Dell POWEREDGE R620 User Manual

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Updating BIOS on Dell 12G PowerEdge Servers

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6. To perform a firmware update, select one of the options that are available for updating.

1 (update) BIOS Installed 159 1.0.4 BIOS

7. The script will prompt for the location of the Dell Update Package (DUP) to be used. This

location is called the Update Repository; see item 3 in Error! Reference source not found..
iDRAC supports the following download methods with source URI syntax:

FTP
ftp://[IPADDRESS]/[LOCATION]/[DUPFILENAME]

HTTP
http://[IPADDRESS]/[LOCATION]/[DUPFILENAME]

TFTP
tftp://[IPADDRESS]/[LOCATION]/[DUPFILENAME]

CIFS
cifs://[USER]:[PASSWORD]@[IPADDRESS]/[LOCATION]/[DUPFILENAME];mountpoint=[MOUNTN
AME]

NFS
nfs://[IPADDRESS]/[LOCATION]/[DUPFILENAME];mountpoint=[MOUNTNAME]

The portions of the syntax in all capital letters represent user-provided values. The [IPADDRESS] is
the IP address of the update package repository. The [LOCATION] is the path or directory. The
[DUPFILENAME] is the update package file name. The only supported update package is the “Dell
Update Package for Windows” that can be downloaded from

support.dell.com

. [USER] and

[PASSWORD] refer to the user credentials allowed to access and download from the share.
[MOUNTNAME] refers to the share mount name.

The following is a sample output:

Options

tftp://192.168.0.100/BIOS_VT7R8_WN32_1.1.0.EXE

nfs://192.168.0.100/BIOS_VT7R8_WN32_1.1.0.EXE;mountpoint=/pub

cifs://DOMAIN\\USER:[email protected]/pub/BIOS_VT7R8_WN32_1.1.0.EXE;mountpoint=E

http://192.168.0.100/BIOS_VT7R8_WN32_1.1.0.EXE

ftp://192.168.0.100/BIOS_VT7R8_WN32_1.1.0.EXE

Enter the path of the image file: tftp://192.168.0.100/BIOS_VT7R8_WN32_1.1.0.EXE

8.

The script prompts for a reboot type with which the host will be rebooted to perform the update.
Select an appropriate reboot type.

Reboot Type Options (1,2,3, and 4)

1 = Forceful shutdown and reboot

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