Updating Firmware; General Firmware Update Guidelines - Nvidia DGX-2 SYSTEM User Manual

UPDATING FIRMWARE

This section provides instructions for updating firmware for the NVIDIA® DGX server
BIOS and BMC using a Docker container.

GENERAL FIRMWARE UPDATE GUIDELINES

Before updating the firmware, do the following to prevent corrupting the firmware
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due to a system crash or disruption to the update process.
Ensure the system is healthy
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Stop system activities
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Do not terminate the firmware update console while updating the firmware.
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Component firmware corruption may occur if the update process is interrupted.
Certain components, such as the system BIOS, require a system reboot for the new
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firmware to take effect.
Reboot the system if prompted.
When updating the BMC firmware, system management services are shut down first
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to allow the update to occur. Consequently, system management is not available
during the BMC update.
In the event of a firmware update failure, run nvsm dump health and then send
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the resulting archive containing the output to NVIDIA Enterprise Support
(https://nvid.nvidia.com/dashboard/) for failure analysis.
Do not attempt any further firmware updates until the issue is resolved or cleared
by NVIDIA Enterprise Support.
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