Tuesday, 23 July 2013

Dell M1000e IOM firmware fails from CMC GUI

When trying to update the IOM firmware from the CMC GUI you see the error below. I tried pulling the standby CMC and vice-versa but this did not work either.


Fix:

 Connect to the CMC management IP address via putty over SSH, and issue this command.

 racadm fwupdate -s -m all

This should list all the modules that require a firmware update.

racadm fwupdate -u -m iominf-1

 The command above will update the IOM is A1, so you will need to repeat this if you have more IOMs, changing the last digit. Be warned this command will reboot the switch!



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2 comments:

  1. Unknown26 February 2014 at 02:55

    Thanks for this! Was having this same issue.

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  2. Ronaldo14 April 2014 at 15:21

    I did this steps and yet you continue with the below error
    Welcome to the CMC firmware version 4.50.A00.201311120922

    $ racadm fwupdate -s -m all
    cmc-active Ready for firmware update
    cmc-standby Ready for firmware update
    kvm Ready for firmware update
    server-1 Ready for firmware update
    server-2 Ready for firmware update
    server-9 Ready for firmware update
    server-10 Ready for firmware update
    iominf-2 Firmware update operation failed.

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