It's really easy.  You don't need any disks.  All you have to do is press F10 at boot up to go to the System Manager.  Once it's loaded it's called something like "Dell Lifecycle Controller Unified Server Configurator-Lifecycle Controller Enabled (USC-LCE)" .   The long name makes it confusing.  Once your in there you can select a NIC for it to use then you can have it check for platform updates from dell's ftp server.  No CD's to burn and no disks required.  If you have the idrac6 card you can even do it remotely :). If it doesn't find the latest update, you can even point it to the Windows update file on Dell's Ftp server.
Hi, This is causing headaches for many people and I am wondering if someone from DELL can pls, pls post some step by step instructions on how to gather all the necessary files, then prepare them correctly, so that we can run all server firmware updates from a bootable USB device? Since 6.3 was released there is confusion as to how to run (what should be), simple updates, smoothly. The amount of time spent on the DELL website and trawling through endless documents is appalling. Especially when a straight-forward solution is still not forthcoming after all the digging.   If we cannot get a response on this forum, then I shall raise a formal case with DELL to get this done and post back.  Pls let me know which way to go, either the forum or formally to DELL. If via the forum, pls do not skip over any steps including url's and so on. Thankyou, John Bradshaw
Running firmware updates on new hardware e.g. R715, R815.