VEP4600 Operating System Installation Guide September 2018 · 9/21/2018 · 1 Platform status icon LEDs 2 RS-232 ports (top) and 10/100/1000 Base-T ports (bottom) 3 SFP+ ports 4 Luggage

VEP4600 Operating System Installation GuideSeptember 2018

Notes, cautions, and warnings

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WARNING: A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage, personal injury, or death.

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2018 - 09

Rev. A01

Contents

1 VEP4600 overview.........................................................................................................................................4

2 VEP4600 start up and serial console connection........................................................................................... 5

3 Prepare bootable USB with ISO image...........................................................................................................7

4 Configure BIOS and install Red Hat 7.4 OS.................................................................................................... 9BIOS access process......................................................................................................................................................... 9Configure BIOS to boot from USB................................................................................................................................. 10Install Red Hat 7.4 OS.......................................................................................................................................................12Start Red Hat 7.4 OS Installation.................................................................................................................................... 16Configure BIOS to boot from SSD..................................................................................................................................17Boot up Red Hat 7.4 OS from SSD.................................................................................................................................21Boot into DIAG OS........................................................................................................................................................... 23

5 Configure BIOS and install Ubuntu 16.04 OS................................................................................................26Configure BIOS to boot from USB.................................................................................................................................27Install Ubuntu 16.04 OS...................................................................................................................................................29Boot into DIAG OS........................................................................................................................................................... 34

6 Configure BIOS and install ADVA OS........................................................................................................... 39

7 Configure BIOS and install VMware ESXi OS............................................................................................... 46Configure BIOS to boot from USB.................................................................................................................................47Install ESXi OS..................................................................................................................................................................50

8 Upgrade BIOS..............................................................................................................................................55Upgrade BIOS through BMC and IPMI.........................................................................................................................55Upgrade BIOS through IPMI...........................................................................................................................................59Upgrade BIOS through DIAG OS....................................................................................................................................61

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VEP4600 overviewThe VEP4600 platform is a one rack unit, x86-based networking platform running virtualized universal customer premise equipment (uCPE) functions, and basic switching/routing functions as a top-of-rack device with four, eight, or 16 cores.

Figure 1. VEP4600 platform

1 Platform status icon LEDs 2 RS-232 ports (top) and 10/100/1000 Base-T ports (bottom)

3 SFP+ ports 4 Luggage tag

5 1000 Base-T networking ports 6 Processor power on/off button

7 Micro USB-B port 8 USB Type A ports

For detailed information about the VEP4600 platform, see the following documents at https://www.dell.com/support:

• BMC User Guide

• BIOS User Guide

• VEP4600 Installation Guide

• VEP4600 Setup Guide

• uCPE Networking DIAG OS Guide

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4 VEP4600 overview

https://www.dell.com/support

VEP4600 start up and serial console connection

1 Using a PuTTY console, establish a console connection with an 115200 baud rate.

Figure 2. PuTTy session options

2 Plug in a power cable to the back of VEP4600.

The platform powers up immediately. Watch for the VEP4600 console window.

Figure 3. VEP4600 console window

After the POST Lower DRAM Memory test text displays, the cursor moves to the upper left corner of the console window.

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VEP4600 start up and serial console connection 5

Figure 4. Curser

3 Press the Delete button until the Press <DEL> … string displays on the console window.

Figure 5. Console window display

NOTE: If you miss the setup screen, a boot up screen displays. If this happens, power cycle the VEP4600 and press the Delete button. Repeat the process until you see the setup screen.

Figure 6. Setup screen

6 VEP4600 start up and serial console connection

Prepare bootable USB with ISO imageFor this procedure, you need a bootable USB stick. On a Windows CPU, use Rufus to burn the bootable USB. To download Rufus, go to https://rufus.akeo.ie.

1 Click the cdrom icon to load the ISO image from the Windows disks.

Figure 7. Load ISO image

2 Navigate to the ISO file and click to select the file.

Figure 8. Select ISO file

3 Verify that the file name selected displays at the bottom of the Rufus device dialog box.

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Figure 9. Rufus device dialog box

NOTE: Use the same process to burn a USB stick with Ubuntu and ESXi ISO images.

8 Prepare bootable USB with ISO image

Configure BIOS and install Red Hat 7.4 OS

Topics:

• BIOS access process

• Configure BIOS to boot from USB

• Install Red Hat 7.4 OS

• Start Red Hat 7.4 OS Installation

• Configure BIOS to boot from SSD

• Boot up Red Hat 7.4 OS from SSD

• Boot into DIAG OS

BIOS access process





Figure 11. Cursor


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Configure BIOS and install Red Hat 7.4 OS 9




Configure BIOS to boot from USB

1 Boot up the VEP4600 and navigate to the BIOS settings.

For more information, see the previous section about BIOS settings.

