Manually Updating the Firmwares on a Dell PowerEdge R610

[@Evanmd7261]

Reference the "command not found" error, I was having an issue with the files having permission to execute from the USB drive itself. I copied and pasted the BIN files in question into the Home folder, accessed properties and selected allowed to executing as a program. then accessed the folder via command line again with the "sudo ./" command and it worked. just adding what worked for me here.

[@dan9485786]

Thanks man I was about to start pulling my hair out

[@fordsrmaster]

Oh thank you so much. I was thinking that I was doing something wrong. I did exactly what you said and the updates started to work.

[@Akira1G]

Thanks for the tip man, had the same problem

[@sanjaybelkhode1103]

I'm normally an HP guy, but landed some R610 servers on the cheap, so I set about setting the dang things up. Thank you so much for this video! I too spend a billion hours trying to figure this out! You saved me even more hours of work trying to figure how to update with a BIN file. HP makes it much simpler, regardless - well done!

[@RollsRoyceFanatics]

Is there any better weekend than drinking some beers and playing with some servers?

[@A10-p1q1n]

yeah, the same thing but with COCAINE!

[@CheeseZombieo]

Puffin a joint, coffee and coding has always been a favourite

[@Reziac]

LoL, someone asked what I was doing for New Year's and I said, "playing with my new server" :D I have an R510... still baffled by the thing...

[@RJWaynerium]

This was a lifesaver for my T610. Dell didn't even have the CENTOS iso available for this server so I didn't know about it's existence. To make matters worse my idrac was out of date to the point where the web interface was inaccessible due to the ssh protocols being so out of date. The bios upgrade was a dramatic 2.1.9 to 6.6.0. You saved my server good sir.

[@Bonemanwalkin]

Someone shared this with me on reddit... Spent a week fretting and researching.. this video really helped and I will try it this weekend for my t410

[@robwillisinfo]

Haha, been there, done that...and that's exactly why I took the time to make the video...I have felt the pain. :) Good luck!

[@Aavon2RiPlay]

You are now officially my main source of info for my Dell R610 server :)

[@nithaeldulac]

Rob. Im trying to update a R710 for hours now - you just save my weekend man. Awesome howto! Well done with the website too. Cheers man!

[@davidw3591]

Great video Rob! Succesfully upgraded the BIOS, H700 and diagnostics of my R510 with your instructions. Wasted a lot of time on other sites.

[@NYC_Sweetelite]

hello Rob I ran the command and i got error command not found?

[@JamieLloyd]

Hey Rob I know it's been a while since you have posted but I just wanted to say I've learned a LOT from your videos. Thanks for taking the time and effort to make them for us and I hope to see more from you! ( looking to get two R610 or R710 soon ).

[@kingnick6260]

Amazing, this works well in 2020 for an R720 running off CentOS 7. I just had to copy the files to the /home/sliuser/ path, chmod +x those files (as other users mentioned), & viola!

[@inflamesc]

i have no idea how this useful channel doesnt have deserved appreciation

[@cmj20002]

I just purchased my 1st server. A Dell T620 with dual 8 core Xeon CPU's and 48 gig of ram. I also have an HP Z620 with 2 E5 2695 v2 Xeon cpu's and 96 gig of ram on that one. I have not done any updates yet. I just installed a 1TB SSD in the Z620, working great so far. Love geeking out on the weekends.

[@CassegrainSweden]

Thank you! After trying a gazillion different ways to update my R210 II, this is what worked :)

[@robwillisinfo]

Way to hang in there man! +1 for persistence! :)

[@erikpoffenberger5081]

So I just bought an R610 and I've got the image running, but when I try to install the firmware updates using the sudo command, I just get a "command not found." error. I've tried using chmod to make the .bin file executable, it'll say "permission denied." I even tried doing this after typing "sudo bash" and I still get the same errors. Any suggestions?

[@Solar_and_Security]

Dude, you were one of the reasons I Made my homelab, and then, went into threat hunting. I continue to upgrade, just landed some 730's for cheap, but you go me into the 710, and 610's back in the day.

[@adelkedjour]

Even if the tutorial is 4 years old but it's still valuable. Thanks a lot mate

[@Physics072]

Oh if you get the flash rom that plugs into the back you can use the drac 6 to have multiple bootable ISOs on the flash. I have macrium reflect boot ISO on it for making images.

