Releasenotes - HewlettPackard/sdflexutils GitHub Wiki
New Features / Enhancements:
- Enable get_pending_bios_settings()
- Enable get_product_name() for Superdome Flex systems
New Features / Enhancements:
- OpenStack Ironic Zed release support
- Sushy version4.3.x support
New Features / Enhancements:
- Get vmedia device status. This is to get the status of the given vmedia device
New Features / Enhancements:
- RAID configuration support for Tri-Mode controller Adaptec SmartRAID Ultra 3258P-32i /e with all the supported drives (SAS, SATA and NVMe).
- Hardware Disk Erase support for Tri-Mode controller Adaptec SmartRAID Ultra 3258P-32i /e with all the supported drives (SAS, SATA and NVMe).
New Features / Enhancements:
- OpenStack Ironic Wallaby release support
- Deploy Steps support for RAID configuration, SUM based IO firmware update and BIOS settings
New Features / Enhancements applicable for both Superdome Flex 280 and Superdome Flex servers:
- OpenStack Ironic Victoria
- DHCP less OS provisioning
- Support for Standalone Ironic
Fixes:
- Issue in in-band clean steps
- RAID configuration on Adaptec SmartRAID controllers fails when coexisting with StorCLI based controllers
- Vmedia insertion is failing if Vmedia is disabled on the system
Fixes:
- Fixes firmware update issue for Superdome Flex 280.
New Features / Enhancements:
- Support for Superdome Flex 280 server
- Virtual Media support
- IO Firmware update using SUM
- sdflexutils support for Ussuri release based sushy library
Enhancements:
- sdflexutils support for Train release based sushy library
Fixes:
- Fixes the json format issue with python3 for firmware update feature.
Beginning with Superdome Flex firmware bundle 3.10.164, OpenStack Ironic (Rocky release) with the Ironic hardware type sdflex-redfish (provided by sdflex-ironic-driver version 1.0.0) and sdflexutils library (version 1.0.0) using RMC management Redfish features enable the following Superdome Flex specific value add features in addition to the features of Ironic redfish hardware type .
- Secure boot - enables configuring Secure Boot on the node, OS provisioning, and boot OS in secure boot mode.
- Directed LAN boot - an alternative to regular LAN (PXE) boot, and is more secure as it enables bare metal to connect and boot from the specified TFTP boot file url only.
- BIOS settings - provides mechanism to set the specified values for the BIOS parameters.
- Firmware update - provides a utility to update the complex firmware and nPar firmware.
- RAID configuration - provides an in-band RAID configuration functionality for both create and delete logical volumes.
- Hardware disk erase - provides an in-band disk erase functionality with the specified pattern using the respective storage controller utility.
- OpenStack Ironic Rocky release support