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5 Dell EMC PowerEdge Updates Best Practices Guide (BPG)
Executive summary
Keeping your business-critical operations in your data center is key to run your IT infrastructure effectively. In
this process, you are always faced with the challenge of keeping the driver, BIOS, and firmware versions of
your PowerEdge server updated. This will also enhance system security, performance, and support new
Operating Systems (OSs).
The three principal elements in your System Update strategy are:
 Create and maintain a baseline
 Get updates about the newly available updates
 Deploy and test the available updates
Dell EMC provides enterprise-level and easy-to-use applications that help you plan and execute your update
strategy will less manual effort. A few of such applications discussed in this BPG are:
 Dell EMC Repository Manager (DRM)
 Dell EMC iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller
 Dell OpenManage Enterprise
 Dell Chassis Management Controller (CMC)