VEP14x5 OS Install

VEP1400 Linux Operating System Installation Guide
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Table of Contents
1 VEP14x5 Overview.................................................................................................................. 2
2 Power on VEP1400 and Establish Serial Console Connection .............................................. 3
3 Prepare Bootable USB Stick with ISO Image ......................................................................... 7
4 Install and Upgrade diagOS .................................................................................................. 10
5 Configure BIOS and install Ubuntu 16.04 OS ....................................................................... 13
Configure BIOS to boot from USB stick ......................................................................... 13
5.2 Upgrade to 18.04.2 LTS release .................................................................................... 28
6 Configure BIOS and install CentOS 7 ................................................................................... 30
7 Configure BIOS and install RedHat 7.4 ................................................................................ 36
8 ADVA Connector Installation ................................................................................................. 40
9 VMware ESXi 6.7 Installation ................................................................................................ 43
Burn a bootable USB thumb drive ................................................................................. 43
10 DMI Table Customization .................................................................................................. 51
11 Upgrade BIOS .................................................................................................................... 53
12 Upgrade CPLD ................................................................................................................... 55
13 List of Supported SFP Optics ............................................................................................ 56
VEP4600 Installation Report 1

1 VEP14x5 Overview
1. Exterior View
Two SFP ports 6 GB ports, 2 Intel X553 ports

Micro USB for console
Intel X553 4 Intel i350 port

2 Power on VEP1400 and Establish Serial Console
Connection
Connect micro USB to USB cable to VEP1400 micro USB port and connect the other USB
end to laptop.
Install this device driver if it’s not been done yet (one time only operation), here is the
device driver link,
https://www.silabs.com/products/development-tools/software/usb-to-uart-bridge-vcp-
drivers
Bring Windows device driver to check the com port
It’s CP2101 drive

Configure putty session with the right port number and speed

To establish a console connection, use 115200 baud rate.
Plug in the power cord to VEP1400. It starts to power up immediately. Watch for VEP1400
console window,

When it starts to display “POST Lower DRAM Memory test” (takes about a minute to display it
after turn the power on), The green color cursor will then move to the top left corner.
Keep pressing the delete button or tap it until the “Press <DEL> …” string shows up on the
console window,

If you miss the setup screen by not tapping the delete key fast enough, you will see a boot up
screen, if that happens, you must power it off and power it on again to restart the boot up
process.

3 Prepare Bootable USB Stick with ISO Image
Burn a bootable USB thumb driver using this ISO file,

ubuntu-16.04.3-server-amd64.iso
Use GPT and UEFI mode

Use ISO image mode
After burning the USB drive

Edit the grub.cfg file under this folder
Add console=ttyS0,115200 to the linux image line

Plug USB thumb drive to VEP14x5 USB port.

4 Install and Upgrade diagOS
Burn a bootable USB with DD option

Here is the diagOS ISO image link,
https://dell.box.com/s/h9tzfkpdd3hi7fg4wjeqdhd1vuky75a9
Configure BIOS, CSM as UEFI only
Select USB with partition 1 suffix

Save and Exit
Installation starts and select 3 to install diagOS on eMMC

It will reboot by itself once done, take out the USB thumb drive
Login with root/calvin credential

5 Configure BIOS and install Ubuntu 16.04 OS
Configure BIOS to boot from USB stick
BIOS setting, CSM
Hit enter on CSM Configuration

Make sure Boot option filter is UEFI only
Navigate to Boot
Hit enter on the first boot option

Select your bootable USB thumb driver (Samsung is USB vendor, make sure it has “Partition” in
suffix)
Hit enter to complete the selection
Traverse to Save & Exit tab and hit enter on “Save Changes and Exit”

Hit Yes and start to boot
Hit enter on the first grub menu option

Select English

Hit enter
Follow the installation wizard pages to the network configuration page

Select enp2s0f2 interface. This is the first 1G port
With DHCP enabled on the uplink. It can then automatically pick IP configuration from DHCP
server and come to this host configuration page
Follow the wizard page instruction and configure the following destination partition page
Hit enter on Yes

Hit enter on the default selection
Select the second one with 128GB capacity. The first one is MMC that has diagOS installed,
never use that partition, otherwise diagOS will be erased

Select Yes and hit enter

Select Continue and hit enter

Start to install everything and stop at this page
Select Continue and hit enter

Hit enter and finish the installation

Take the bootable USB thumb drive and hit enter
Starts to reboot again and come this hard disk grub menu
Hit e to edit the menu

Move down to the actual image line
Add console=ttyS0,11520 to it

Hit control x to finish the boot process
Login and run these commands

labadmin@ubuntu:~$ sudo bash
[sudo] password for labadmin:
root@ubuntu:~# cd /

root@ubuntu:/# find . -name grub.cfg
./boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu/grub.cfg
./boot/grub/grub.cfg
./usr/share/doc/grub-common/examples/grub.cfg
vi ./boot/grub/grub.cfg