2 Select the Advanced tab. Select CSM Configuration and press Enter.

Figure 14. Select CSM Configuration

3 Use UEFI to install the Red Hat OS.

10 Configure BIOS and install Red Hat 7.4 OS

Figure 15. CSM support enabled

4 Select the Boot menu tab.

5 Highlight the UEFI USB Drive BBS Priority option using the left and right arrows and press Enter.

Figure 16. Select EUFI USB Drive BBS Priority

6 Select Red Hat OS USB as the first option.


Figure 17. Select Red Hat OS USB

7 Select USB using the up and down arrows for Boot Option #1 and press Enter.

Figure 18. Select USB

8 Use the left and right arrow keys to highlight Yes after the Save configuration and exit prompt displays, then press Enter.

Figure 19. Save configuration and exit option

9 Follow the steps in the next section to boot to the Red Hat 7.4 GRUB installation menu.

Install Red Hat 7.4 OS

1 Boot into the Red Hat 7.4 GRUB installation menu.


Figure 20. Install Red Hat menu

2 Type e to edit the installation menu entry.

Figure 21. Edit installation menu

3 Attach the console=ttyS0,11520 string to the end of the first install line.

4 Press ctrl-x to start the installation.

Figure 22. Installation start

5 Configure the disk destination for the installation by entering 5 and c to configure the Installation Destination.


Figure 23. Configure disk destination

6 Enter 1 for SSD disk, then c to continue.

Figure 24. Select SSD disk

7 Enter 3 to Use Free Space, then enter c to continue.

NOTE: You must select this option. If you do not select this option, the Red Hat OS deletes the DIAG OS.


Figure 25. Select Use Free Space

8 Enter 1 to select Standard Partition, then enter c to continue.

Figure 26. Select Standard Partition

9 Enter 2 to configure the Time settings.

Optionally, configure the root password.


Figure 27. Select Time settings

Start Red Hat 7.4 OS Installation

1 Enter b to start the installation.

Figure 28. Start installation

The installation process begins.


Figure 29. Installation process begins

2 Press Return to reboot the system after the installation completes.

Figure 30. Reboot the system

Configure BIOS to boot from SSD






Figure 32. Cursor







4 Boot into the BIOS settings and scroll down to UEFI Hard Disk Drive BBS Priorities using the up and down arrow keys and press Enter.

Figure 35. Select UEFI Hard Disk Drive BBS Priorities

5 Select Red Hat Boot Manager as Boot Option #1.


Figure 36. Select Red Hat Boot Manager

6 Configure the fixed boot order priorities, and select Red Hat as the first boot option.

Figure 37. Select Red Hat


The system automatically starts to boot up.



Boot up Red Hat 7.4 OS from SSD

Figure 39. Red Hat 7.4 boot screen

1 Enter the required credentials from the local login screen as root, then press Enter.

2 Check the disk usage after logging in using the fdisk command.


Figure 40. fdisk Command output

3 Type df -h to display usage.


Figure 41. df -h Command output

Boot into DIAG OS

1 Select the Boot menu tab. Boot to the BIOS settings.

2 Scroll down to Hard Disk Priorities, then press Enter.

Figure 42. Select hard Disk Priorities

3 Select DIAG OS from the Hard Disk Priorities screen as the first boot option using the up and down arrow keys, then press Enter.

Figure 43. Select DIAG OS

4 Confirm the DIAG OS is selected as the first option in fixed boot order.


Figure 44. DIAG OS first option confirmation



6 Boot to DIAG OS.

Figure 46. Boot to DIAG OS

7 Type fdisk -l to display the disk usage.


Figure 47. fdisk -l Command output

8 Type df –h to display usage.

Figure 48. dh -h Command output


Configure BIOS and install Ubuntu 16.04 OS





Figure 50. Cursor




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26 Configure BIOS and install Ubuntu 16.04 OS


Topics:


• Install Ubuntu 16.04 OS

• Boot into DIAG OS



Boot into the BIOS settings using the up and down arrow keys and configure the boot up options.

Figure 53. Configure boot up options

2 Select USB Device using the up and down arrow keys as the boot device.

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Figure 54. Select USB Device

NOTE: If you do not see the USB boot, select USB Drive BBS Priorities and press Enter.

