How to Manually Upgrade the BMC & BIOS

Please create video performing simple way to configure br0 to specific NIC on AHV

When is 4.7.3 available ?

Here's some interesting video topics that would useful:

1. Metro Clustering
2. Acropolis File Services
3. ESXi to AHV Migration (vice-versa)
4. VM Build Automation in Nutanix
5. Capacity Planning in Nutanix

I'd mention that Java is an utter pain and it's worth checking security settings that stop it from running some of the items in the video correctly.

Excellent tutorial. Please keep these coming with more advanced and indepth materials.

There needs to be better descriptions of Network concepts in AHV. It took me quite a while to understand the VLAN concepts because of the simplistic docs and descriptions. Had I realized that the default VLAN 0 was always assumed for local hardware it was easy to get the systems up and running.

fcsallan hope some of these doc will add more info for your needs
http://nutanixbible.com/#anchor-networking-106
https://portal.nutanix.com/#/page/docs/details?targetId=AHV_Admin-AHV_v4_7:AHV_Admin-AHV_v4_7

I want to see how it willbe dooing

Thanks bezeddin - managed to change the IPMI addresses across my nodes successfully today and have now upgraded the BMC and BIOS as per Field Advisory #43

Just waiting now for the IPMI IP address to update in Prism. Seems to have for 2 out of 3 nodes. Remaining node still says 0.0.0.0 - but will wait until everything is shutdown and restarted.

Would love to see the BMC added into the auto upgrade process!

Likewise

The tutorial is very clear. I didn't know that you first need to update the BMC and reset your management Before updating the BIOS.

I have done this earlier within our Dell XC host. Here in the Idrac I was able to put the BIOS update in a Queue, waiting for the next reboot. So the only thing I need to do was to check the cluster status, data resiliency and the Casandra ring. Put the ESX host in maintenance and shutdown the CVM trough command line (#cvm_shutdown –P now).
Reboot host, and everything went back up :)

If a CMV is running again, and you want to see what the status is of all the starting services. You could use this command: #watch genesis status
Here you get a list to see if every services is getting a Process ID, except foundation off course.

Did this many times with support when we discovered and finally patched the Bios for the G4 Haswell bug. Unfortunately we were one of the firsts to find it.