Just wanted to share with the community a time-saving piece of information..
We recently bought a number of PowerEdge R6525 with iDRAC9
iDRAC9 version:
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Device Type 15G Monolithic
Hardware Version 0.01
Firmware Version 5.00.20.00
BIOS Version
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2.5.6
That's what we had to change in the iDRAC9 GUI to make it play along with xCAT:
Configuration -> BIOS Settings -> Serial Communication -> Serial Communication
-> On with Console Redirection
iDRAC Settings -> Connectivity -> Serial Over Lan -> Enable Serial Over LAN ->
ENABLED (this will enable ipmitool -I lanplus. Without it only ipmitool -I open
works)
Configuration -> BIOS Settings -> Network Settings -> PXE Device1 -> ENABLED
(there are 4 devices there, and you need to have at least one of them enabled)
Configuration -> BIOS Settings -> Network Settings -> PXE Device1 Settings ->
Embedded NIC 1 PORT 1 Partition 1 ("Embedded NIC" is the onboard gigabit port.
There are two of them, and if you connect the second one, your selection should
be "Embedded NIC 2 PORT 1 Partition 1 " )
Hit Apply in every section where you make the change.
Once all Applied, hit "Apply And Reboot" or "At Next Reboot" at the bottom of
the page.
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Hope this helps somebody
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