Figure 55. Select USB Drive BBS Priorities

3 Confirm that the required USB is selected.

Figure 56. Boot Option #1 confirmation


Figure 57. Save confirmation and exit option


Install Ubuntu 16.04 OS

1 Boot into the Ubuntu GRUB menu.

Figure 58. Ubuntu GRUB menu

2 Type e to check the boot entry.

Confirm the console=ttyS0,115200 string is present.

Figure 59. Check boot entry

3 Press ctrl-x to start the installation.

4 Confirm the language that is selected from the Select a language screen.


Figure 60. Select a language screen

5 Make edits as needed or skip for brevity.

6 Select Yes from the Partition disks screen to unmount the partition.

Figure 61. Partition disks screen

7 Select Guided – use the largest continuous free space for the Partitioning method.

Figure 62. Select Guided - use the largest continuous free space

8 Review the selections that are made for the partitions, and if no other changes are required, select Yes to confirm the option to write the changes to disks.


Figure 63. Confirm write to disks

9 Make edits as needed or skip for brevity.

10 Select the Main menu tab.

Boot to the BIOS setting.

Figure 64. Boot to BIOS setting

11 Select Ubuntu using the up and down arrow keys as the first boot option from the Fixed Boot Order Priorities screen.


Figure 65. Select Ubuntu

12 Use the left and right arrow keys to highlight Yes after the Save configuration and exit prompt displays, then press Enter to start the boot process.


13 Highlight *Ubuntu then press Enter.

Figure 67. Select *Ubuntu

14 Type e to edit.


Figure 68. Edit option

15 Add the console redirect.

Figure 69. Console redirect option

16 Enter control-x to boot.


Figure 70. Booting output

17 Type df -h to display usage.


Boot into DIAG OS

1 Enter the reboot and df -h commands from the command prompt to reboot the platform.


Figure 72. Reboot and df -h command output

2 Select the Main menu tab.

Boot to the BIOS settings and using the left and right arrow keys, scroll to the BIOS tab.

Figure 73. Boot to BIOS settings

3 Select the DIAG OS partition to boot from the BIOS tab.


Figure 74. Select DIAG OS partition

4 Press Enter for Boot Option #1.

Figure 75. Select Boot Option #1

5 Confirm that Boot Option #1 is selected.

Figure 76. Boot Option #1 confirmation

6 Use the left and right arrow keys to highlight Yes after the Save configuration and exit prompt displays, then press Enter to start boot up the system.



The system boots up.

Figure 78. System booting

7 Enter the required credentials from the DIAG OS screen the press Enter.

Figure 79. DIAG OS screen

8 Log in to the DIAG OS as root/calvin, as shown.

Figure 80. DIAG OS screen output

9 Enter the df -h command to display output.




Configure BIOS and install ADVA OS

WARNING: Installing ADVA on VEP4600 deletes the DIAG OS. To restore the DIAG OS, delete ADVA and reinstall the DIAG OS.

NOTE: To burn the ADVA ISO image on the USB, see the Prepare bootable USB with ISO image section.

Contact ADVA Optical Networking for the latest ADVA OS .iso image.





Figure 83. Cursor



NOTE: NOTE: If you miss the setup screen, a boot up screen displays. If this happens, power cycle the VEP4600 and press the Delete button. Repeat the process until you see the setup screen.

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3 Select the Advanced menu tab and boot into the BIOS settings.

4 Select UEFI using the up and down arrow keys and Legacy in CSM.

Figure 86. Select UEFI and Legacy in CSM

5 Use the up and down arrow keys to select Hard Drive BBS Priorities then press Enter.

Figure 87. Select Hard Drive BBS Priorities

6 Select sSATA P3: INTEL using the up and down arrows then press Enter.

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Figure 88. Select sSATA P3: INTEL

7 Select Dell Dell USB PMAP using the up and down arrow keys then press Enter.

Figure 89. Select Dell Dell USB PMAP

8 Use the left and right arrow keys to highlight Yes after the Save configuration and exit prompt displays, then press Enter to start boot up the system.


a If the previous CSM boot mode is different from UEFI and Legacy BIOS, boot into POST again and start to boot into the USB stick.


Figure 91. Boot into POST and USB

b Select Serial Port Console then press Enter.

Figure 92. Select Serial Port Console

c Select Yes, Proceed to Install with Serial Port Console to start the OS installation.

Figure 93. Select Yes, Proceed to Install with Serial Port Console

The OS installation starts.


Figure 94. OS installation starts

9 Turn off the system after the installation completes processing.

Figure 95. Installation completes processing

10 Start up the system and boot into BIOS settings.

11 Select sSATA P3: INTEL as the first boot option.


Figure 96. Select sSATA P3: INTEL

12 Use the left and right arrow keys to highlight Yes after the Save configuration and exit prompt displays, then press Enter. to start boot up the system.


