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June 18th, 2015 06:00
Unable to update firmware on 720xd via lifecycle controller
Hi,
i have several 720xd chassis where i have a hard time updating to the latest firmware.
If i boot the machine in the lifecycle controller and select firmware updates and mount the latest SUU dvd i can see that it needs PSU and NIC firmware updates.
But both of these fail everytime I try!
After this i tried booting with the SBUU dvd and then selecting firmware, change mounted DVD to SUU and select DVD repo.
What is interesting, is that i can then also see that all the HDDs need firmware updates, but not the NICs. and the PSU. But in this way none of the firmware will be updated.
So how am i supposed to get this right?
I also have some issues with the newer 730xd's but that is yet another story :|
DELL-Chris H
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June 18th, 2015 09:00
MoRRis,
The easiest ways to update the iDrac would be to download and extract the iDRAC__1.66.65_A00.exe version of this download. Once downloaded, extract the files to the folder. Once that is completed then get the firmimg.d7 file and save it to a USB. From there access the iDrac and select the UPDATE tab, you can then browse to the .d7 file location and select the file. The iDrac should update upon completion.
Regarding the remaining hardware, depending on OS installed, you should be able to run the current SUU and it will update. You can also access the Lifecycle Controllers Platform update, and let it use the FTP site to update with.
Let me know if this helps.
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June 18th, 2015 10:00
hi, the DRAC's are already to the latest firmware since they can easily be done out of bound.
The network is completely separated so the FTP option from within the lifecycle controller is no option. Apart from that, the lifecycle controller aparently can't do firmware for the harddisks?
The OS for 2 of the machines is VMware ESXi, so i don't think the SUU wil work on that. There is no regular console you can run stuff from. The other is a propriatary appliance/os, so using the OS is not an option.
But anyway, I already tried the lifecycle controller with a mounted SUU CD, and it fails. So something is going wrong here with Dells software and controllers. most combinations apparently don't allow you to update all firmware components :(