Several years ago we transitioned from physical TriGeo LEM to SolarWinds virtual machine LEM. We repurposed the R610 as-is to run VMware ESXi 5.0 and it's worked well since.
I'm having trouble updating the BIOS and I wondered if anyone here had repurposed their old R610-based LEM.
Today I wanted to update the BIOS in preparation for upgrading to ESXi 6.0. I used the jumper to bypass the BIOS setup password. So far, so good.
The BIOS is at 3.0.0 now. The latest on the Dell site is 6.4.0. They provide a version ("R610-060400C.exe") that's they say should be copied to a "DOS-bootable USB flash drive", so I downloaded a FreeDOS LiveCD ISO, added the .EXE to it, booted, and tried to run the executable, but it gives an error that said something like "can't update a ' - ' ".
Is 3.0.0 to 6.4.0 too far a jump? Was the old 3.0.0 proprietary to TriGeo?