I finally had success after trying to update iDRAC 6 from version 1.0.3.10 to 1.98.8 (latest as of this post) The update kept failing (getting stuck) at 30%.  Solution was to upload "firming.d6" ***wait 5 minutes*** before clicking update button to begin loading the new firmware.  One R610 server would not update unless server was left powered off and then followed above instructions.  If i clicked the firmware update button soon after uploading the file it would always fail at 30%.
Hi, One of my collegues visited a customer that has some issues with upgrading his iDRAC6 to newer firmware.Case 1R710 - with firmware version 1.41 -> 1.54 fails at 30% Case 2 R710 - with firmware 1.54 -> 1.70 fails at 30%. Also tried 1.54 -> 1.80 also fails at 30%. For both cases we could not find any error indicationin the log files. upload was fine, checksum is ok, only FW upgrade failed but no details. Is this a common error? What can we do to work around this error? Regards,   Stijn   
iDRAC6 firmware upgrade failed during process