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VEP4600 Operating System Installation Guide
January 2020

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  • Page 1 VEP4600 Operating System Installation Guide January 2020...
  • Page 2 Notes, cautions, and warnings NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of your product. CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates either potential damage to hardware or loss of data and tells you how to avoid the problem. WARNING: A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage, personal injury, or death.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Run the Unified Firmware Updater from a Linux server....................23 7 Upgrade rNDC Firmware workaround................... 27 Upgrade rNDC firmware when ESXi is running on VEP4600..................27 Upgrade rNDC firmware when CentOS is running on VEP4600.................. 27 8 Prepare bootable USB with OS ISO image..................31 Prepare bootable USB................................. 31 Download Rufus...................................
  • Page 4 11 Configure BIOS and Install Adva OS.................... 60 Configure BIOS to boot from USB............................60 ADVA OS Installation................................61 Configure BIOS to boot from SSD............................ 63 12 Configure BIOS and Install ESXi OS.................... 66 Configure BIOS to boot from USB............................66 Install ESXi OS..................................69 Configure BIOS to boot from SSD............................

  • Page 5: Vep4600 Overview

    VEP4600 Setup Guide • uCPE Networking DIAG OS Guide This document describes the steps for OS installation on VEP4600 device. The OS installation steps are tested and verified on VEP4600 device with the OS versions listed below. • DiagOS image: diagos-recovery-x86_64-dellemc_vep4600_d21xyt-r0.3.41.3.81-6.iso •...

  • Page 6: Vep4600 Start Up And Serial Console Connection

    VEP4600 start up and serial console connection 1. On a laptop connected to the VEP4600, bring up Windows Device Manager to get the COM port. Windows Device Manager It’s the USB Serial Port drive in this case for our USB to serial console adapter. The COM port number is 4.
  • Page 7 3. Plug in a power cord to the back of VEP4600. It starts to power up immediately. Watch for VEP4600 console window. VEP4600 console window VEP4600 start up and serial console connection...
  • Page 8 4. Press the Delete button until the Press <DEL> … string displays on the console window. Console window NOTE: If you miss the setup screen, a boot up screen displays. If this happens, power cycle the VEP4600 and press the Delete button. Repeat the process until you see the setup screen. Setup screen...
  • Page 9 VEP4600 start up and serial console connection...

  • Page 10: Vep4600 Configuration Guidelines

    Types of VEP4600 with pre-installed OS from manufacturing • Guidelines for upgrading VEP4600 based on manufacturing configuration This section describes the steps to take to complete the VEP4600 configuration. The VEP4600 will arrive from manufacturing with one of the following configurations. •...

  • Page 11: Update To The Latest Diagos

    Update to the Latest DiagOS This section describes the steps to take to update the DiagOS if your VEP4600 arrived from Dell with the DiagOS as the only operating system. Updating the DiagOS is required prior to updating any other firmware.
  • Page 12 2. Select UEFI: then USB Device: to boot the DIAG OS from a USB drive. DIAG OS USB to boot UEFI DIAG OS USB to boot USB device 3. Verify that Boot Option 1 lists the DIAG OS USB as the boot option. Boot Option 1 Update to the Latest DiagOS...

  • Page 13: Diagos Installation

    4. Press the F4 key to Save the changes and exit the utility. Save and Exit prompt 5. Confirm saving the configuration by selecting Yes and press Enter. 6. The system will boot from the USB and start the installation. DiagOS Installation 1. Select VEP4600 DiagOS Install. Update to the Latest DiagOS...

  • Page 14: Configure Bios And Boot Into Diagos

    2. DiagOS starts Installing. 3. After the DIAG OS installation completes, DiagOS will reboot automatically. 4. When the machine reboots, remove the USB. Configure BIOS and boot into DiagOS 1. Boot into the BIOS settings again. 2. Select Boot Option number 1 from the Boot configuration screen, to select boot from DIAG OS on the hard disk. Boot configuration screen 3.

