Change Management - Dell PowerEdge System Management Manual

SNMP Platform Event Traps (PETs) are generated using IPMI for
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hardware events. These traps are generated by the DRAC and
delivered through the DRAC network interface.
2 Virtual Machine Operations Alerts:
For virtual machine operations such as VM power-on and VM power-
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off, SNMP traps are generated. These traps are generated by the ESXi
software and delivered through the ESXi Management Network.

Change Management

Dell System Build and Update Utility (SBUU) provides a utility to perform
BIOS and firmware updates on the server. SBUU is a bootable CD that ships
with every PowerEdge server. The latest ISO image can be downloaded from
support.dell.com. The PE server can be booted with SBUU, which has
options to update the BIOS and firmware. The actual update files are
available in Server Update Utility (SUU) DVD, which can be downloaded
from support.dell.com.
To perform BIOS and firmware updates to VMware ESXi using SBUU:
1 Migrate the VMs running on the server that requires update to another
server using VMware VMotion technology. When VMotion is not
configured, either power off the VMs or suspend the VMs as appropriate
and perform a cold migration.
2 Shutdown the ESXi using VI Client or through the terminal user interface.
3 Boot the server using the bootable SBUU media.
4 Select the option to update the firmware and follow the wizard. Insert the
SUU DVD when required and perform the updates.
5 Once the server is updated, reboot the server to ESXi.
The VMs can now be powered on or migrated back to this server.
BIOS and firmware updates can also be downloaded from support.dell.com
as individual files. To perform the update, download the file and copy the
contents to a DOS-bootable diskette. Boot the server from the diskette and
run the update program.
Using IT Assistant to install the BIOS and firmware updates to PowerEdge
servers running VMware ESXi software is not supported.
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