Users Guide

Non-Interactive Mode

When a fresh installation is applicable, executing DUPs with the /s switch installs the driver.

For example, packagename.exe /s and packagename.exe /s /r performs fresh installation of driver DUPs.

NOTE: Not all driver DUPs support fresh installation. See the

Dell Update Packages for Microsoft Windows Operating Systems

readme

le for the list of drivers that do not support fresh installation.

Installation Order of DUPs

If you are installing multiple DUPs, install the updates that require a reboot at the end. For recommended installation order see the following

table.

Table 1. Update Packages: Recommended Installation Order

Installation Order System Software Components

iDRAC with Lifecycle controller/iDRAC/Lifecycle controller

2 Diagnostics applications

3 Drivers for OS Deployment

4 Applications

5 Device Drivers

6 Device Firmware (RAID, NIC, PSU, CPLD)

7 BIOS

NOTE: If you have updated the BIOS, power supply rmware, PERC rmware, PCIeSSD rmware, Mellanox, Emulex rmware

and driver, chipset and video drivers, Intel, QLogic and Broadcom rmware the changes to the components take eect only after

you reboot the system. On 13G systems onwards, the SAS expander rmware does not require a reboot.

NOTE: For a single reboot, install the ESM rmware update before the BIOS update.

NOTE: On 12G systems onwards, the iDRAC and Lifecycle Controller has common DUP update.

Best practices for using DUPs

• Prepare repair disks before you perform any updates.

• Download the currently installed version of drivers, BIOS, and rmware, so that you have a backup plan in case of any issues.

• Make sure that you have a backup of operating system les or system conguration les stored on a system other than the one you are

updating.

• Make sure that the updates are planned for and performed by the system administrator who knows which applications could be

aected.

• Before updating all systems, perform the upgrade on one nonessential system to test the update.

• Do not run other applications while executing DUPs.

• On a Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine, while updating the host operating system components, ensure that the guest operating

systems are not running.

• Do not shut down the system while an update is in progress.

• Make sure that the system reboots without power interruption after performing a BIOS update.

• Do not close any terminal console windows used for performing the DUP CLI execution, while DUP executions are in progress.

Getting Started