[@tonyrking]

No, thank you buddy. You've been so helpful to all of us, really well done for all your work. Nicely done and you come across perfectly. Really appreciated. T.x

[@miketronix]

Thanks for the video! Commenting on your first minute...Keep on publishing the videos! You help enthusiasts who want to be working in infrastructure realted jobs to be more confident on purchasing a used server and have a hand on lab experience to be prepared for there interview.

[@bhagatbadal]

Thanks Rob really enjoying your videos.keepn us posted..

[@Physics072]

Dell Recently decommissioned the Lifecycle controller updates for the R610 (11th gen) so you can't update the firmware. For kicks I mounted a ISO on the vflash sbuu_2.4_1294_A01.iso. Which is the Dell Systems Build and Update Utility. It takes awhile but it loads and then I have to somehow let it know where the SUU-WIN32_17.12.200.229.ISO is mounted. (DELL EMC Server Update Utility) which is a 9Gb file with the firmware. I tried the virtual media option on the console and I could mount the ISO but could not link it to the update utility. Obviously I messed up somewhere. Its a super slow process just booting to it.

[@ScienceAlliance]

Awesome! Needed to update in order to allow compatibility with a new cpu I got. Well made video

[@bryanmiller8394]

Please help! I just bought these and dell has stopped support on these and can't find the correct iso files for my bios. I have a 1.3.6 bios version and running 5504 chips, upgrading to 5675 chips and need a later bios update.

[@stevenchristrajan7566]

Rob how to see idrac6 enterprise display console? im keep getting error :(

[@ogsnoop2126]

You are a life saver, honestly.

[@jeremyatkinson5967]

Thanks man, great strait forward video there

[@ultimas20]

If you're not running a CentOS compatible system, you can also get the Non-Packaged executables for flashing from a DOS image. Then just make a freedos usb and bot to that to flash. since I'm running a fairly obscure distro this is what I had to do and it's faster than doing a full OS install on a spare drive.

[@adipurnomo5683]

You are great. Sir I would ask what the advantage of having home server instead of cloud server?

[@thatoldguysgaragegym5580]

Would Hirens Boot CD and running the BIOS .exe work?

[@icheed8089]

I tried the Dell repository upgrade method on my R610 server and could not get the updates to occur. The server never picks up the updates at all.

[@regnoble21]

thank you for this!!! Finally got around to updating mine.

[@Physics072]

Forgot to mention I am doing it all remotely so can't plug a USB stick or pop a DVD in. Trying to do it all via ISO booting from the vflash and mounting the 9gb (too big for my vflash) with the virtual media drop down in the drac console.

[@MrTazthecat]

After I saw this video I got on and looked through the EMC and was still able to build a SUU for my r710. Do they have it to where we can build SUU packages but not be able to use them through the lifecycle controller, I can't remember off the top of my head the application that uses the suu. I haven't done the way you did in this video. The other method I used was using a non package version and performing the updates via the bios.

[@tonnictv]

What do you do if you want to update the raid drivers while an os is already installed? I am running proxmox on the r610 but an thinking of buying an h700 controller for disk speeds. Once I do that, how do I update the firmware without losing my os (installing windows) and keeping everything in tact?

[@amessman]

_power goes out_ no I'm 1:00 into it I'm sure you have them on a UPS or something and yeah, when I saw this in my sub box I was excited to see a new video from you, even though I run an Intel server platform, I'm sure this'll still be interesting

[@patricklaffey]

This wasn't working for me and I got it to work in case this helps someone else... I got an error: hexdump: /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/SecureBoot-*: Invalid argument I had to restart my server and on boot up hit F2 button to enter startup settings. Then go to boot options and change from UEFI to Legacy boot. After I did that, I rebooted, pressed F11, booted from CentOS7 USB stick, copied the .BIN file to home folder, chmod +x the file, then ran the file and everything worked! Thanks for the tutorial, Rob!

[@spydud44]

again another flawless video on how to upgrade this dino. You need a beer with this. The amount of "......................................................................................" you get while installing is insane.

[@wjason777]

Can you do a video on how to update a R910 bios and Idrac?

[@philanikhumalo7456]

Hi, Rob I'm into web hosting and design how can I go about setting up web server

[@joepalovick1915]

Great video! Keep them coming. Suggestion for a future video is to show how to setup a PC to support the iDRAC6 virtual console. I saw you had Java 7 running etc and think that would be a good video subject, at least for me! :)

[@webconnector2]

Thanks Rob !! Please make a manual how to create GRE tunnel to a vps with ddos protection .

[@VictorManuelFloresCruz]

Hi, great video, i can’t activate idrac because i have a DELL server oem from Check Point, this can help me to install o force install bios update?

