IMHO The Lifecycle Controller works great and I manually upload firmware upgrades to it's job queue all the time. It is also what handles updates sent from OME which I also use.
ftp.dell.com on the other hand is a joke. It needs to be rearchitected to handle the bandwidth to deliver files quickly at modern (not dial-up modem) speeds all the time. DSU is iffy and has it's own problems :) Cameron On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Shane Forsythe <sfor...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is not specific to Linux, I'm frustratingly still at the point where > trying to apply updates before can goto install linux..... > > For awhile now there have been numerous posts about how absolutely horrid > trying to do firmware updates via the Lifecycle Controller via > ftp.dell.com has become. The bandwidth or hardware devoted to > ftp.dell.com does not remotely seem up to the task, when the site is > actually up and you can connect, it seems to take many hours for it to > actually download the catalog. > > Numerous times on Dell Support forums it be suggested to download a > bootable ISO that will do all the updates. I literally just spoke with > support as I was having trouble even reaching ftp.dell.com , and that was > the verbatim answer they gave me. > > > Is that the preferred suggested course of action to upgrade Dell hardware > currently? > Once a month manually download an iso for each unique piece of hardware > you are running? > > I was forced to download the one for my new unboxed R730xd , and am > astonished how bad it is. > > There are 111 potential updates. There is no central logic, or inventory > collection. > > Each and every updated package is executed sequentially. > > Each and every update package , separately does "Collecting Inventory" ( > which takes a non trivial amount of time ). If that specific update > doesn't apply to your hardware, you get "This Update package is not > compatible with your system configuration" > > Even the most basic engineering effort could be made to simplify and > streamline this process, this is most bare bones out of the box possible > solution that could have been devised. > > The Lifecycle controller was sold as an innovative intelligent solution by > Dell to completely automate the process, each step applied in the Dell > approved order ... The initial marketing spiel used to sell it (the > Lifecycle contoller) used the old out dated modes of manually download as > an example of what an improvement this would be! > > Has the Lifecycle controller method of updating via ftp just fallen out of > favor? > Is the current vision/plan to just push out the bare bones ISO ? > Will there be improvements to the infrastructure that back ftp.dell.com? > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-PowerEdge mailing list > Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge > >
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