Owner's Manual

supports the device requires that you restart the computer. You must restart your computer before the
new settings will take effect. Do you want to restart your computer now?”
Select “No” to ignore this message. This message is due to the creation of a temporary USB device used
for storing the firmware image. If you select “Yes”, the firmware update process stops.
DRAC 5 firmware
Before updating the DRAC firmware, ensure that the following conditions are met:
- USB is enabled
- IPMI is working properly
- DRAC Virtual Flash is not in use by the operating system or another application
- WMI service is running
Power Supply Unit firmware
Power Supply Unit firmware updates can be performed only on Life Cycle Controller enabled systems.
All PERC firmware and all SAS firmware (All storage controller firmware)
• Only devices connected to a PERC SAS controller can be updated at this time. This includes PERC5,
PERC6, H200, H700, H800, SAS5 and SAS6 controllers.
• Do not run storage controller update packages if the controller is in use by other applications.
The firmware upgrade may fail if any of the RAID controllers in the system are performing an I/O
background task (consistency check, background initialization, rebuild, or reconstruction). Allow the
background task to complete before attempting to upgrade the firmware. "Patrol Read" tasks will not
affect a firmware upgrade.
PowerVault firmware
The PowerVault update procedure requires the RAID controller to be in a known good state. If a problem
occurs with the RAID controller during the update procedure, the Update Packages cannot communicate
with the PowerVault system, inventory its firmware version, or perform the update. (138462)
PowerVault MD1000 firmware
• Stop all input/output to the PowerVault MD1000 before running the PowerVault MD1000 firmware
update package.
• WARNING: THE SERVER MUST BE REBOOTED AFTER UPDATING THE FIRMWARE ON MD1000
ENCLOSURES IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN ENCLOSURE MANAGEMENT. ACCESS TO THE ENCLOSURES WILL
BE LOST IF THE SERVER IS NOT REBOOTED.
• When prompted for reboot after the update, select "Yes".
PowerVault 100T DDS4 firmware and all PowerVault 110T firmware (110T DDS4, 110T DAT72, 110T
LTO1, 110T LTO2, 110T LTO2-L, 110T LTO3-HH, 110T LTO4, 110T SDLT320, 110T LTO3, 110T DLT
VS80, 110T DLT VS160, and 110T SDLT)