[OmniOS-discuss] [smartos-discuss] Re: Supermicro IPMI based BIOS update

[Alain O'Dea]

On Dec 12, 2013, at 2:24, "Paul B. Henson" <henson at acm.org> wrote:

>> From: Keith Wesolowski [mailto:keith.wesolowski at joyent.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 9:01 AM
>> 
>> My perspective on this is that being able to upgrade firmware over the
>> LAN interface is an essential manageability feature.
> 
> I don't know if I want to call them "higher end", or "brand name", but for
> the most part all of my servers from Sun or IBM have had this functionality,
> other than occasionally needing to boot an ISO image to update RAID
> controller firmware.

The SOL included in iDRAC7 (with or without the Enterprise license) lets you configure BIOS settings with an XML file on an NFS share:
http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/b/techcenter/archive/2013/01/04/idrac7-now-support-configuring-server-idrac-bios-perc-and-nic-using-xml-file-and-racadm.aspx

> 
>> What's even more obnoxious is that it's usually impossible to preserve
>> settings across a firmware upgrade, and that there's generally no way to
>> export or import settings or set them noninteractively.
> 
> Yah, BIOS sucks :(.
> 
>> Very much appreciate everyone out there fighting the good fight on this
>> stuff.  When you win, we all win!
> 
> I think you guys have more clout with at least supermicro than most if not
> everybody else on this list ;), maybe you could give your sales rep a good
> smack about the ridiculousness of trying to nickel and dime customers for
> this IPMI feature :).
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