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November 14th, 2022 13:00

Is there a firmware/drivers patching utility?

I've changed jobs, moved from a very large organization as a communications infrastructure (router/switch/wireless/vpn/etc) admin/engineer; culture changed, valued people/peers/friends/managers left; what remained could not overcome. I'm now with a very small organization, scope of job has widened since being hired. I'm now the only IT person here.

I've not managed a server platform since the 90s. I'm fundamentally new to being a Systems Admin?

I have some new Dell PowerEdge R650xs servers (with iDRAC express licenses), with Windows Server 2019. Before these are put into production with our app installed, I thought it would be a good idea to update the drivers and firmware from Dell.

Is there a firmware/driver patching utility that people use to know what is available? Is it something that puts everything in a table or such, here's the version your on, here's a recommended/critical version you can have (the utility) pushed to the server?

I really don't know what I don't know. I'm hoping that there is a a simple tool to use to get this updated. Can someone help fill in the blanks?

Thanks.

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November 14th, 2022 18:00

You can refer below link for different methods to update a PowerEdge Server

https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-in/000128194/updating-firmware-and-drivers-on-dell-emc-poweredge-servers 

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November 15th, 2022 12:00

Since the servers have WS19, I would open SUU (Server Update Utility) which will give you a table list of current and available FW.

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