I have 3 x M1015 IBM cards which were crossflashed to 9211-8i (IT) P17 with bios.
I am not exactly sure I need to upgrade, but thought it may be time to do it as I haven't flashed the cards since 2014 and am not sure whether the latest OMNIOS driver is relying on a certain level of firmware.
The box (as set out in my sig) is an AIO ESXi with a Napp-it storage server vm.
The cards are all passthrough to the VM, which I would image complicates flashing them in ESXi.
Is the safest way to flash these guys to shutdown the ESXi box and boot the server to DOS and flash them all individually or has anyone used the following attempt to flash all at once switch?
sas2flsh.exe -o -fwall 2118it.bin
^^The above is not going to flash the bios which I never needed in the first place as they are all in IT mode passed through to the VM
Any recommendations would be appreciated.
I am not exactly sure I need to upgrade, but thought it may be time to do it as I haven't flashed the cards since 2014 and am not sure whether the latest OMNIOS driver is relying on a certain level of firmware.
The box (as set out in my sig) is an AIO ESXi with a Napp-it storage server vm.
The cards are all passthrough to the VM, which I would image complicates flashing them in ESXi.
Is the safest way to flash these guys to shutdown the ESXi box and boot the server to DOS and flash them all individually or has anyone used the following attempt to flash all at once switch?
sas2flsh.exe -o -fwall 2118it.bin
^^The above is not going to flash the bios which I never needed in the first place as they are all in IT mode passed through to the VM
Any recommendations would be appreciated.