Hi Shine,

Thank you for helping. These are R630 servers. The NIC are 10G 2p X540-t adapters. Please let me know if this can be directly upgraded to the target version.

Thanks and Regards,

Tom Pinto.

@pintot  You can directly update these components as there is no major gap between current and targeted version. Can you share the server model and network card details so that we can check exact details. 

There is no hard rule on upgrade path. It is not recommended to directly update from very old FW to latest FW as it may result in unforeseen behavior. I would recommend to choose one FW from each year based on release date and perform staged update. If there are multiple component of the server which have old firmware level, it is  recommended to perform stage update of all components in parallel rather than updating one component to latest by stage update then moving to another component.

Shine, Thank you again. These 13G nodes are part of a PowerFlex system and we going to the firmware version that the RCM lists. I see 9.5.12 is listed as the target version for 14G nodes on the same RCM.

For now, we will get to the target versions directly. For future upgrades, what documentation do we refer to, to understand the upgrade path?

Thanks and Regards,

Tom Pinto.

Hi Tom.

Like Shine mentioned, if there are major releases between you should update step-by-step from one major version to the next.

There is no strict update plan, but we offer some solutions that might help you in further updating.
Please take a look at our knowledge base article Updating Firmware and Drivers on Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers: https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/000128194

You will find several options to update your systems.

BR
Stefan

Hi Stefan,

Thank you for your input. Will consider the guidelines in the article.

Thanks and Regards,

Tom Pinto.