  • Page 15: Update To The Latest Diagtools

    5. The system will boot into the Diag OS and the login command prompt displays. 6. To login, type root/calvin. Update to the latest DiagTools 1. Check the Diag Tool version using dpkg --list| grep dn-diags-vep4600.deb DiagTool Version Update to the Latest DiagOS...
  • Page 16 Diag Tools will contain some file in /opt/dellemc. Remove dellemc file so that no other files exist. 4. Use dpkg -i dn-diags-VEP4600-DiagOS-3.41.4.81-17.deb to install the Diag Tools. Installing Latest DiagTools 5. Verify the latest Diag Tools is running: dpkg –list | grep dn-diags-VEP4600.deb Update to the Latest DiagOS...

  • Page 17: Upgrade Firmware Through Diagos

    Upgrade Firmware through DiagOS This section describes the steps to take to upgrade the VEP4600’s firmware if your VEP4600 arrived from Dell with the DiagOS as the only operating system. The Unified Firmware Updater will need to be copied to a USB and run from the mounted USB.

  • Page 18: Mount_Usb_On_The_Vep4600

    Run the command mount /dev/sdb /mnt/usb 3. The USB can take a different device name, but usually VEP4600 DIAG OS assigns sdb for the USB. If you run fdisk -l the USB is usually one of the last drives in the list.
  • Page 19 ****************************** * BIOS version = 3.41.0.9-13 * ****************************** updating primary image only.. BIOS image is ./VEP4600-BIOS-3.41.0.x-xx.BIN INFO: Yafu INI Configuration File not found... Default options will not be applied... Creating IPMI session via USB...Done ------------------------------------------------- YAFUFlash - Firmware Upgrade Utility (Version 4.11x.x) ------------------------------------------------- (C)Copyright 2016, American Megatrends Inc.
  • Page 20 CPLD image: XxXX Wifi CPLD image: XxX Note:If BMC version is less than 1.23 CPLD versions will not be shown correctly 1. Automatically update all firmware components 2. BMC image[Primary version:x.x, backup version:1.23] 3. BIOS image[Booted version: 3.41.0.x-xx] 4. CPLD image[CPLD version: XxXX] 5.

  • Page 21: Upgrade Firmware Through Bmc

    Upgrade Firmware through BMC This section describes the steps to take to upgrade the VEP4600’s firmware if your VEP4600 arrived from Dell with the DiagOS as the only operating system. Topics: • Check the existing firmware version • Configure BMC Management Address in BIOS •...
  • Page 22 3. Move cursor down to highlight, Configuration address source and press Enter. Select Static. 4. Use Ctrl-h to clear the fields and enter your BMC ip address, Subnet mask and Router IP address (gateway address). Select Static 5. Press the F4 key to Save the changes and exit the utility. 6.

  • Page 23: Configure Bmc Management Address On Bmc Console

    Run the Unified Firmware Updater from a Linux server 1. Deploy a Linux OS (CentOS, RedHat, Ubuntu) that connects to the VEP4600 BMC network. Can be a VM based Linux server. 2. Verify you can reach the BMC ip address with ipmitool: test@LinuxVM:~/UFW$ ipmitool -I lanplus -H xxx.xx.xx.xxx -U admin -P admin power status...
  • Page 24 firmware_updater/x710/XD56X.txt...
  • Page 25 firmware_updater/diag/zlib1g-dev_1%3a1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1_amd64.deb firmware_updater/diag/libssl-doc_1.0.1t-1+deb8u6_all.deb firmware_updater/Yafuflash ~/UFW/temp ~/UFW/temp Package version: x.x Packaged images: BMC image: BIOS image: x.xx.x.x-xx CPLD image: XxXX Wifi CPLD image: XxX Note:If BMC version is less than 1.23 CPLD versions will not be shown correctly 1. Automatically update all firmware components 2.
  • Page 26 ****************************** * BIOS version = 3.41.0.9-12 * ****************************** updating primary image only.. BIOS image is ./VEP4600-BIOS-3.41.0.9-15.BIN INFO: Yafu INI Configuration File not found... Default options will not be applied... Creating IPMI session via network with address xxx.xx.xxx.xxx...Done ------------------------------------------------- YAFUFlash - Firmware Upgrade Utility (Version 4.112.0) ------------------------------------------------- (C)Copyright 2016, American Megatrends Inc.

