With no version number displayed as-would be normal.
This is repeatable, also the BIOS on boot now just says: Updates stated they were successful, so I thought “yay!”, rebooted the host and hit F10 to log into Lifecycle Controller/Universal Server Configurator. So, powering it up, clearly had not been updated in some time (BIOS version 6.0.8, iDRAC6 1.10, Lifecycle Controller 1.2), so I did what any good sysadmin would and download the Dell CentOS Firmware LiveDVD ↗ ( detail ↗), stuck it on a USB and proceeded to pimp it out with all the latest firmwares. Plenty of EMC only line items, still though, same motherboard, iDRAC, etc. So picked up this great deal and my servers arrived promptly, noticing they came in EMC boxes made me very intrigued, haven’t I seen boxes just like this one at work (we run a sizable Avamar grid), open the boxes, lo-and-behold i’m greeted with this familiar sticker:Īnyway, no big deal, we all know EMC Gen3 Avamar nodes are just re-branded Dell R710s ↗, after all just look at the BOM for one of my nodes' service tags: I found an incredible deal on some used Dell R710 servers, so I bought two to bring my collection of these beasts up to 3 so I can run VSAN, NSX, vCloud Director and some other SDDC ↗ tastiness ( VMware VIO ↗ anyone?). I have recently been rebuilding my home lab from scratch (a series of posts on that coming soon), so naturally my first port of call for server hardware was eBay, what self-respecting techie would pay full price for anything…
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