efredriksen, you are correct. The Dell FTP site is still ftp.dell.com and it not going away any time soon. I have seen some Dell teams are posting files to Box but for drivers & catolog files, ftp.dell.com is the main location. I am not sure what SpeedStep is referring to the ftp address being decommissioned. If that is indeed true then Dell needs to come out and make it very clear and update all their documentation.I think some of the confusion is to blame on the other DNS names the FTP can be reached at, such as.downloads.dell.comftp1.us.dell.comftp2.us.dell.comftp.us.dell.comThe reason I opened this post was resolved under case 940656672. It was a networking issue on my end. My r720xd is plugged into a HP switch stack. I was using LACP Trunk ports with Windows NIC Teaming. But inside the preboot Lifecycle Controller interface, it wasn't playing nice with my trunk ports the NICs were plugged into. Turning off the trunk port fixed the issue but is not ideal way of dealing with it.Link: [URL] the link above will take you to the Knowledge Base page for Updating Dell PowerEdge servers via bootable media. I found this to be a good alternative option to using the Lifecycle Controller.
I has been a while since I last tried to update my R720xd servers. But to today I have been battling them them trying to get the firmware update function to work.When testing the network connection it tells me it is unable to resolve host name for ftp.dell.com. If i just press the next button it tells me invalid ip address or share name.I am not sure what I am doing wrong. Any help would be appreciated.
Lifecycle Controller unable to connect to ftp.dell.com