  • Page 27: Upgrade Rndc Firmware Workaround

    Upgrade rNDC Firmware workaround This section describes the steps to take to upgrade the VEP4600’s firmware if your VEP4600 arrived from Dell with the DiagOS as the only operating system. Topics: • Upgrade rNDC firmware when ESXi is running on VEP4600 •...
  • Page 28 5. cd to /rNDC directory and look for these two files: a) BootIMG.flb – uncompressed firmware b) Nvmupdate64e – utility to load firmware 6. Run nvmupdate64e and it will show all Intel NICs that are in the VEP4600 Example output: root@vep0046-fvqqg02:~# cd rNDC root@vep0046-fvqqg02:~/rNDC# ./nvmupdate64e...
  • Page 29 7. The device will reboot. 8. Commands to confirm the firmware was updated: [root@localhost]# ip addr 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000 link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 ::1/128 scope host valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 2: enp2s0f0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP>...
  • Page 30 expansion-rom-version: bus-info: 0000:65:00.0 supports-statistics: yes supports-test: yes supports-eeprom-access: yes supports-register-dump: yes supports-priv-flags: yes Optional commands: [root@localhost]# rmmod i40e -- (command to remove module) [root@localhost]# modprobe i40e – (command to add module) Upgrade rNDC Firmware workaround...

  • Page 31: Prepare Bootable Usb With Os Iso Image

    Prepare bootable USB with OS ISO image This section describes the how to prepare a USB key to install the operating system of your choice. For this procedure, you need a bootable USB. On a Windows CPU, use Rufus to burn the bootable USB. Topics: •...
  • Page 32 3. Navigate to the ISO file and click to select the file. Select ISO file 4. Verify that the file name selected displays at the bottom of the Rufus device dialog box. Prepare bootable USB with OS ISO image...
  • Page 33 Rufus device dialog box NOTE: Use the same process to burn a USB with Ubuntu, Adva and ESXi ISO images. Prepare bootable USB with OS ISO image...

  • Page 34: Configure Bios And Install Rhel Os

    Configure BIOS to boot from SSD Configure BIOS to Boot From USB 1. Boot the VEP4600 into the BIOS and tab to the Boot menu. For more information on how to access the BIOS, see VEP4600 Start up and serial console.

  • Page 35: Install Red Hat Os

    6. Select Red Hat OS USB as the first option. 7. Press the F4 key to Save the changes and exit the utility. 8. Confirm saving the configuration by selecting Yes and press Enter. 9. The system will now boot from the USB. Install Red Hat OS 1.
  • Page 36 2. Type e to edit the installation menu entry. 3. Attach the console=ttyS0,115200 string to the end of the first install line. 4. Press ctrl-x to start the installation. 5. Select 4 for Software selection. Installation wizard 6. Select Minimal Install from the options. Configure BIOS and Install RHEL OS...
  • Page 37 7. Configure the disk destination for the installation by entering 5 and enter 1 for hard drive, then enter c to continue. Configure Installation Destination 8. Enter 3 to Use Free Space, then enter c to continue. CAUTION: You must select this option. If you do not select this option, the Red Hat OS deletes the DIAG OS. Configure BIOS and Install RHEL OS...
  • Page 38 9. Enter 3 to select LVM, then enter c to continue. 10. Enter 2 to configure the Time settings. Configure BIOS and Install RHEL OS...
  • Page 39 11. Enter 9 to configure User creation. 12. Optionally, configure the root password. Configure BIOS and Install RHEL OS...
  • Page 40 Configure BIOS and Install RHEL OS...
  • Page 41 Configure BIOS and Install RHEL OS...
  • Page 42 13. Select 7 for network configuration of management interface. Configure Network interface 14. And assign IPV4, netmask, gateway, name server as per network setup. Setting IP, subnet mask, nameserver Configure BIOS and Install RHEL OS...

