{"id":519,"date":"2017-03-13T22:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T22:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flat-planet.net\/?p=519"},"modified":"2017-03-13T22:00:30","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T22:00:30","slug":"updating-an-old-firmware-on-a-dell-r710","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/?p=519","title":{"rendered":"Updating an old firmware on a Dell R710"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently purchased a Dell R710 as part of a buildout for my homelab, and as part of that process, wanted to update all the software. This consists of;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BIOS &#8211; running 6.0.4, current is 6.4 so not too bad<\/li>\n<li>iDRAC &#8211; running 1.10, current is 2.85, so a good leap<\/li>\n<li>PERC6 &#8211; no idea<\/li>\n<li>Lifecycle Controller &#8211; no idea<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Given that the only OS installed is ESXi I had a bit of googling to figure this one out.<\/p>\n<p>In theory the Lifecycle Controller has an Platform Update option that will just do all this for you&#8230; unfortunately this seemed to be missing on mine.<\/p>\n<p>To get everything up and running, the following process worked for me;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Download, and extract the firmimg.d6 file from the iDRAC updater. This will allow your iDRAC to updated to something modern enough not to give certificate\/security\/browser errors. Use the iDRAC firmware update option to get this installed<\/li>\n<li>Use the iDRAC firmware update page to load the USC\/LC repair package (.usc extension)<\/li>\n<li>Reload and the Lifecycle Controller will now have a Platform Update option &#8211; use that to update everything else via FTP from dells website<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>NOTE: The Lifecycle controller uses the inbuilt NIC rather then the iDRAC ethernet interface<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently purchased a Dell R710 as part of a buildout for my homelab, and as part of that process, wanted to update all the software. This consists of; BIOS &#8211; running 6.0.4, current is 6.4 so not too bad iDRAC &#8211; running 1.10, current is 2.85, so a good leap PERC6 &#8211; no idea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[327,9,209,329,328,110,330],"series":[],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dell","tag-esxi","tag-firmware","tag-homelab","tag-r710","tag-server","tag-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520,"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions\/520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=519"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}