Save and exit
Reboot
It now can boot into hard disk OS automatically
5.2 Upgrade to 18.04.2 LTS release
Ubuntu 16.04 does not have Intel X350 NIC driver. Use the following commands to upgrade
Ubuntu to 18.04.2 release
sudo bash
do-release-upgrade
follow the screen instructions and let it run
After reboot, modify the grub.cfg file again to redirect the console. Login to check all the network
interfaces,

eno1: flags=4098<BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
enp2s0f0: flags=4098<BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
enp2s0f2: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500

Here is list of mapping to the labels on physical port labels
enp2s0f0 port3
enp2s0f1 port4
enp2s0f2 port1
enp2s0f3 port2
eno1 SFP port 1
eno2 SFP port 2
eno3 port6
eno4 port5

6 Configure BIOS and install CentOS 7
Burn a bootable USB thumb drive using this ISO file,

CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1503-01.iso (see page 8 for details)
Edit the grub.cfg file under

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry 'Install CentOS 7' --class fedora --class gnu-linux --class
gnu --class os {
linuxefi /images/pxeboot/vmlinuz
inst.stage2=hd:LABEL=CENTOS\x207\x20X8 quiet console=ttyS0,115200
initrdefi /images/pxeboot/initrd.img
}
Save and exit
Plug into VEP1425 USB port and boot into BIOS settings,




Run this command to install ifconfig package
yum install net-tools
Run these commands to upgrade CentOS to the latest release

yum check-update
yum update
em1: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500

enp2s0f0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
enp2s0f2: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500

Here is the port map
enp2s0f0 port3
enp2s0f1 port4
enp2s0f2 port1
enp2s0f3 port2
em1 SFP port 1
em2 SFP port 2
em3 port6
em4 port5

7 Configure BIOS and install RedHat 7.4
Burn a bootable USB thumb drive with this ISO image

rhel-server-7.4-x86_64-dvd.iso (see page 8 for details)
Modify grub.cfg fille
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry 'Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4' --class fedora --
class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
linuxefi /images/pxeboot/vmlinuz inst.stage2=hd:LABEL=RHEL-
7_4\x20SE quiet console=ttyS0,115200
initrdefi /images/pxeboot/initrd.img
}
Boot into BIOS settings and select USB


cat /etc/system-release-cpe
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.4:ga:server
ip add list
enp2s0f0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN
qlen 1000

qlen 1000
enp2s0f2: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP qlen
1000
qlen 1000
em1: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN qlen
1000
1000
1000
1000
Here is the port map
enp2s0f0 port3
enp2s0f1 port4
enp2s0f2 port1
enp2s0f3 port2
em1 SFP port 1
em2 SFP port 2
em3 port6
em4 port5

8 ADVA Connector Installation
1 Burn a bootable USB thumb drive
Select ISO Image and click OK

2 BIOS Configuration


9 VMware ESXi 6.7 Installation
Burn a bootable USB thumb drive

Here is the ESX6.7U3 ISO image,
https://dell.box.com/s/v91l0oem74ymvr64u8v7ppwesryphuis
Once downloaded, use Rufus to burn a USB drive
Login into diagOS and make sure the following BIOS/FW bundle is installed,
updatetool -D ALL -V
BIOS version:

3.48.0.9-4
CPLD version:
0.2
PIC version:
v20I
cc26x0 version:
User Revision Number: 0x0003
BLE Stack Version: 02.02.02
Stack Build Version: 0x196E
Boot the box into BIOS settings,

Save and Exit.
The installation starts
Select ATA SSD disk as the destination and hit enter

Hit enter

Enter root password
Hit F11 to start the installation

Take out the bootable USB thumb driver and hit enter to reboot
Boot into BIOS settings and set the option #1 for SSD

Save and Exit
Boot into ESXi console

vSphere UI screen

10 DMI Table Customization
Run the following command in diagOS to modify DMI table product name value,
eepromtool --eeprom=ideeprom --set 0x21="VEP1425-v210"
Deleting TLV 0x21: Product Name
Adding TLV 0x21: Product Name
Programming passed
TlvInfo Header:
Id String: TlvInfo
Version: 1
Total Length: 182
TLV Name Code Len Value
-------------------- ---- --- -----
Part Number 0x22 6 0GMC7D
Serial Number 0x23 20 TW0GMC7DDNT0094A0003
Base MAC Address 0x24 6 50:9A:4C:DB:96:F0
Manufacture Date 0x25 19 04/10/2019 10:55:16
Device Version 0x26 1 1
Label Revision 0x27 3 X00
Platform Name 0x28 22 x86_64-dellemc_vep1425
MAC Addresses 0x2A 2 64
Manufacturer 0x2B 5 DNT00
Country Code 0x2C 2 TW
Vendor Name 0x2D 8 Dell EMC
Diag Version 0x2E 12 3.43.3.81-12
Service Tag 0x2F 7 H6QFXC2
Vendor Extension 0xFD 21 0x00 0x00 0x02 0xA2 0x20 0xCB 0x92 0xF0 0x42 0x2C 0x63
0x4C 0x4F 0x88 0x55 0x3E 0x92 0x40 0x3B 0xE4 0x3A
Product Name 0x21 12 VEP1425-v210
CRC-32 0xFE 4 0xE5F8F739

