Fairly simple to update the vCenter Server Appliance, but I had a bit of hunting to track it down myself. Main point is to connect to your VCSA on port 5480. Authentication is using your root account not the SSO one.
As always, be sure to take a backup before you do this.
Once signed in, click Update, Check for Updates. Check Repository (note that VCSA will need internet connectivity for this).
Then under available updates, click install updates, install all updates, and reboot when prompted.
As mentioned in the previous post, I recently acquired an R710 as part of a homelab buildout. I’ve now spent the best part of a day trying to figure out why the Lifecycle Controller stopped working, after it updated the BIOS. I don’t particularily need it, but I know if I ignore it something will come back to bite me when I least expect it.
The one clue (after trying multiple Repair images) was that when the BIOS was booting it had a blank rev. e.g. under the Dell logo there was “BIOS Rev. ” and a blank space. Much google-fu later and it turns out that this generally happens if you try and jump too many BIOS revisions at once.
Since the upgrade was done by the Lifecycle Controller, and was from 6.0.4 -> 6.4.0 I didn’t expect this to be an issue, but there you go. The process to recover is actually fairly straightforward when you know how, and in fairness to Dell they have a huge amount of great information in their forums.
This is just the short and quick version of how to fix.
14/03/2017 22:24 1,631,701 R710-060007C.exe 14/03/2017 22:23 1,633,695 R710-060100C.exe 14/03/2017 22:23 1,650,371 R710-060203C.exe 14/03/2017 22:24 1,650,583 R710-060300C.exe 14/03/2017 22:22 1,653,153 R710-060400C.exe
NOTE: You might want to rename them to fit in DOS’ 8.3 filename limitation unless you like to try and guess what the ~ are hiding
At this point the Lifecycle Controller should come up and you can use it for the remainder of your platform/firmware updates
