@jesse_b updating the iDRAC firmware, or using iDRAC to update system firmware? It’s been a decode or so since I last touched an iDRAC, but it went smoothly back then. Nowadays as I understand it system firmware is handled by LVFS on most Dell servers anyway.
@AdamLedger I saw that once too, I think it just installs it but write the config file for it with your choice (which is "no" in this case). I don't recall the exact syntax inside though, so this may not be that
I only noticed this on older Debian though, so this may not apply in the recent versions
They probably did that just in case people change their minds and write to the config file/or use the needed command to say "yes".
@StephenKitt sort of both. using idrac to update it's own firmware. I've noticed it's incredibly slow to write the new firmware file when trying to update. Updating bios or nic firmware doesn't seem to suffer the same issue. Granted most bios firmware files are around 20MB where the idrac firmware is around 120MB but it's not proportionately slower.
It can take 45 min+ to upload the idrac firmware to the machine and that seems to not be affected by connection. Whether I do it from my home machine (with a 20Mbps up bandwidth) or from a machine local in the datacenter it still takes around the same time. The BIOS firmware will upload within a minute either way
The issue has also been consistent across thousands of servers and dozens of datacenters
I wonder if there's a misconfiguration of the idrac networking (either on the idracs or along their network path); maybe they've negotiated down to 100 Mb or such?
I can't say I've timed the updates I've done -- they're all slow enough for me to multi-task away.
I'm not sure but we have been getting batches about as quickly as dell can supply them from pretty much every continent so there would be multiple different batches experiencing the same issue
Don't get me wrong, I love some scripting, but once you've got more than one model or $card in the environment, it's nice to punt all the special cases up to OME