Checksum is valid.
It takes a while to run this command
After that, power off and power on the system and run this command in diagOS to check the
product name value.
dmidecode -t 1
# dmidecode 3.1
Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs.
SMBIOS 3.0.0 present.
Handle 0x0001, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
System Information
Manufacturer: Dell EMC
Product Name: VEP1425-v210
Version: X00
Serial Number: H6QFXC2
UUID: CB92F042-2C63-4C4F-8855-3E92403BE43A
Wake-up Type: Power Switch
SKU Number: 0GMC7D
Family: VEP1400-X

11 Upgrade BIOS
Download BIOS file from this link,

https://dell.box.com/s/6q25swsziw8wnxklqakmv93hbhkaaata
For VEP1400_DIAG_OS_3.43.3.81-13 or newer diagOS,

Run this command in diagOS to upgrade BIOS,
updatetool --dev=BIOS --update --file=./VEP1400-X-BIOS-3.48.0.9-4.bin
Write image to BIOS
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| AMI Firmware Update Utility Manufacture for Dell Nv5.11.06.1854|
| Copyright (C)2018 American Megatrends Inc. All Rights Reserved. |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Reading flash ............... done
- ME Data Size checking . ok
- FFS checksums ......... ok
- Check RomLayout ........ ok.
Erasing Main Block .......... done
Updating Main Block ......... done
Verifying Main Block ........ done
Erasing Boot Block .......... done
Updating Boot Block ......... done
Verifying Boot Block ........ done
- Update success for FDR
- Update success for GBEA
- Update success for GBEB
- Successful Update Recovery Loader to OPRx!!
- Successful Update MFSB!!
- Successful Update FTPR!!
- Successful Update factory data partitions!!

- ME Entire Image update success !!
WARNING : System must power-off to have the changes take effect!
write BIOS image success
Update BIOS image success
Then power off and power on the unit
For VEP1400_DIAG_OS_3.43.3.81-12 or older diagOS,
Run this command in diagOS to upgrade BIOS,
updatetool -D BIOS -U -e VEP1400-BIOS-3.43.0.9-6f.1-40.biin -O "/p /b /n /me"

12 Upgrade CPLD
Download CPLD from this link,

https://dell.box.com/s/p13awov518d7p9zdoswnh8hdgs12xko0
To upgrade CPLD,
Copy the cpld file from USB to local hard disc and run the following command from diagOS,
updatetool --dev=CPLD --update --file=filename.vme
filename.vme is the actual CPLD file.
Once done, power off the unit and then power it back on. Run this command to check the
upgraded CPLD version from diagOS,
updatetool -D ALL -V

13 List of Supported SFP Optics
Optics and cables supported on Dell VEP14xx and Edge6xx products

AH, updated 4/05/2019
NOTE1: 2 and 4-core SKUs support only 1G SFP’s

NOTE2: 8 and 16-core SKUs support 10G SFP+ and dual-rate optics (1G/10G) compliant with SFF-8431 standard but not single-speed 1G
SFP’s
Item SFP Type Reach, Type Dell Model # Dell Part # Manufacturer Mfr Part Number Max
Range
1 SFP 1000Base-T SFP-1G-T XTY28 Finisar FCLF8521P2BTL-DL 100m
2 SFP SX SFP-1G-SX GF76J Finisar FTLF8519P3BNL-FC 300m
(OM1),
550m
(OM2)
3 SFP LX SFP-1G-LX J6FGD Finisar FTLF1318P3BTL-FC 10Km
4 SFP BX10 SFP-1G-BX10-U 3Y4TF Molex TRBUG1CFBCDELE2G 10Km
5 SFP BX10 SFP-1G-BX10-D H4DHD Molex TRBUG1CBBCDELE2G 10Km
6 SFP+ SR SFP-10G-SR WTRD1 Finisar FTLX8574D3BCL-FC 300m
JDSU PLRXPL-SC-S43-811
Avago AFBR-709SMZ-FT1
7 SFP+ SR SFP-10G-SR-12 5250G Finisar FTLX8574D3BCL-FC 300m
8 SFP+ SR N/A, Intel OEM part, XYD50 Intel 942697 100m
dual-rate 1G/10G (AFBR-709DMZ-IN3) (OM3),
150m
(OM4)
9 SFP+ LR SFP-10G-LR RN84N Finisar FTLX1471D3BCL-FC 10Km
Avago AFCT-739SMZ-FT1
10 SFP+ BX10 SFP-10G-BX10-U 85Y13 Molex TRBCXGFABCDELE2G 10Km
11 SFP+ BX10 SFP-10G-BX10-D 1HCGH Molex TRBCXGFWBCDELE2G 10Km

