We have a video on our education blog that details the manual process to upgrade the BMC and BIOS of your Nutanix NX nodes.
Take a look and let us know what you think, also, if you have an idea for a video you would like produced, add your comments in this thread.
How to Manually Upgrade the BMC & BIOS - video link [go]
How to Manually Upgrade the BMC & BIOS
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Please create video performing simple way to configure br0 to specific NIC on AHV
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I would also like to see this.
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When is 4.7.3 available ?
Waiting for 4.7.3 then will upgrade.
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
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
well-made guide !!
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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.
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Acropolis File Services
VM Build Automation in Nutanix
Capacity Planning in Nutanix
VM Build Automation in Nutanix
Capacity Planning in Nutanix
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Excellent tutorial. Please keep these coming with more advanced and indepth materials.
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If I never set up ipmi settings at the outset, what would the defaults be...or how do I set and change?
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
http://nutanixbible.com/#anchor-networking-106
https://portal.nutanix.com/#/page/docs/details?targetId=AHV_Admin-AHV_v4_7:AHV_Admin-AHV_v4_7
fcsallan There is a document called "Best practices on AHV" and I think this could be a good idea for you to have it a quick view and deep dive into AHV networking as well as other Nutanix recommendations for setting up with AHV blocks
https://portal.nutanix.com/#/page/solutions/details?targetId=BP-2029_AHV:BP-2029_AHV
https://portal.nutanix.com/#/page/solutions/details?targetId=BP-2029_AHV:BP-2029_AHV
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I want to see how it willbe dooing
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waiting for the latest update
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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.
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!
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Great video walkthrough, showed a business contact to educate them in the ease of use. They loved it.
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Likewise
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Very useful,easy to understand
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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.
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.
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Create a video about protection domains
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.
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