Unable to provision Bare Metal Host (BMH) on Dell PowerEdge servers with iDRAC 10

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

  • Dell Intel PowerEdge series servers can not setup bare metal hosts using iDRAC 10
  • Metal3/BMH cannot provision either via redfish or idrac virtualmedia driver

The following error is observed:

2025-04-30 11:11:57.298 1 ERROR ironic.conductor.task_manager [None req-483cfeff-4cb6-49dc-b5b0-ca393491bbfd - - - - - -] Node 22da0c3a-fe71-4ef6-b8fb-c7af56fa5df3 moved to provision state "deploy failed" from state "deploying"; target provision state is "active": ironic.common.exception.RedfishError: Redfish exception occurred. Error: In system 4c4c4544-0050-3210-8043-b6c04f4c3834 for node 22da0c3a-fe71-4ef6-b8fb-c7af56fa5df3 all managers failed: set virtual boot device. Errors: ['Manager 34384c4f-c0b6-4380-3210-00504c4c4544: HTTP POST https://ocpcgywrk0402-i/redfish/v1/Managers/iDRAC.Embedded.1/Actions/Oem/OemManager.ImportSystemConfiguration returned code 400. Base.1.18.GeneralError: The value \'ALL\' for the property Target is not a type that the property can accept. Extended information: [{\'MessageId\': \'Base.1.18.PropertyValueTypeError\', \'MessageArgs\': [\'ALL\', \'Target\'], \'RelatedProperties\': [], \'Message\': "The value \'ALL\' for the property Target is not a type that the property can accept.", \'Severity\': \'Warning\', \'Resolution\': \'Correct the value for the property in the request body and resubmit the request if the operation failed.\'}, {\'MessageId\': \'IDRAC.2.11.SYS424\', \'MessageArgs\': [\'ALL\', \'Target\'], \'RelatedProperties\': [], \'Message\': \'Unable to complete the operation because the value ALL entered for the property Target is of different type than the property can accept.\', \'Severity\': \'Warning\', \'Resolution\': "Enter a valid value in the expected type for the property in the request body and retry the operation.For information about valid values, see the iDRAC User\'s Guide available on the support site."}]']

Environment

  • Platform: OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) 4.x
  • Cluster Type: Bare Metal
  • Hardware: Dell Servers with iDRAC (Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller) 10
    • PowerEdge R670

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