C240 M4 & M3 BIOS .cap files

[fakebizprez]

Hello,

Does anyone have a link to a repository or would care to share the BIOS, CMC, and other drivers found in the latest Host Utility updates for the C240 M3 & M4?

I have spent hours trying to update this firmware, I have scraped the internet trying every method posted, I have even tried to use 7Zip to extract the individual files from the .enc within the .iso. I am through. Updating firmware should not be this difficult. I have three C240 M3 & four C240 M4 machines, and not one of them can update via the ISO, whether the method is USB, CIMC, GETFW, etc.

[visceralasonia]

For me I had to download something capable of Flash player (PaleMoon+internet archive adobe flash), then I had to download Java 8, then I had to load the HUU ISO into it from the Java-based KVM terminal, then I had to retry booting the iso three times to not get a kernel panic. That was my experience with it, and unfortunately for you there was no export option so you may have to do the same as me in that case.

[Elliot Dierksen]

I thought you could still get the latest for M4's from CCO. @visceralasonia  makes a great point about Flash for the remote console in the M3's. I would use some other kind of remove physical console connection like a KVM that supports a remote option. That would be less painful than trying to deal with the Flash player shenanigans.

[fakebizprez]

Thanks, everyone, I posted this last year, haha. The m4 you can still get the HUU. It took me two weeks to figure out how to upgrade the BIOS. I didn't realize it has to be done via CIMC, and it has to sit for about 120 minutes. For two weeks I would turn the machine off because I thought it was hung, and then one day I fell asleep, woke up to the mouse being enabled and i was able to select which firmware to update.

As for the M3, I found a way to get around the Flash requirement, I can't remember the syntax that had to be typed in the browser, though. The three M3s were free, and once I saw they had DDR3 i decided not to bother. Still sitting in a closet if anyone's interested.

[visceralasonia]

To be honest with you, I find the M3 to be too loud for my liking. Running
a 10.8 TB home server ATM and for all the soundproofing I do I can still
hear it boot up. Might try and hack together a noctua cooling arrangement
at some point though.

[Elliot Dierksen]

I retired my M3's several years back, but my recollection was I was able to get them reasonably quiet. You had to tweak the fan profiles, and not use cards that the CIMC doesn't recognize. The latter is true for almost any UCS server. My personal favorite is when I used WD Red SATA SSD's in an M5 and the CIMC didn't read the temperature of the drives correctly. It thought they were running a 10 billion degrees (or something pretty close to that), so it set the fans to max speed. I eventually had to use internal LSI HBA's so the CIMC wouldn't do that. This was for a NAS configuration, and the budget for my home lab does not accommodate the Cisco blessed SATA SSD's. That was still annoying because it isn't like the WD Reds are cheap crap.

[visceralasonia]

Is there another way to tune them aside from the Low Power option? I can
possibly take out the Intel networking cards and make them a bit quieter.

Also my LSI card literally refuses to do anything CIMC tells it to lol.
Gotta use StorCLI from a live Arch ISO to make it work.

[fakebizprez]

I'm having the same issue. One won't leave the highest fan speed setting and the other won't leave balanced even t hough i have it in low.

[Elliot Dierksen]

If it doesn't accept your setting, that means it is overriding it based on the hardware inventory. You should be able to hover over the fan speed so it will tell you why. With an HBA card, balanced or acoustic (if that option is there) are likely going to be the best choices available.