User's Manual

What's New In This Release

• DUP Support for PCIe-SSD firmware and driver.

NOTE: Firmware update for PCIe-SSD device is supported on RHLE5_x64, SLES10_x64 and windows operating

systems.

NOTE: DUPs for Dell Lifecycle Controller OS Driver packs are no longer available on the

Dell OpenManage Server

Update

media.

Feature Overview

This section describes the overview of the Server Update Utility (SUU) supported features.

DUP Support for PCIe-SSD firmware and driver

Dell PowerEdge Express Flash Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) Solid State Device (SSD) is a high

performance storage device designed for solutions requiring low latency, high input output operations per second

(IOPS), and enterprise class storage reliability and serviceability. The Dell PowerEdge Express Flash PCIe SSD is based

on Single Level Cell (SLC) NAND flash technology with a high-speed PCIe 2.0 compliant interface. The high-speed PCIe

2.0 compliant interface helps improve the performance for I/O bound solutions.

NOTE: Firmware update for PCIe-SSD device is supported on RHLE5_x64, SLES10_x64 and windows operating

systems.

QLogic Network Interface Card

Added firmware and driver update support for QLogic NIC cards.

Intel Network Interface Card

Added firmware and driver update support for Intel NIC cards.

Emulex Network Interface Card

Added firmware and driver update support for Emulex NIC cards.

Daisy Chained SEP and Expander

For 7.0 and later releases, internal Backplanes are cascaded together to extended available Hard Disk Drive (HDD) on a

system. DUP now supports flashing upstream and downstream backplane, where upstream and downstream can be

Storage Enclosure Processor (SEP) or Expander Backplane.

SWRAID 3.0

S110 is a new software Raid adapter supported in 7.0 release. DUP now supports updating of the S110 Driver.