12 SFP+ Passive, DAC DAC-SFP-10G-0.5M C6Y7M Amphenol 616740000, 0.5m
0.5m
Range
NDCCDA-D103
Luxshare-ICT L56SF016-SD-R
13 SFP+ Passive, DAC 1m DAC-SFP-10G-1M V250M Amphenol 616740001, 1m
NDCCDA-D101
14 SFP+ Passive, DAC 2m DAC-SFP-10G-2M 5CWK6 Dell 616740002 2m
Dell L56SF025-SD-R
15 SFP+ Passive, DAC 3m DAC-SFP-10G-3M 53HVN Amphenol 616740003, 3m
NDCCDA-D102
16 SFP+ Passive, DAC 5m DAC-SFP-10G-5M 358VV Amphenol 616740005, 5m
NDCCDE-D102

17 SFP+ Passive, DAC 7m DAC-SFP-10G-7M MV799 Amphenol 616740007, 7m
NDCCDE-D103
18 SFP+ Active, AOC 2m AOC-SFP-10G-2M YJF03 Finisar FCBG110SD1C02-FC 2m
19 SFP+ Active, AOC 3m AOC-SFP-10G-3M P9GND Finisar FCBG110SD1C03-FC 3m
20 SFP+ Active, AOC 5m AOC-SFP-10G-5M T1KCN Finisar FCBG110SD1C05-FC 5m
21 SFP+ Active, AOC 7m AOC-SFP-10G-7M 1DXKP Finisar FCBG110SD1C07-FC 7m
22 SFP+ Active, AOC 10m AOC-SFP-10G-10M MT7R2 Finisar FCBG110SD1C10-FC 10m
23 SFP+ Active, AOC 15m AOC-SFP-10G-15M K0T7R Finisar FCBG110SD1C15-FC 15m
24 SFP+ Active, AOC 20m AOC-SFP-10G-20M W5G04 Finisar FCBG110SD1C20-FC 20m
25 QSFP+ to 4x Active, AOC, AOC-QSFP-4SFP- D7M6H Finisar FCBN510QE2C10-FC 10m
SFP+ breakout 10m 10G10M
26 QSFP+ to 4x Active, AOC, AOC-QSFP-4SFP- 6GW14 Finisar FCBN510QE2C30-FC 30m
Range
27 QSFP+ to 4x Passive, DAC DAC-QSFP-4SFP-10G- P4YPY Amphenol 616760000 0.5m
SFP+ breakout 0.5m 0.5M Luxshare-ICT L56QF022-SD-R
28 QSFP+ to 4x Passive, DAC DAC-QSFP-4SFP- TCPM2 Amphenol 616760001 1m
SFP+ breakout 1m 10G1M Luxshare-ICT L56QF023-SD-R
29 QSFP+ to 4x Passive, DAC DAC-QSFP-4SFP- JNPF8 Dell 616760002 2m
SFP+ breakout 2m 10G2M Dell L56QF032-SD-R
30 QSFP+ to 4x Passive, DAC DAC-QSFP-4SFP- 27GG5 Dell 616760003 3m
SFP+ breakout 3m 10G3M Dell L56QF024-SD-R
31 QSFP+ to 4x Passive, DAC DAC-QSFP-4SFP- P8T4W Amphenol 616760005 5m
SFP+ breakout 5m 10G5M Luxshare-ICT L56QF030-SD-R
32 QSFP+ to 4x Passive, DAC DAC-QSFP-4SFP- JR54Y Amphenol 616760007 7m

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Two SFP ports 6 GB ports, 2 Intel X553 ports

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It’s CP2101 drive

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Burn a bootable USB thumb driver using this ISO file,

Use GPT and UEFI mode

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After burning the USB drive

Add console=ttyS0,115200 to the linux image line

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Burn a bootable USB with DD option

Configure BIOS, CSM as UEFI only

Select USB with partition 1 suffix

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Login with root/calvin credential

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Configure BIOS to boot from USB stick

BIOS setting, CSM

Hit enter on CSM Configuration

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Hit enter on the first boot option

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Hit enter on the first grub menu option

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Select Yes and hit enter

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Select Yes and hit enter

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Select Continue and hit enter