Owner's Manual

Updating RAC Firmware 17
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Updating RAC Firmware
After you have discovered and verified the RAC IP addresses on your network,
you can perform a firmware update on the selected RACs using the firmware
image file located on your local directory or on the Trivial File Transfer
Protocol (TFTP) server. For information to discover and verify RAC IP
addresses, see "Discovering, Importing, and Verifying RACs."
NOTE: iDRAC6 Enterprise for blade servers supports firmware updates using only
the TFTP server.
To update RAC firmware:
1 Discover and verify the RAC IP addresses on your network. For more
information, see "Discovering, Importing, and Verifying RACs."
2
In the Firmware Update Configuration window, under Specify firmware
location
, select one of the following options to specify the location of the
firmware image files:
•
From TFTP Server - Enter the location on the TFTP server where the
firmware image files are stored. If the image files are stored at the root,
enter only the IP address. If the image files are stored in a folder, enter
the IP address and the path.
•
From Local Directory - Click Browse and specify the location of the
firmware image files on your local directory.
All firmware image files for different RACs must reside in the same folder.
The DRACT tool uses the correct firmware image file based on the file
name extension. Currently, all RACs have different image file name
extensions based on the RAC type. The file name extensions are:
•DRAC 4—
firmimg.d1
•DRAC 5— firmimg.d5
• iDRAC6 for rack and tower servers— firmimg.d6
• iDRAC6 for blade servers— firmimg.imc
•CMC— firmimg.cmc
NOTE: Only the default file names are accepted and other file names are not
recognized. Ensure that you do not change the default file names.