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Dell Technologies VEP4600 BIOS/Firmware Upgrade
Thu, 25 Aug 2022 17:11:09 -0000
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This document discusses how to use Dell Unified Firmware upgrade (UFW) utility to upgrade VEP4600 BIOS and other firmware.
1. Download UFW (Unified Firmware Upgrader) from Dell support portal and search VEP4600, as shown in the following image:
2. Select Dell Networking VEP4600 16-Core or any other VEP4600 models from the dropdown list (UFW works the same on all VEP4600 models).
3. Click the Drivers & Downloads tab.
4. Scroll down and select the following UFW file.
5. Expand Dell EMC Unified Firmware Updater V3.5 for VEP 4600 Switch as shown in the following image:
6. Select View full driver details and open the hyperlink
7. Click Download for both file formats to download the release notes and UFW zip file
8. Download the rn_vep4600.pdf to open the UFW release notes.
9. Open and download the VEP4600_ufw_3.5_External.zip file.
10. Save and unzip the file to a new folder, right click the filename to pop up the file process menu, select Extract All… from the drop down list.
13. Right click the VEP4600_ufw_3.5.zip file name and repeat the extraction process to generate a new subfolder.
14. These are the actual VEP4600 UFW file and md5 hash signature of the file. There are three options to run UFW to upgrade BIOS firmware in VEP4600:
- Run UFW through a bootable USB with diagOS
- Run UFW natively in Linux Operating Systems (Ubuntu, Red Hat, CentOS, and Dell diagOS based on Debian)
- Run UFW remotely through BMC/IPMI network
See the release notes (filename rn_vep4600.pdf, page 15) for more details about running UFW on VEP4600 system.