Firmware update best practices for Lenovo x server in Windows environments

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Date Published:
2nd June 2017
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Introduction

Introduction ToolsCenter is a collection of server management tools to help manage your server environment. It makes managing your server environment less complicated, more productive and cost-effective, can help reduce your cost of computing by providing an effective and simple way to update device drivers, server firmware and firmware of supported options contained within the server on most of your System x products.

Bootable Media Creator (BoMC) provides firmware updating capabilities on a bootable media such as a CD, DVD, USB key, or PXE files for a network boot. It leverages UXSPI to perform the update by bundling the UXSPI utility onto the bootable media. Since BoMC creates bootable media that runs independent of any OS installed on a system, it is unable to perform device driver updates. Updates supporting multiple systems can be contained on a single bootable media image.

ToolsCenter UpdateXpress can apply individual updates to the system as well as UpdateXpress System Packs which are a group of drivers and firmware updates tested as a bundle to verify that they work together without issues.

ToolsCenter provides both a GUI interface and a command-line interface (Suite CLI, OneCLI) to allow for both attended, easily customized updates and scripted updates. It can acquire updates from a local path, a network-shared folder, or directly from support.lenovo.com

Prepare for Firmware update

Before you start to perform the firmware update procedure, you should have already downloaded or installed the following:

Downloaded the required firmware package from the Lenovo Data Center Support Web site
Downloaded and installed the ToolsCenter software

References and further reading

Additional Information

Lenovo System x firmware update page

Dokument-ID:HT504154

Ursprungligt publiceringsdatum:06/06/2017

Senast ändrad den:07/10/2023