topic Re: Reuse hardware of NetApp HCI Storage Node H410S - unable to boot from USB Key in SolidFire and HCI

Reuse hardware of NetApp HCI Storage Node H410S - unable to boot from USB Key

Raoul_Schaffner — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 17:20:49 GMT

Hi all, I'm in a very similar situation to @itgod_cluelessdog with his question "Reuse hardware of NetApp H410C - unable to boot" https://community.netapp.com/t5/SolidFire-and-HCI/Reuse-hardware-of-NetApp-H410C-unable-to-boot/m-p/456936

I'd like to repurpose my 4 H410S nodes, they contain quality CPUs, quite a handful of RAM and 6 SSDs each. A VMware vSAN playground should be achievable.

However, the nodes are equipped with BIOS NA2.1 dating back to 2017, and booting a USB Key in UEFI boot mode does not seem to be supported. I tried to find newer HCI Storage Node firmware at mysupport, but failed. HCI Compute Node firmware is available, though.

Could you point me to the newest firmware for NetApp HCI H410S nodes? That would be awesome.

Thanks,

Raoul.

Re: Reuse hardware of NetApp HCI Storage Node H410S - unable to boot from USB Key

subv — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 11:50:45 GMT

Hi Raoul,

The latest Storage Firmware Bundle 2.182.0 for H410S package has the firmware version

BIOS	NAT3.6
BMC	07.02.00

You can download this firmware package from NetApp download site:

https://mysupport.netapp.com/site/products/all/details/element-software/downloads-tab/download/62654/Storage_Firmware_Bundle/downloads

Hope this helps. Thank you!

Regards

Vijaya

Re: Reuse hardware of NetApp HCI Storage Node H410S - unable to boot from USB Key

Raoul_Schaffner — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 12:37:13 GMT

Thank you very much for your reply, Vijava. I meanwhile upgraded the nodes to Release 12.7, this gave me BMC 6.98 and BIOS NAT 3.4. It's good enough to let me install VMware vSphere 8.0U2.

The Storage Firmware Bundle is only installable though the management UI of SolidFire, it seems. The Compute Node Firmware is available as a bootable ISO file, independent of installed software.

Regards,

Raoul.