13 Boot into the ADVA OS.


Figure 98. ADVA OS output


Configure BIOS and install VMware ESXi OS

WARNING: To install VMware ESXi with automatic console redirect, see the Release Notes on the Access Platform section of eSupport for BIOS update information and most the current BIOS version.

WARNING: Installing ESXi on VEP4600 deletes the DIAG OS. To restore the DIAG OS, delete ESXi and reinstall the DIAG OS.

NOTE: To burn the ESXi ISO image on the USB, see the Prepare bootable USB with ISO image section.

Figure 99. No hard disk detected message





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46 Configure BIOS and install VMware ESXi OS

Figure 101. Cursor





Topics:


• Install ESXi OS


1 Select the Advanced menu tab using the up and down arrow keys from the Setup Utility screen. Select CSM Configuration.

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Figure 104. Select CSM Configuration

2 Verify that UEFI is selected for the Boot option filter from the Compatibility Support Module Configuration screen.

Figure 105. UEFI confirmation

3 Configure the USB stick, UEFI: 1100, Partition 1, as Boot Option #1 from the Boot Configuration screen, then press Enter to save the changes.


Figure 106. Configure the USB

4 Press the F4 key to save and exit the configuration screen.



The ESXI installation starts.


Figure 108. ESXi installation output

Install ESXi OS

1 Select SSD from the VMware ESXi 6.0.0 screen as the Destination Disk.

Figure 109. Select SSD

2 Press F11 to confirm when prompted to confirm the installation.

WARNING: Pressing F11 confirms the installation and the disk repartitions.


Figure 110. Confirm installation

3 Confirm the disk selection by pressing Enter.

Figure 111. Confirm disk selection

The ESXi installation status screen displays.

Figure 112. ESXi installation output

4 Press Enter to continue after the installation completion screen displays.

Figure 113. Installation completion screen

5 Remove the USB stick and press Enter to continue.


The VEP4600 platform reboots.

6 Press the Delete button to enter into BIOS setup mode again. Configure the hard disk as Boot Option #1.

Figure 114. Configure Boot Option #1

7 Press Save and Exit. Reboot the system.

8 Press F2 to configure the static network.

Figure 115. Configure static network

9 Enter the required login and password credentials at the login screen then press Enter.

Figure 116. Enter login and password

10 Select Configure network management from the System Customization screen then press Enter.


Figure 117. Select Configure network management

11 Select Network Adapters using the up and down arrow keys from the Configure Management Network screen and press Enter.

Figure 118. Select Network Adapters

12 Enter the IPv4 Address, Subnet Mask, and Default Gateway configurations in the fields that are provided at the Network Adapters screen then press Enter.

Figure 119. Configure default Gateway

13 Press the Y key to confirm the changes that you made and to restart the management network.


Figure 120. Confirm changes


Upgrade BIOS

Topics:

• Upgrade BIOS through BMC and IPMI

• Upgrade BIOS through IPMI

• Upgrade BIOS through DIAG OS

Upgrade BIOS through BMC and IPMI

1 Go to Dell.com/support to download the BIOS image (bin file) and Yafuflash utility on Linux OS.

2 Configure the BMC/IPMI network interface.

a Boot into the BIOS setup.b Press the Tab key to access the Server Mgmt tab.

Figure 121. Server Mgmt tab

3 Use the up and down arrows to scroll down to select BMC network configuration then press Enter.

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Figure 122. Select BMC network configuration

4 Use the up and down arrow keys to navigate to the IPv4 configuration address menu from the BMC network configuration screen and press Enter.

NOTE: The cursor is not aligned to menu options.

Figure 123. Select IPv4 configuration address

By default, this option is Unspecified. You must configure this field as either DHCP or Static to edit the next IP address field menu items.

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Figure 124. Configure DHCP or Static

5 Select Static and press Enter.

Figure 125. Select Static

6 Verify that the Configuration Address source field shows Static from the BMC network configuration screen.

Figure 126. Confirm Static setting

7 Use the up and down arrow keys to navigate to each of the fields that are provided to configure the Station IP address, Subnet mask, Station MAC address, Router IP address, and Router MAC address.

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Figure 127. Configure settings

NOTE: If the configuration address menu item is not being configured, you are not able to configure IP address, netmask, router IP address, and so on.

8 Press Enter to configure the IP address.

Figure 128. Configure IP address screen

9 Use ctrl-h to erase the default 0.0.0.0 address and enter a new one.

Figure 129. Configure new IP address

10 Press Enter.

The IP address line updates and reflects the new IP address.

