Owner's Manual

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•Click Browse to navigate to the file location where you have saved
the catalog. Ensure that the catalog resides on a CIFS share that is
accessible to the Dell Lifecycle Controller of the system.
•Specify the
User Name and Password to the CIFS share where
your catalog resides if you want to update the firmware inventory
from the catalog. You do not need to specify the user name and
password if you are viewing or comparing against the catalog.
–
FTP: ftp.dell.com — to connect to the Dell FTP site and download
the updates.
–
Firmware inventory profile — to compare against an existing profile
and update the firmware of the system. Click
Browse and navigate to
the location where you have saved the profile.
2 Click Next . The screen displays the firmware details of the servers in your
collection and also the baseline version of the firmware.
3 Select the servers, which you want to update with newer firmware and click
Next . The firmware download progress window is displayed.
4 When the firmware download is complete, click Next to proceed to
configure the hardware of the systems.
Configuring BIOS During Operating System Deployment
To configure the hardware:
1
Click Browse and select the hardware profile that you created using the
System Viewer . This profile is applied during the operating system
deployment process. For more information on creating hardware profiles,
see Creating A New Profile.
2 Select Continue on Error if you want to proceed to the next step even if
this step fails. This option is enabled when you select
Configure BIOS . If
you clear this option, the hardware configuration process is aborted when
it encounters an error.
3 Click Next to proceed to configure RAID.
Configuring RAID
To configure RAID:
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