  • Page 43: Start Red Hat Os Installation

    Network configuration complete Start Red Hat OS installation 1. Enter b to start the installation. Start installation Configure BIOS and Install RHEL OS...
  • Page 44 2. The installation process begins. Configure BIOS and Install RHEL OS...
  • Page 45 3. Remove the USB and press Return to reboot the system after the installation completes. Configure BIOS and Install RHEL OS...

  • Page 46: Configure Bios To Boot From Ssd

    Configure BIOS to boot from SSD 1. Boot up the VEP4600 and navigate to the BIOS settings. 2. Navigate to Boot Tab. Scroll to Hard Disk Drive BBS Priorities using the up and down arrow keys and press Enter. 3. Select Red Hat Boot Manager as Boot Option #1.
  • Page 47 5. Traverse to Save & Exit tab and hit enter on Save Changes and Exit. SelectYes to start reboot. Red Hat 7.5 boot screen 6. Enter the user credentials and verify. Configure BIOS and Install RHEL OS...
  • Page 48 7. Enter the root credentials and verify. Configure BIOS and Install RHEL OS...

  • Page 49: Configure Bios And Install Ubuntu Os

    Configure BIOS and Install Ubuntu OS Topics: • Configure BIOS to boot from USB • Ubuntu OS installation • Configure BIOS to boot from SSD Configure BIOS to boot from USB 1. Boot into BIOS settings, select CSM configuration under Advanced Tab. 2.
  • Page 50 3. Go to the Boot tab. 4. Under Boot Option #1, press Enter and select USB . Configure BIOS and Install Ubuntu OS...
  • Page 51 5. If you don’t see required USB boot, go down to UEFI USB Drive BBS Priorities and press Enter. 6. Make sure the required USB is selected. Configure BIOS and Install Ubuntu OS...

  • Page 52: Ubuntu Os Installation

    7. Press the F4 key to save the changes and exit the utility. 8. Confirm saving the configuration by selecting Yes and press Enter. 9. The system will boot from the USB and start the installation. Ubuntu OS installation 1. Boot into Ubuntu GRUB menu. Highlight Install Ubuntu Server option Configure BIOS and Install Ubuntu OS...
  • Page 53 2. Type e and Add console=ttyS0,115200 string as shown in the following figure. Edit Boot Entry 3. Press ctrl-x to start the installation. 4. Choose Preferred Language (In this case, preferred language selection is English) 5. Select Done. 6. Select Install Ubuntu. Configure BIOS and Install Ubuntu OS...
  • Page 54 7. Scroll up/down to select management network interface accordingly (In this case, enp4s0 is selected as management interface of the VEP4600 device) 8. Follow the installation wizard to complete interface configuration (In this case, choose Edit IPv4 from the list to modify Interface configuration for static IP assignment).
  • Page 55 Applying network configuration 11. Click Done. Proxy address 12. Click Done. 13. Select Use Entire Disk and Set Up LVM or follow the installation wizard for different configuration options. Configure BIOS and Install Ubuntu OS...
  • Page 56 14. Select Hard Drive. 15. Click Done to continue the selected disk partition format. 16. Select Continue to start the installation. Configure BIOS and Install Ubuntu OS...
  • Page 57 17. Enter your profile information and choose Done. 18. Click Done to start the installation. 19. After Installation completes, remove the USB from the device. 20. Choose Reboot Now. Installation complete Configure BIOS and Install Ubuntu OS...

  • Page 58: Configure Bios To Boot From Ssd

    Configure BIOS to boot from SSD 1. Change the Boot Option Priority to Ubuntu Hard Drive in the Boot Tab. Select Ubuntu Hard Drive 2. Save and Exit Configure BIOS and Install Ubuntu OS...
  • Page 59 Boot up screen Configure BIOS and Install Ubuntu OS...

  • Page 60: Configure Bios And Install Adva Os

    Configure BIOS and Install Adva OS Configure BIOS settings required for Adva (UEFI and Legacy) Topics: • Configure BIOS to boot from USB • ADVA OS Installation • Configure BIOS to boot from SSD Configure BIOS to boot from USB 1.

