Users Guide

When upgrading or downgrading some iDRAC firmware
versions using OMIVV, even when the actual firmware
update is successful, OMIVV may indicate that the job is
failed.
During firmware update, when you downgrade or upgrade the iDRAC versions such as 3.20.20.20, 3.21.21.21, and 3.21.21.22, the job status
is indicated as failed even when the job was successfully run.
Resolution: Refresh the inventory after the job failure and rerun the job for other components.
Version Affected: 4.3
The deployment job fails when a server is in the UEFI mode
and Secure boot feature is enabled
When the target sever is in UEFI mode and its secure boot feature is enabled, the deployment job on that server is unsuccessful.
Resolution: Even if the OS deployment job has failed, the device or server-side hypervisor would have got updated. Therefore, manually
add the host IP and manage the server.
Version Affected: 4.3
Configuring the System Lockdown mode at a cluster level
sometimes displays a message "No hosts under the cluster
has successful inventory"
Configuring the System Lockdown mode at a cluster level sometimes displays a message "No hosts under the cluster has successful
inventory". This message is displayed even when the cluster has successfully inventoried the 14G hosts that are managed by OMIVV.
Resolution: Reboot the vCenter.
To reboot the vCenter, do the following:
1. Log in to the vSphere Web Client with a vCenter Single Sign-on Administrator account.
2. Go to Administration > Deployment > Deployment > System Configuration.
3. Click Nodes, select the vCenter Server Appliance node and click the Related Objects tab.
4. Reboot the vCenter node.
Sometimes post RPM upgrade of OMIVV appliance,
multiple entries in the logs are seen in vCenter Recent
Tasks
Sometimes, after RPM upgrade, multiple entries are displayed in logs when viewed on vCenter Recent Tasks.
Resolution: Restart the vCenter services.
Version Affected: 4.3
Bare-metal deployment issues
This section deals with issues found during the deployment process.
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