Users Guide

• Connect to the iDRAC GUI.

NOTE: For information about configuring and accessing the iDRAC GUI see iDRAC Quick Starrt

Guide at dell.com/support/home.

4. Mount the Dell Nautilus ISO or the USB key to the system using virtual media.

5. While restarting the server, press F11 for BIOS boot manager.

6. From the list, select EFI Boot Manager.

7. From the EFI boot list, select Virtual CD or the USB drive.

8. To update drive firmware, click Update Firmware.

NOTE: Dell Nautilus updates all HDD and SSD firmware for all HDDs and SSDs connected to the

system (both front and rear).

Updating LSI 9207-8i HBA

ESXi hypervisor

1. From VMware vSphere Web Client or the GUI, turn off the Controller Virtual Machine (CVM) and all

the guest virtual machines (VMs) on the host that have the LSI 9207-8i HBA that you want to update.

2. Use the VMware vSphere Web Client to complete the on-screen instructions to put the host in

Maintenance Mode.

3. To disable DirectPath I/O of the LSI 9207-8i HBA, do the following:

a. On the vCenter Host Management page, click Manage, and from the list select PCI Devices.

b. In the DirectPath I/O PCI Devices table, right-click LSI Logic/Symbios Logic, and then click Edit.

c. Clear the LSI Logic/Symbios Logic check box from the list and click OK.

4. Restart the system.

5. After the system restarts, install LSI SAS2Flash Utility and the firmware binary on the system by doing

the following:

a. Download LSI SAS2Flash Utility and the firmware from the LSI website.

b. Using SCP, copy the files to the ESXi host.

c. Log in to the ESXi host by using SSH.

d. Expand the SAS2Flash and firmware compressed file.

e. To install SAS2Flash, at the command line interface (CLI), enter esxcli software vib

install –force –v <

full path to file.vib>.

6. Update the LSI firmware by running the following commands:

a. To enable the mpt2sas driver, at the CLI, enter esxcfg-module -e mpt2sas.

b. To run LSI SAS2Flash to list the controllers on the system, at the CLI, enter /opt/lsi/bin/

sas2flash –list

NOTE: By default, the controller number is 0.

c. To upgrade by using SAS2Flash and the firmware binary extracted earlier, at the CLI,

enter

/opt/lsi/bin/sas2flash -c <controller number> -f <path to firmware

binary>.

d. To disable the mpt2sas driver, at the CLI, enter esxcfg-module -d mpt2sas.

7. Reenable DirectPath I/O for the LSI 9207-8i HBA by doing the following:

a. On the vCenter Host Management page, click Manage, and then select PCI Devices from the list.

b. In the DirectPath I/O PCI Devices table, right-click LSI Logic/Symbios Logic, and then click Edit.

c. Select the LSI Logic/Symbios Logic option from the list and click OK.