When I booted the Dell Deployment Toolkit ISO for a few of my poweredge servers, I was given an error: “apply_bundles.sh is invalid” When you see this prompt, it’s necessary to re-mount the USB drive to continue using the toolkit. Here’s what you can do to mount your USB drive Read more…
This is the easiest (most hands-off, unattended) way to upgrade your server’s firmware/drivers, especially when you don’t run Windows but instead a hypervisor such as VMWare ESXi. Here’s how you can do it. Download the ISO See the chart below for finding a repository to download your bootable Read more…
Today I’m working on a PowerEdge R430 which has been in it’s box way too long. There were some firmware updates, etc. but also no OS or anything. I took to installing Dell’s customized ESXi 6.0 U2 With the dell servers, they have a great offering of VIBs to help Read more…