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Hello There, In this article, I shall share you with two commands in order to get the iDRAC IP address from esxcli or localcli 1) esxc li command: esxcli hardware ipmi bmc get 2) localcli command: localcli hardware ipmi bmc get                                                

  Hello There, I was working recently on upgrading the firmware for Dell Power Edge servers due a requirement. As usual, I did the download of the necessary firmware update file and uploaded it in the iDRAC and started the upgrade. Waited for couple of minutes, If I can say, it was almost 15 minutes without any progress. I tried to check the log/job queue in the iDRAC and found it was full of old entries and I tried clearing it but found no option. Later after findings, I managed to find a command which clears the jobqueue, and below is the command I used after logging into iDRAC via SSH. racadm jobqueue delete -i JID_CLEARALL_FORCE Once the above command was executed, I tried to login to iDRAC and check the job queue and found everything was cleared. Whats next?? Tried uploading the file again and then managed to successfully update the firmware.

What to do if you are not able to access the virtual machine console from the vCloud Director based portal My first thought is, is it because of SSL certificates?? was it ?? No... It wasn't.   I tried inspecting from the browser to understand the flow but found everything normal.   Later found out that its a common issue with v10.2 and can be fixed by running below command on all the cells.     /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/bin/cell-management-tool manage-config -n consoleproxy.cores.max -v "0"   service vmware-vcd restart     The workaround applied will set the console connections counter to unlimited.