Update Cloudlab R6515 node firmware
A retrospective issue that I have already taken care of, but put in here for the record...
After the motherboard was replaced in amd009
it had significantly newer firmware than the other R6515 nodes. This inspired me to upgrade the other 27 nodes for three reasons:
- Most importantly, I had seen in the release notes for the Mellanox 100Gb firmware that it fixed a problem with the NIC disappearing at boot time, something we have seen a number of times with these nodes.
- So that all nodes were running the same revisions of everything.
- To "Get back on the horse". I suspect that I bricked
amd009
while updating its firmware, probably in the wrong order. I wanted to make sure I could do it correctly.
The undate included the iDRAC, CPLD (low-level "microcode" which I probably screwed up on amd009
), BIOS, SSD, and three flavors of NIC firmware.