The Server Administrator Update Service provides the ability to update your
system's BIOS remotely from within the Server Administrator GUI. The Update
Service also provides interfaces for updating many firmware and driver packages.
The remote BIOS capability does not require that you be logged in directly to
the system whose BIOS you are updating. If the target system has the minimum
required BIOS version installed, you can update the BIOS to the latest version remotely.
The purpose of this section is to help you to identify the minimum prerequisite
BIOS version to update to the latest available BIOS for each supported Dell PowerEdge
system.
This section
lists the minimum BIOS requirements for upgrading to the latest BIOS version
available for each Dell PowerEdge system supported by
Server Administrator. You can download the latest BIOS versions from the
Dell Support website at support.dell.com.
NOTE: This guide is updated
only once per business quarter. To ensure that you have the latest BIOS
version available, always download the latest BIOS versions from the
Dell Support website at support.dell.com.
To locate the BIOS update files that you want, perform the steps
in the following subsections.
Downloading the Latest BIOS Packages
Go to the Dell Support website at support.dell.com and click the Downloads link.
Under Choose a Dell System: select your PowerEdge system model name, for example, PowerEdge 300 and click
Go!.
The Dell Downloads - Select Your Criteria Web page
appears.
For 1)Select a download category, select Flash
BIOS Updates. For categories 2) and 3), select Not Applicable and
click Go!.
Click the link Dell Server System BIOS.
The Dell Downloads - Select Your Result Web page appears.
Select the BIOS package that is appropriate for your update
method:
a. Click Dell Server System BIOS <version number>.
A description of how to use each package appears in the table.
b. For a BIOS update that requires you to use diskettes
to install the update, double-click .exe.
c. For a BIOS package that works with the Server Administrator
Update Service, click .zip.
Table 1 lists the latest available BIOS
version for each system that Server Administrator
supports. Table 1 also lists
the minimum version of the BIOS that must be installed on each system for the latest
flash BIOS package to be applied by remote update.
Table 1. PowerEdge Systems and Minimum BIOS Versions Required for
Remote Flash Update
