Drive Image 7.03 Update Download: Image and Backup Logical Drives and Partitions

Dell EMC has migrated the latest revision of the Dell EMC customized ESXi image files with customized drivers to the website of VMware. This change aligns with industry-standard practices and brings the Dell EMC-customized image to the same location as that of our competitors. For customers who manage heterogeneous data centers, this simplifies the procurement of software image files because they will all be saved in one location. Visit my.vmware.com license portal or click My VMware Downloads. Older versions of these image files can be downloaded from www.dell.com/support.

Note that customizing the operating system by adding or updating packages may introduce problems when applying an Oracle Exadata System Software update because the non-Oracle software may add new dependencies which will not be provided by the Oracle Exadata System Software update. For this reason it is recommended to stay close to the Exadata Database Machine image and customize as little as possible.

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A channel can be subscribed to by a local non-Exadata database server. Channel content is then downloaded to the local server and the repository is made available as a YUM repository which is used to update Exadata database servers. If no Internet connection is available from the data center or if ULN synchronization is not possible, then a ready-to-use YUM repository can be downloaded as an ISO image.

The mirror server is a separate Linux server that holds the downloaded Exadata software update for Exadata database servers as downloaded from ULN. The Exadata database servers connect to this local mirror (YUM HTTP repository) to retrieve updates.

Do not use an Exadata database server as the local ULN mirror. Doing so may lead to dependency conflicts between the packages required by ULN to construct the repository, and the packages installed or updated on the Exadata database server by the Exadata software update. If no separate server is available, then use the ISO image method instead. See "Downloading the ISO Image as a YUM Repository from My Oracle Support and Passing the Location of the Compressed Image to the Update Utility".

You can download, uncompress, and place the ISO image channel holding the Oracle Exadata software update on a web server that has HTTP connectivity to every Oracle Exadata database server. This method is recommended for the following conditions:

With exadata-sun-computenode-exact rpm, the system appears as if it were freshly imaged to the newer release because all the Oracle Exadata packages are exactly the same as on a vanilla installation. The exadata-sun-computenode-minimum rpm, however, sets the minimum dependencies, and enforces that all packages are installed, but it also allows packages to be at a later version. A vanilla installation always starts with both RPMs. To allow customization or updates, you need to remove exadata-sun-computenode-exact.

This means that upon rollback of an update the active system image for regular database servers and domU will become /dev/mapper/VGExaDb-LVDbSys2, and for dom0 will become /dev/mapper/VGExaDb-LVDbSys3.

Firmware updates are not rolled back when rolling back to a previous image. The Oracle Exadata System Software releases support later firmware releases. After rolling back, run the following commands to apply older firmware versions when needed:

Starting with Oracle Exadata System Software release 18c (18.1.0), there is a more scalable alternative to using patchmgr for software updates. The storage servers automatically verify preconditions and download the update software from a URL that you specify. Each storage server downloads the software to its active partition, and then loads the software on its passive partition. At a specified time, the storage servers reboot to the new version. The storage servers use the Oracle Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM) disk deactivation status to determine when it is safe to deactivate the disks and reboot the storage server to the new software version. These scheduled updates invoke the same scripts that are currently used by the patchmgr process.

You use the patchmgr update utility for updating Oracle Exadata storage servers. For Exadata storage server updates the utility is packaged (and shipped) with the update itself and is available for download from My Oracle Support as storage server update.

You can roll back updated Exadata storage servers only when they are updated successfully. This means the imageinfo command must return success for active image status. Storage servers with incomplete or failed updates cannot be rolled back. Rollbacks can be done in a rolling or non-rolling fashion.

Before Oracle Exadata System Software release 19.3.0, the storage server and RDMA Network Fabric switch updates use the version of patchmgr bundled with the Oracle Exadata System Software release. Starting with Oracle Exadata System Software release 19.3.0, there is a separate patchmgr download for the RDMA Network Fabric switches and the storage servers.

To update the JDK package, you must download and update the JDK RPM package, and then reconfigure MS to use the new JDK package. You can update the JDK package by either by configuring YUM to use ULN (currently available only for Oracle Linux 6) or by direct package download (for those not able to use ULN).

Following any upgrades to the server image (using dbnodeupdate or patchmgr), check the JDK version. If the JDK package is reverted to an older version during the upgrade, then use the procedures here to update the JDK package to the latest version.

Following any upgrades to the server image (using dbnodeupdate or patchmgr),check the JDK version. If the JDK package is reverted to an older version during the upgrade, then use the procedures here to update the JDK package to the latest version.

Check image status and history using the imageinfo and imagehistory commands on each cell. A successful update to a system with high capacity or high performance drives shows output similar to the following.

VMware vSphere 7 Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) is a tool built-in to VMware vSphere vCenter 7.0 Update 2a and higher that can be very helpful in managing ESXi versions, patches, and drivers, as well as the VM Hardware and VMware Tools versions on VMs in your vCenter. Keeping the software at a desired or required level involves a number of components, such as ESXi base images, vSphere Installation Bundles (VIBs), Bulletins which can contain VIBs, Patches and/or Patch "Roll-ups", and Extensions that add optional third-party components to ESXi. Having the ability to define which of these are required to keep your ESXi host software compliant and automate the deployment of all these components can be a huge time saver.

Custom baselines allow you to tailor your ESXi host code level, and add or update third party drivers and extensions. As mentioned earlier, there are several methods of adding these components to your Lifecycle Manager Depot. Next we will explore importing a third party software component update.

In order to install this software on our ESXi hosts, the most efficient method is to import the software as an update and define a custom baseline to attach to our hosts. After downloading the desired version of this software and extracting the ".zip" file for the actual update, we can import it into the Lifecycle Manager Depot by clicking on the "ACTIONS" dropdown menu and selecting "Import Updates":

Host Firmware: Lifecycle Manager can also update the ESXi host firmware in image-managed clusters. This requires installation of a "hardware support manager" plug-in module, provided by the hardware vendor.

If you have some NIC or storage card drivers you want to integrate into the base ESXi image, it's quite easy to use ESXi Image Builder so your ESXi infrastructure has the best supported drivers. It is also possible to use PowerCLI.

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Within each depot, you'll see the images and its vSphere Installation Bundles (VIBs). A VIB is an ESXi software package. VMware and its partners package solutions, drivers, CIM providers, and applications that extend the ESXi platform as VIBs. You can use VIBs to create and customize ISO images or to upgrade ESXi hosts by installing VIBs asynchronously onto the hosts.

What is the VMware Offline Depot? VMware also calls it an offline bundle. It is a ZIP file that you download from the internet or copy from some media. You can save the zip file on a local or shared network drive. Offline bundles are also available on the websites of third-party vendors. 2ff7e9595c