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I have a pair of PowerEdge R630s currently running VMWare ESXi 6.5. We are updating to ESXi 6.7 but I want to update the BIOS and iDRAC firmware first.
Current BIOS: 2.5.5
Current iDRAC: 2.50.50.50
I was planning on updating the iDRAC first then the BIOS in the following succession:
iDRAC 2.70.70.70
BIOS 2.10.5
iDRAC 2.83.83.83
BIOS 2.14.0
Am I skipping too many versions? Should I update the BIOS by each urgent release instead? This would be 7 updates per server.
Thanks!
DELL-Shine K
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Posted April 18th, 2022 21:00
The sequence you mentioned looks good. I would recommend to add 2.8.0 and 2.60.60.60 also to the sequence
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Posted April 18th, 2022 22:00
Hi, as Shine says it's safer going through bridge firmwares since certain "major" updates require previous version, WHICH at times are written in RN (release notes) of each BIOS.
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I've been through the release notes for every BIOS update from our current version, 2.5.5, to the most current version, 2.14.0, and I don't see anything saying a previous version is required.
I did see that in order to update the iDRAC you had to update to at least 2.70.70.70 before you could updated to 2.83.83.83. I was hoping the BIOS would have the same type of information in the release notes.
Thanks again for the reply and the information. This is very helpful. Our update is scheduled for this weekend so we have a few more days to get everything ironed out.
I hope you don't hit this problem:
https://www.reddit.com/r/vmware/comments/udodo0/avoid_dell_bios_2140_on_r730/
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Posted May 28th, 2022 00:00
interstingly.. i have dell r630 with bios version 2.14.0
but in right now latest version is 2.13.0
so where is the 2.14.0 for dell r630?
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Posted May 29th, 2022 15:00
Hi I looked up and that version is currently not available. It will be re- released in the future, but please understand we don't have a concrete date yet.
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Posted November 18th, 2024 00:10
Hello, https://dell.to/3CzzWrC I think this is the latest. No need to upgrade one by one, you can jump over.
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