ClintonF_Dell, The first things I would look into what version of the R610's BIOS and Lifecycle controller are at. If you do not update those in tandem with the iDrac you can run into issues like this. If they are behind then I would test this on one of them and get the BIOS and LC caught up and see if after a racadm racreset and NVram clear the iDrac allows you to update.  Also, have you tried updating the iDrac from the Update tab in the iDrac with the firming.d6 file? To do this, for example, you would download the iDRAC6_1.97_A00_FW_IMG.exe file and run it on a Windows system to extract files and then locate the firming.d6 file and save. Use that in the iDrac GUI in the Update Tab. Now I know that is the current file name, so in continuing to walk up you would need the 1.11 and so on. These are the current versions, if you are far behind in these as well I recommend walking them up as well. BIOS 6.4- [URL] LifeCycle Controller 1.6.5- [URL] Let me know what you see.
Hello, I have a number of R610s which I need to upgrade the DRAC firmware on, so they can talk to our new management system. Most of them upgraded fine when I stepped the versions gradually from 1.10.13 (their initial version) to 1.97. About 7 of them, however, will not move past 1.10.13. I have firmware version 1.11 available via TFTP; when I attempt to install this (via idracadm from the local OS, or from a separate box, or via the SSH admin console) I first get "Firmware update is not currently in progress" then "Firmware update operation failed" on subsequent attempts until I perform a racreset. I have tried clearing out space by deleting the system logs, I have performed a factory reset, drained the flea power and the problem still persists. I have also tried updating using the bootable media from the Dell Repository Manager as mentioned here [URL] No joy. Finally I tried updating from a fresh install of CentOS; the upgrade appears to start but never finishes; fwupdate -s shows "Firmware update operation failed". Are there any other approaches, or are there any logs I can check to see what is going wrong? Thanks! 
Unable to upgrade DRAC6 firmware past 1.10.13 on R610