[@Duglz]

I had to do a chmod +x to the .bin files before they would run.

[@cyberjack]

You can use the bootable DVD all in one iso ..just saves time

[@carlanwray8718]

Thank you! Really made it simple. Now to figure out how to get this H200 into IT mode... 😒

[@TrillasAdventures]

does this mean you can only put linux on it? im trying to use it for proxmox which is debian based but just want to get the right updates

[@trustgaming_shorts]

Hello, Great video. and thank you very much for the great infos. But whenever I want to send the command to choose the file, it says all the time..Command not found.

[@bhdal]

Got the same problem. I copied the files from the drive to the home directory before I could run with sudo

[@trustgaming_shorts]

@bhdal install the operating system on a stick and after you have full root access . I did that. And now depends. There is another issue..and you will have to specify 2 3 more commands so you can have full access to the folder.

[@bhdal]

@@trustgaming_shorts yeah i’ve updated everything now

[@thegenrl]

having terrible time with PERC update (downgrades really due to issues with vdev + secureboot issues with later FWs). Same issue with the linux .bins, likely have to buy a windows server install just to pull this off.

[@tstrenk27]

I'm running ESXi 6.7 on a T710. when selecting the driver packages, what operating system would i need to select from the drop down menu? I want to make sure that i get the correct packages

[@KubuntuYou]

Did you ever figure this out? Trying to get mine updated.

[@douglaswisemanii5763]

F.Y.I. sudo commands are not working within Dell Support Live 3.0 for me... any ideas anyone?

[@JasonLeaman]

Why not use the Dell Auto update cd ? pm me for link if need.

[@robwillisinfo]

I'm not sure what you are referring to, but I imagine that would run into the same issues as the SUU and Lifecycle controller packages having either no packages or outdated ones. Can you post a link or more info about this? Im sure others would be curious as well.

[@JasonLeaman]

@@robwillisinfo I'll look for the link. the cd is an auto bootable one, it goes out to dell's ftp server and gets all the proper latest firmware for the hardware inside the box after it does an inventory. Works very well too.. shoot me an email jason dot leaman at gmail dot com and I'll get the iso to you :)

[@leonkessel9130]

@@JasonLeaman please post a link to the iso here so we can all enjoy ;)

[@robwillisinfo]

Based off of what you are saying, this will likely not work and will run into the same issue that the Lifecycle controller has on the 11g servers which attempts pull the available images that are no longer available from the same FTP servers.

[@JasonLeaman]

Rob Willis weird I just did three r710's last week and 4 r610's and a r210...

[@icheed8089]

I got the updates to work with the exception of the SAS RAID Perc 6i controller. I got inventory collection failed. I also tried to update the Network drivers, however Dell provided a drivers.tar file and I executed it but don't know if the update was successfully applied.

[@Syntaxs]

how did you get the perci 6i driver to work?

[@Physics072]

I have the same server, the r610 are the best bang for the buck. New enterprise SSDs for Dell will work with the h700 not sure about the 6i. You did not mention if you had issue on the console java on the drac6. The console does not work with newer Javas but 7.x java works.

[@robwillisinfo]

I absolutely hate java, but yes when it comes to DRAC's I stick with Java 7 32-bit.

[@Physics072]

@@robwillisinfo I hate the Java BS too. I spent a ton of time getting that console to work all due to JAVA BS.

[@joshuawilson2267]

Thanks for this video really helped

[@quadcom]

You forgot to add that you may need to chmod u+x the file in order to run the BIN

[@blamethedingus2470]

how are you getting your r610 console to work??? it will not work for anything for me? i have the enterprise idrac but it just refuses to connect

[@robwillisinfo]

Lol, I really hate Java and how it handles "security". Java 7 32-bit is my go to. ;)

[@blamethedingus2470]

@@robwillisinfo so i got it working, is there any chance you can drop what specific version you have, as well as if any what security protocols you had to disable on java 7 32 ?

[@V8_SSP]

Hi rob, i just picked up a R610 Server, 2x Intel Xeon E5530 2.40GHz Quad-Core 6gb ram, and a R610 Server, Xeon X5660 2.80Ghz 6 core, 6GB RAM. I am assuming this process is good for the systems i just picked up? also is the H700 sas-sata card the best one to get for putting sata ssd drives in them? thanks

[@robwillisinfo]

Yes, this should work for your R610! :) The H700 is a decent card and has plenty of RAID options. Just a heads up, hard drives that aren't dell certified may show up as "bad" right out of the box but it doesn't mean that they are. I have had the best luck with Samsung SSDs.

