Deployment Guide

Verifying hard drive firmware version

1. Start an elevated PowerShell Administrator CLI.

2. Run the following command.

shmcli list drives –a=0

3. Ensure that the storage devices used are of the same type: SSDs or HDDs. The firmware must also be

of the same versions. For more information about compatible firmware versions, see the Dell Storage

with Microsoft Storage Spaces Support Matrix

available at Dell.com/dsmsmanuals.

Updating physical disks

If any of the physical disks do not have appropriate firmware versions, update the physical disks firmware.

To update the physical disk firmware, complete the following task:

1. Start a PowerShell Administrator CLI.

2. To update each hard drive, run the following command.

shmcli update drive -d=<WWN> -file = <Path to firmware file>

For more information about updating drives including updating more than one drive in an enclosure,

forcing updates, and multi-threaded updates, see the Dell Storage PowerTools Server Hardware

Manager Administrator’s Guide available at Dell.com/dsmsmanuals.