The DGX-1 Firmware Update container version 21.06.8 is available.

Highlights and Changes in this Release

• This release is supported with the following DGX OS software.
  • DGX OS 4 (4.8 or later)
  • DGX OS 5 (May 6, 2021 Updated or later)
  • EL7-21.04 or later
  • EL8-20.11 or later
• Before using the container to update firmware on systems installed with DGX OS release 5.0 or later, first stop certain NVIDIA services. See Special Instructions for all Updates.

Contents of the DGX-1 Firmware Update Container

This container includes the firmware binaries and update utilities for the firmware listed in the following table.

Special Notes

• When updates to the BMC or PSU are initiated,
  • The BMC is (cold) reset to be put in a known good state before the update, then
  • Additional logs are gathered for troubleshooting purposes and made available in /var/log/comp_fw_log.txt.

    The logs are gathered before updating and upon completion of the update or in the event of an update failure.

• (On DGX systems installed with DGX OS 4.99.x or earlier): To prevent NVSM services from interfering with BMC and PSU updates, the container stops the following services before applying the update:
  • nvsm-apis-gpumonitor
  • nvsm-apis-plugin-storage
  • nvsm-apis-selwatcher
  • nvsm-apis-plugin-memory
  • nvsm-apis-plugin-environment
  • nvsm-sys-dshmnvsm-env-dshm
  • nvsm-storage-dshm
  System health monitor will not be available until firmware update completes.
• For the PSU update, the container implements a protective check which requires the system to be fully redundant (all four supplies are installed and in a healthy state) in order for the update to occur.

  If you are using only three of the four PSUs, the full power redundancy requirement can be overridden with the Docker run environment (DGX_MAX_PSU) as follows.

  sudo docker run --privileged -ti -v /:/hostfs <container_name> set_flags DGX_MAX_PSU=3 update_fw PSU