Users Guide

Updating Firmware During OS Deployment
To update the firmware:
1. Select one of the following options:
• Dell PDK catalog — to specify a Dell PDK catalog that you can use to compare the firmware inventory. To
specify a PDK catalog, do the following:
– 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 next screen displays the firmware download progress.
4. When the firmware download is complete, click Next to proceed to configure the hardware of the systems.
Configuring Hardware During OS 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 selected by
default. 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:
1. Click Browse and select the RAID profile that you created using the System Viewer utility. This profile is applied
during the operating system deployment process. For more information on creating RAID profiles, see Using the
Array Builder.
2. Click Next to configure network adapters.
NOTE: When you configure RAID settings on a system, the original controller settings of the system are reset
and the virtual disks (VDs) that are configured, or any other configuration are cleared.
Applying a NIC or CNA Profile on a Collection
NOTE: In Config Utility, if you apply an attribute value, the dependent attribute value is not checked.
Refer Lifecycle Controller documentation for supported CNAs.
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