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iDRAC Direct Updates
iDRAC provides out of band ability to update the firmware of various components of a PowerEdge server. iDRAC direct update helps in
eliminating staged jobs during updates. This is supported only for iDRAC releases 5.00.00.00 and above. Only SEP(passive) backplanes are
supported for direct updates.
iDRAC used to have staged updates to initiate firmware update of the components. From this release, Direct updates have been applied to
PSU and Backplane. With the use of Direct Updates and Backplane can have quicker updates. In case of PSU, one reboot (for initializing
the updates) is avoided and the update can happen in single reboot.
With Direct update feature in iDRAC, you can eliminate the first reboot to initiate the updates. The second reboot will be controlled by the
device itself and iDRAC notifies the user if there is need for a separate reset via job status.
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