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Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter with Dell Repository Manager
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This feature is helpful in determining if there are hosts that do not have the latest firmware from your
configured repository.
Updating a custom repository using Dell Repository Manager
Getting updates from ftp.dell.com
Dell Repository Manager makes it easy to check your local repository for updates against updates
posted on ftp.dell.com.
With update and compare functionality on a bundle-by-bundle basis, Dell Repository Manager is the
best tool to establish custom baselines for your virtualized environment’s firmware and keep it up to
date.
Dell Repository Manager’s documentation on keeping your local repository up to date is a great way to
learn about how to keep firmware being consumed by the Dell Management Plug-In current with the
latest fixes available from Dell.com.
Saving updates to Dell Management Plug-In configured repository
Once new updates are selected, saving the repository downloads the new updates to the repository
location and updates the Catalog.xml to reflect the changes. If the repository location is not the
configured share for the Dell Management Plug-in, copy the repository files to the Dell Management
Plug-in share location.
The next time the Firmware Wizard runs, the new updates and bundles will be available.
Conclusion
Creating custom repositories lets you manage your firmware update lifecycle directly. Custom
repositories let you pick and choose which updates are available to hosts inside their environment.
Keeping a custom repository is useful if iDRACs in the environment do not have direct access to
ftp.dell.com.