processor upgrading of DELL Power Edge R430

Question

Hi Everyone I have DELL Power Edge R430 and it's running on single socket processor E 2603 V3. As per DELL that this server is support E 2600 V4 family. Know the questions are below: If I upgrade the processor from E 2603 V3 to E 2630 V4 what causes I will faced or it will work fine without any issue of BIOS and Clock? What precautions I need to take before doing this activity? Is there any need to update BIOS and changes in Clock? (if yes) How can I do that? In the server there are multiple Virtual Machines are running if I change the processor so if will effect my VM's?

DELL-Shine K · Answer

Before upgrading processor you need to update BIOS and iDRAC to latest firmware level. You can download latest BIOS and iDRAC FW for R430 from below links

BIOS

https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-in/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=1vr7t&oscode=w12r2&productcode=poweredge-r430

iDRAC

https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-in/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=dpv0r&oscode=w12r2&productcode=poweredge-r430

You can use iDRAC only to update BIOS and iDRAC. Refer below link for more details. Upgrading BIOS need a reboot of the server.

https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-in/000134013/dell-poweredge-update-the-firmware-of-single-system-components-remotely-using-the-idrac

https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-in/000128194/updating-firmware-and-drivers-on-dell-emc-poweredge-servers

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