Dell EMC Networking ONIE Technology Guide

[Pages:11]Dell EMC Networking ONIE Technology Guide

Reference for Updating Dell EMC PowerSwitch System Using ONIE

September 2019

Technology Guide

Abstract

This technology guide provides the information that is needed to update ONIE, the system firmware, and install Dell EMC OS10.

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Contents

Contents

Introduction ...............................................................................................................4 ONIE .......................................................................................................................... 5 Validated Components .............................................................................................7 Manually Assigning an IP Address...........................................................................7 ONIE Recovery .........................................................................................................8 Additional Resources..............................................................................................11

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Introduction

Overview

The vision at Dell EMC is to be the essential infrastructure company from the edge, to the core, and to the cloud. Dell EMC Networking ensures modernization for today's applications and for the emerging cloud-native world. Dell EMC is committed to disrupting the fundamental economics of the market with an open strategy that gives you the freedom of choice for networking operating systems and top-tier merchant silicon. The Dell EMC strategy enables business transformations that maximize the benefits of collaborative software and standards-based hardware, including lowered costs, flexibility, freedom, and security. Dell EMC provides further customer enablement through validated deployment guides which demonstrate these benefits while maintaining a high standard of quality, consistency, and support.

Typographical conventions

The CLI and GUI examples in this document use the following conventions:

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Variables in CLI examples

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ONIE

Overview

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The information that is provided in this section helps you: ? Recover a switch using an ONIE USB flash drive device ? Update ONIE/firmware using an existing ONIE ? Install Dell EMC OS10 on a Dell PowerSwitch

Note: If ONIE is not accessible and the switch needs to be recovered, see 0. Access to the ONIE boot menu requires a console connection to the switch. See your platform-specific documentation for information about console connections. Note: See the Dell EMC Networking ONIE Quick Start Guide for more information about ONIE functions.

ONIE self-update This section covers updating ONIE using an existing ONIE and a TFTP server.

Note: A TFTP server needs to be operational and reachable on the same IP subnet as the switch. If a DHCP server is not accessible from the management interface on the switch, see 0 to configure a static IP address on the switch.

1. Download the ONIE software from support. and place it on the TFTP server.

Note: In this example, the file name is onie-updater-x86_64dellemc_s5200_c3538-r0.3.40.1.1-6

2. Reload the switch. 3. From the GRUB menu, select ONIE and then ONIE: Update ONIE. 4. Run the following from the CLI:

onie-self-update t IP/onie-updater-x86_64dellemc_s5200_c3538-r0.3.40.1.1-6

Once ONIE is updated, the switch reboots into the active operating system partition.

Note: After ONIE is reloaded, the diagnostics may need to be reinstalled. See Dell EMC Networking ONIE Quick Start Guide for this process.

ONIE firmware update

This section covers the steps to update the firmware on a Dell EMC PowerSwitch using ONIE. This process updates the BIOS and the CPLD. Only the TFTP method is provided.

Note: A TFTP server needs to be operational and reachable on the same IP subnet as the switch. If a DHCP server is not accessible from the management interface on the switch, see 0 to configure a static IP address on the switch.

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1. Download the firmware file from support. and place it on the TFTP server.

Note: In this example, the file name is onie-firmware-x86_64dellemc_s5200_c3538-r0.3.40.5.1-9.bin.

2. Reload the switch. 3. From the GRUB menu, select ONIE and then ONIE: Rescue. 4. Run the following from the CLI:

onie-self-update t IP/onie-firmware-x86_64dellemc_s5200_c3538-r0.3.40.5.1-4.bin

A check is done between the existing BIOS/CPLD versions and the packaged versions. If a mismatch is discovered, an update runs.

ONIE operating system installation

This section covers the installation of OS10 from ONIE.

CAUTION: The steps that are provided in this section erase both partitions on the switch, including any configurations.

Note: A TFTP server needs to be operational and reachable on the same IP subnet as the switch. If a DHCP server is not accessible from the management interface on the switch, see 0 to configure a static IP address on the switch.

1. Download the OS10 .bin file from and place it on the TFTP server. In this example, the file name is PKGS_OS10-Enterprise10.5.0.0.326stretch-installer-x86_64.bin.

Note: To access the force10 website, log in credentials are required. To create an account, click the Account Request option from the log in screen.

2. Reload the switch. 3. From the GRUB menu, select ONIE and then ONIE: Rescue. 4. Run the following from the CLI:

onie-nos-install t IP/PKGS_OS10-Enterprise10.5.0.0.326stretch-installer-x86_64.bin

This stages the operating system locally. The installation of OS10 to both partitions on the switch begins.

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Validated Components

Dell EMC PowerSwitch models

Table 1. Switch models and operating system versions

Item

Version

Dell EMC PowerSwitch S5248F-ON leaf switches

ONIE

3.35.1.1-7

Firmware

3.40.5.1-4

Dell EMC OS10

10.5

Manually Assigning an IP Address

Procedure

If a DHCP is not accessible from the management interface on the switch, configure a static IP address on the switch as follows:

1. Enter the following command to stop the ONIE discovery process: onie-discovery-stop

2. Configure the IP address and subnet mask on the management port. ifconfig eth0 100.67.170.221 netmask 255.255.255.0 up

Note: 100.67.170.221 and 255.255.255.0 are used in this example:

3. To verify that the IP address has been assigned to eth0, enter the following command:

ONIE:/ # ifconfig

eth0

Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 14:18:77:E0:69:31

inet addr:100.67.170.221 Bcast:100.67.170.255

Mask:255.255.255.0

inet6 addr: fe80::1618:77ff:fee0:6931/64 Scope:Link

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:28 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:13 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

RX bytes:11176 (10.9 KiB) TX bytes:2712 (2.6 KiB)

Memory:dfe60000-dfe7ffff

4. If the server is in a separate subnet, add a default route using the following command:

ONIE:/ # route add default gw 100.67.170.254

5. Verify the default route was successfully created: ONIE:/ # route -n

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Kernel IP routing table

Destination Gateway

0.0.0.0

100.67.170.254

100.67.170.0 0.0.0.0

Genmask

Flags Metric Ref

0.0.0.0

UG 0

0

255.255.255.0 U

0

0

Use Iface 0 eth0 0 eth0

Note: This process is not persistent and needs to be reconfigured after a reboot.

ONIE Recovery

Procedure

This section covers the use of a recovery USB flash drive to update ONIE or recover a switch.

CAUTION: The ONIE recovery process erases all of the partitions on the switch.

1. Download the platform-specific ONIE file from support.. Note: This example uses ONIE_3.40.1.1-6.zip.

Figure 1. ONIE download details

Note: Review the contents of the download and if the .pdf file is all that is listed, select Other formats to locate the .zip file as shown.

2. Unzip the file. 3. Use a USB flash drive image creation utility with the disk image file.

Note: This example uses Rufus 3.7 to create the USB flash drive.

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