[@knight8563]

"Command not found" ?

[@Physics072]

I have 2012 core installed and I think I just ran the updates from the command prompt for bios, etc. I don't think I had to create a boot disk.

[@robwillisinfo]

Exactly, if you already had Windows on the machine you wouldn't need to do the boot disk method. This method is useful if you have no OS installed and don't plan on installing Windows on it, ie VMWare ESXi.

[@allenstephen3790]

This is Awesome!!

[@icheed8089]

Rob are you there?

[@MagicShopPT]

Any news about the live cd update url?

[@robwillisinfo]

No updates on that :(

[@stanvdwiel]

My server runs on ubuntu how can I do this

[@potasio101]

good Info thank you

[@LucasSilva-ro5zf]

Thank You !!!

[@kbranchjr]

hey I’m new is this serve still good to buy

[@robwillisinfo]

So they are even cheaper now and still a good buy plus they'll run ESXi 6.7, but you can find R620's pretty cheap now too.

[@kbranchjr]

Cool. i was thinking about going with R710/720 , it’s time to put the Raspberry Pi away

[@reidroudebush4401]

sudo ./ command not found error

[@robwillisinfo]

Make sure that the boot usb is still plugged in and that you are in the correct directory for the packages. Also make sure that the architectures are correct for the OS 32/64 bit.

[@anthonydesouza3602]

Same problem here, tried everything but can't figure what you meant about architectures, thanks @@robwillisinfo

[@ChadAmI80]

@@robwillisinfo Same issue here. The boot USB stick is still plugged in. I'm in the correct path for the USB stick as I went to the File Manager and copied the path directly from there. Did ls and saw all the bin files (they are all black not green). Running sudo ./BIN_FILE_NAME_HERE.BIN returns command not found. I am not sure what you mean by "Also make sure that the architectures are correct for the OS 32/64". Are you referring to when I downloaded the BIN files? I selected the Enterprise Red Hat 7 format. I didn't see an option for 32 vs 64 bit at that point of download

[@codymercure224]

Not sure if you got an answer yet, I ran into the same issue. I needed to run chmod -x on the bin file and it installed perfectly

[@braaap2065]

@Benjamin Jackson Not working for me. I've tried everything. Nothing will change the permissions and it just keeps coming back with command not found.

[@Lamont07]

Teach how to build it please

[@ironeo]

just subscribed.

[@hgodtx]

Seems like your method is very labor intensive. It's been a while, but what I used to do was use the Dell Repository manager, just download the updates you want, create the image, create bootable usb with rufus, then you can just boot the server using the newly created usb drive and walk away. Rinse and repeat for 20 servers with that single usb drive is much easier than manually getting connected to each server. Another tip is that when you are choosing the firmware update packages, if each server has slightly different components, just grab all the updates and the servers that don't have that specific component are rightfully skipped over by the update utility. www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/04/sln283183/dell-emc-repository-manager-drm-guide-and-download?lang=en

[@Mayhem_LORMC]

Where did you get your rack from?

[@antoniocristiano23]

min..1143 command not found... why????

[@weihnachtsmanndd]

antonio cristiano you have to pull your update file into the home folder on centOS. Then right click -> properties -> permissions and then click allow executing. After that you can go back to your console and try it again

[@weihnachtsmanndd]

antonio cristiano you have to pull your update file into the home folder on centOS. Then right click -> properties -> permissions and then click allow executing. After that you can go back to your console and try it again

[@narshimagoudpalakurla9651]

@@weihnachtsmanndd fantastic, i was having hard time with bios file not able to execute, you comment helped me thanks buddy.

[@thatowensbloke]

@@weihnachtsmanndd the real MVP! saved me, cheers mate.

[@Youritlam]

I actually never updated my r610 and t610

[@zadkieladdae8145]

Can it run Esxi 6.7?

[@robwillisinfo]

Yes, I have ESXi 6.7 running on 4 of these now with zero issues.

[@zadkieladdae8145]

@@robwillisinfo Great thanks

[@hauby121]

I have an r610!

[@jeffherdzina6716]

Kinda like a old old Dunkin donuts commercial....except. Time to take care of the servers. Thanks !!

[@nettyvoyager6336]

because your cool and we love your content bro i would do them but im a lazy twat did i send you a picture of my beast "dyson"

[@Lazer7910]

if u could add me on skype or somthing and we could talk because u have a lot of cool stuff and id like u to help me plz