  • Page 61: Adva Os Installation

    Select USB 5. Press the F4 key to Save the changes and exit the utility. 6. Confirm saving the configuration by selecting Yes and press Enter. 7. The system will boot from the USB and start the installation. ADVA OS Installation 1.
  • Page 62 Disk formatting and installation complete successfully Power down prompt Configure BIOS and Install Adva OS...

  • Page 63: Configure Bios To Boot From Ssd

    2. Remove the USB and start up the system. NOTE: User required to power on/off device either physically or by using PDU. Configure BIOS to boot from SSD 1. After the install completes, reboot the system and go into the BIOS settings. 2.
  • Page 64 4. Press the F4 key to Save the changes and exit the utility. 5. Confirm saving the configuration by selecting Yes and press Enter. 6. The system will boot from the hard drive. Configure BIOS and Install Adva OS...
  • Page 65 7. Login to the ADVA OS (with username as root and password as overture) Configure BIOS and Install Adva OS...

  • Page 66: Configure Bios And Install Esxi Os

    Configure BIOS and Install ESXi OS Topics: • Configure BIOS to boot from USB • Install ESXi OS • Configure BIOS to boot from SSD • Logging into ESXi • Configuring the network on ESXi • How to add ESXi license Configure BIOS to boot from USB 1.
  • Page 67 2. Enable Hyper-Threading a) Tab to Socket Configuration, press Enter on Processor Configuration b) Scroll down to Hyper-Threading, press Enter and select Enable. Configure BIOS and Install ESXi OS...
  • Page 68 3. Configure the USB, UEFI:Samsung Flash Drive- 1100, as Boot Option #1 from the Boot Configuration screen, then press Enter to save the changes. 4. Press the F4 key to Save the changes and exit the utility. 5. Confirm saving the configuration by selecting Yes and press Enter. 6.

  • Page 69: Install Esxi Os

    Install ESXi OS 1. Press Enter to continue installation process. 2. Press F11 to Accept and Continue Licence Agreement. Configure BIOS and Install ESXi OS...
  • Page 70 3. Select the keyboard layout option using up down keys and press Enter. 4. Enter Root Password and press Enter 5. Select SSD from the VMware ESXi 6.7.0 screen as the destination disk.. Configure BIOS and Install ESXi OS...
  • Page 71 6. Press F11 to confirm the repartition and installation. 7. Confirm the disk selection by pressing Enter. 8. The ESXi installation status screen displays. 9. Press Enter to reboot after the installation completion screen displays. Configure BIOS and Install ESXi OS...

  • Page 72: Configure Bios To Boot From Ssd

    10. Remove the USB and press Enter to continue. The VEP4600 platform reboots. Configure BIOS to boot from SSD 1. Boot into the BIOS settings and select the Boot menu tab. 2. Configure the hard disk as Boot Option 1.
  • Page 73 1. Login credentials for ESXi will be the VEP4600 Service Tag + !. To get the Service Tag, pull out the luggage tag on the top right corner of the VEP4600 server. The Service Tag can also be found in the BIOS.

  • Page 74: Configuring The Network On Esxi

    Configuring the network on ESXi 1. After booting with ESXi, Press F2 to configure the static network. 2. Select Configure network management from the System Customization screen then press Enter. Configure BIOS and Install ESXi OS...
  • Page 75 3. Select Netork Adapters using the up and down arrow keys from the Configure Management Network screen and press Enter. 4. Select IPv4 Configuration. 5. Select Set Static IPv4 address and network configuration. 6. Select Network Adapter which is connected, and press Enter to save changes. Configure BIOS and Install ESXi OS...

  • Page 76: How To Add Esxi License

    7. Enter the IPv4 Address, Subnet Mask, and Default Gateway configurations in the fields that are provided at the Network Adapters screen then press Enter. 8. Press the Y key to confirm the changes that you made and to restart the management network. 9.
  • Page 77 2. Click Manage from the menu on the left panel. Click on the Licensing tab 3. Enter a valid license and click Check license. Configure BIOS and Install ESXi OS...
  • Page 78 Configure BIOS and Install ESXi OS...

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