Thanks James. I think you hit on another issue. The fixes available may not be the last ones. More may come. Requiring additional service impacting maintenance windows.
I believe there was also rumour of a Microsoft patch that broke things and people needed to rush to fix that. I think with my limited understanding of the issues, we're going to focus on inventorying things first (makes sense) and wait a bit before applying to ensure we got them all. Thanks so much everyone. Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 10, 2018, at 10:45 PM, James Andrewartha <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi Lelio, > >> On 11/01/18 01:10, Lelio Fulgenzi wrote: >> Ok. one last question (for now) >> >> Why BIOS updates for C Series servers? >> >> What do those updates address? >> >> The CIMC application? Or more? > > I believe (but haven't done heaps of research) is that the BIOS updates > contain microcode (firmware for the CPU) updates, that with OS updates > mitigate spectre: https://access.redhat.com/articles/3311301 > > There will be more microcode updates coming, which again might also need > OS updates to be fully effective. > > Thanks > > -- > James Andrewartha > Network & Projects Engineer > Christ Church Grammar School > Claremont, Western Australia > Ph. (08) 9442 1757 > Mob. 0424 160 877 _______________________________________________ cisco-voip mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip
