Notice
iDRAC8 will reach End-of-Software maintenance on Feb 2024. The last update is 2.83.83.83
Migration to SHA-256
If we are upgrading iDRAC from version earlier than 2.40 (not inclusive), to version later than 2.61 (inclusive), we will meet error RED007: Unable to verify Update Package Signature.
To bypass this, we’ll need to update twice:
- Once to version ≥ 2.40 and < 2.61
- Then once to the last version of iDRAC
Upgrading
We will upgrade iDRAC using web interface.
Getting update file from Dell.com
- go to Dell support website
- Find your product (e.g. using Service Tag)
- Under Category, select iDRAC with Lifecycle controller
- If older version is needed (e.g. version 2.40), click on the down arrow and choose Older version
- For version 2.40, we’ll need to extract the files to our station before uploading.
The file we are interested will be firmimg.d7 - For later version, we can just upload .exe downloaded
iDRAC Upgrade
- Log in to idrac web interface
- Go to Overview > iDRAC Settings > Update and Rollback
- Choose local update and upload the file.
- After uploading, click on the checkbox in (Update Details) section below
- And then click on Install
- The job may require internet access to download additional packages
- iDRAC will restart after successful upgrade