Dell PowerEdge XR4000w Installation and Service Manual

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Updating Witness DOSA-W: ESXi

The DOSA-W update packages are provided as ESXi VIB files.

Deployment of the DOSA-W on ESXi requires installation of both the DOSA-W daemon and the ACPI GPIO drivers.

NOTE:The XR4000w does not have a dedicated iDRAC interface. All references to iDRAC in this document are from the standpoint of the iDRAC interface that is on any of the installed XR4510c or XR4520c compute sleds.
  1. Copy both the VIB packages (daemon and driver) to the Witness ESXi host under the following directory:

    /var/log/vmware/

  2. Package installation is performed with the following command in the ESXi shell:

    esxcli software vib install -d /var/log/vmware/<package.zip>

    Load the GPIO package first, then load the DOSA package

  3. In ESXi host’s /bootbank/boot.cfg:

    kernelopt=autoPartition=FALSE text nofb com2_baud=115200 com2_Port=0xe030 tty3Port=com2 gdbPort=none logPort=none

  4. Reboot the witness host.
    NOTE:The witness host must be rebooted after these steps to enable the display of IP addresses in iDRAC interfaces of the sleds.
  5. Repeat the above steps and confirm the parameter from /bookbank/boot.cfg
    NOTE: If the parameter is not saved as mentioned in the steps above, copy the parameter again and save the file, and then reboot the Witness sled.
  6. Repeat the above steps and double check the parameter from /bookbank/boot.cfg
  7. If the parameter saved shows as expected, then check the Witness IP from iDrac GUI, system, Witness sled and Witness IP should be available.

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