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Figure 130. IP address updated

11 Repeat these steps to configure the Subnet mask, Station MAC address, Router IP address, and Router MAC address fields.

12 Press the F4 key after you updated the IPv4 fields. Highlight Yes after the Save configuration and exit prompt displays and press Enter to boot to the VEP4600.


Upgrade BIOS through IPMI

1 Verify the BMC/IPMI connection from another system using ping and the following IPMI CLI command:

ping 172.17.108.64PING 172.17.108.64 (172.17.108.63) 56(84) bytes of data.64 bytes from 172.17.108.64: icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=0.454 ms64 bytes from 172.17.108.64: icmp_seq=2 ttl=63 time=0.389 ms64 bytes from 172.17.108.64: icmp_seq=3 ttl=63 time=0.327 ms^C--- 172.17.108.64 ping statistics ---3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 1999msrtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.327/0.390/0.454/0.051 ms[root@sah VEPBIOS]# ipmitool -I lanplus -H 172.17.108.64 -U admin -P admin power statusChassis Power is on

2 Upgrade the BIOS image using the following command:

./Yafuflash -nw -ip 172.17.108.64 -u admin -p admin -d 2 VEP4600-BIOS-3.41.0.9-8.BIN3 Upload the image to the VEP4600.

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Figure 132. Image upload

4 Install the image.

Figure 133. Image installation

5 Verify the image.

Figure 134. Image verification

6 Complete the upgrade.

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Figure 135. Upgrade completion

7 Reboot the system to verify the new BIOS image.

Figure 136. BIOS image verification

Upgrade BIOS through DIAG OS

1 Log in to DIAG OS. Confirm that the following directory has all the diagnostic utility files:

root@dellemc-diag-os:~# ls /opt/dellemc/diag/binYafuflash flashrom temptoolbonnie++ gpiotool testcmdline_test i2ctool test.mapcmdline_test.map ipmitool testaclcpu_layout.py kni testacl.mapcputool kni.map testpipelinedpdk-devbind.py ledtool testpipeline.mapdpdk-pdump lpctool testpmddpdk-pdump.map memtool testpmd.mapdpdk-pmdinfo.py nvramtool updatetooldpdk-pmdinfogen pcitool vep4600_DPDK_test_all.shdpdk-procinfo phytool vep4600_bmc_i2cdev_register_test.shdpdk-procinfo.map pltool vep4600_cpu_access_nvme_ssd_test.shdpdk-setup.sh psutool vep4600_set_bmc_mac.shedatool rtctool vep4600_tpm_toe_verification.sh

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eepromtool smartctl vmetoolfantool storagetool

NOTE: If the directory is not complete, go to support.dell.com to download the latest DIAG OS tools.

2 Use this command to install the package:

dpkg -i dn-diags-VEP4600-DiagOS-3.41.4.81-2-2018-03-29.deb3 Upgrade the BIOS using the following:

Mount usb to linux file system,

fdisk -l | grep FAT

GPT PMBR size mismatch (250069679 != 484490159) will be corrected by w(rite).

/dev/sdb1 * 8064 60555263 60547200 28.9G c W95 FAT32 (LBA)

mkdir /mnt/usb

mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb

cd /mnt/usb

ls *.BIN

VEP4600-BIOS-3.41.0.9-8.BIN VEP4600-BIOS-3.41.0.9-8a.BIN

updatetool -D BIOS -U -e /mnt/usb/VEP4600-BIOS-3.41.0.9-8.BIN

root@dellemc-diag-os:/opt/dellemc/diag/bin# updatetool -D BIOS -U -e /mnt/usb/VEP4600-BIOS-3.41.0.9-8.BIN disable preserve BIOS configration 00 Disable device protect Disable BIOS protect operation success, wait HW reset Write image to BIOS INFO: Yafu INI Configuration File not found... Default options will not be applied...

Creating IPMI session via USB...Done

-------------------------------------------------YAFUFlash - Firmware Upgrade Utility (Version 4.112.0)-------------------------------------------------(C)Copyright 2016, American Megatrends Inc.Beginning BIOS Update...Uploading Image : 100%... doneFlashing Firmware Image : 100%... doneVerifying Firmware Image : 100%... donewrite BIOS image successEnable device protect

Update BIOS image success4 Reboot the system.

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VEP4600 Operating System Installation Guide September 2018 · 9/21/2018 · 1 Platform status icon LEDs 2 RS-232 ports (top) and 10/100/1000 Base-T ports (bottom) 3 SFP+ ports 4 Luggage