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r720 update iDRAC firmware to latest

Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2026 9:55 pm
by zemerdon


Update ONE at a time till latest. Tools I needed updating from a Proxmox host...

Dell iDRAC Tools for Linux, v11.2.0.0
https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-au ... erid=j72j9

DELL iDRAC7 1.66.65
https://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en ... redge-r720

iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller v.2.10.10.10
https://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en ... redge-r720

iDRAC tools:
extract the archive and head to "Dell-iDRACTools-Web-LX-11.2.0.0-213_A00\iDRACTools\racadm\UBUNTU22\x86_64"

Install in this order:

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dpkg -i srvadmin-hapi_11.2.0.0_amd64
dpkg -i srvadmin-idracadm7_11.2.0.0_all
racadm will be installed into "/opt/dell/srvadmin/bin"

download all firmware .exe and extract 'firmimg.d7'.
copy 'firmimg.d7' file to USB and mount on host system.
run the following command to update iDRAC with the 'firmimg.d7' file.

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./idracadm7 update -f /media/usb/idrac/firmimg.d7
reboot, extract and overwrite with the next firmware version once complete. You can check iDRAC version with the following command.

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./idracadm7 getsysinfo