Dell Update Packages for Microsoft Windows Version 7.
This Readme contains updated information for the Dell Update Packages Version 7.1 User's Guide and any other technical documentation included with the Dell Update Packages for Windows operating systems. What’s New • DUP Support for PCIe-SSD firmware and driver. Hardware and Software Requirements Dell Update Packages offer ease and flexibility for updating the system software on Dell PowerEdge(TM) systems.
• Power Supply firmware • Broadcom Network Adapter Firmware Minimum Requirements The Update Packages support Dell systems running the following Windows operating systems: • • Microsoft(R) Windows Server(R) 2003 R2 Web, Standard and Enterprise Editions with SP2 (32-bit x86) Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter x64 Editions with SP2 • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter x64 Editions with SP2 • Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------DRAC firmware DRAC 4, DRAC 5, iDRAC6 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------RAID firmware PERC 4/Di, PERC 4e/Di, PERC 4e/DC, PERC 4e/Si, PERC 4/DC, PERC 4/SC, PERC H200,PERC H700 PERC H800 Adapter, PERC S300 Adapter PERC 5/E, PERC 5/i,SAS 5/i, SAS 5/iR Adapter, SAS 5/E, SAS 5/iR, SAS 6/iR, SAS 6/iR Adapter, PERC 6/E, PERC 6/i, PERC 6/i Adapter, CERC 6
contains feature enhancements or changes that will help keep the system software current and compatible with other system modules (firmware, BIOS, drivers, and software). Open Issues and Resolutions Fixed Issues/def For all Dell Update Packages • On systems with a FAT32 partition as the boot drive, you cannot execute DUPs and the inventory collector used by SUU as FAT32 does not support access control lists. • Do not run other applications while executing Dell Update Packages.
• If you login to a system running on Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2008 operating system, by default you are logged in as a regular user even though you may have Administrator privileges. This is due to an in-built feature called User Account Control (UAC) that automatically reduces the potential of security breaches. Before you run DUPs on the system, elevate the privileges for administrators using Windows security options in Group Policy Editor. For more information, see the DUPs User Guide.
• BIOS DUP will use LC to update BIOS. BIOS DUP will stage the BIOS firmware to maser partition and create a SSIB update task, which is executed by the SSM manager on reboot. The update task in the SSIB is a call to update wrapper in LC which has BIOS update logic. BIOS • A BIOS update requires enough free physical memory to load the entire BIOS image into the physical memory.
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.
• Before executing the firmware update, stop all tape backup activity and put all scheduled jobs on hold. • After the firmware update is completed, restart the system for the updates to take effect. • Tape automation devices are not supported by Dell Update Packages. Please disconnect or power off such devices before executing Dell Update Packages. The tape automation devices are as follows: 1. PowerVault 120T 2. PowerVault 122T 3. PowerVault 124T 4. PowerVault 128T 5. PowerVault 130T 6.
