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Kahonu84
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Hot Shot
‎03-31-2015 01:57 PM

Dell iDRAC 7 question

Aloha,

I know this may be slightly off-topic, but not slightly enough to not ask for help here. I have a Dell PE820 with iDRAC 7 Pro that

has a 16gb SD card. I was able to create a bootable partition that allowed me to install ESX from the SD. I also created a second

partition to contain my Brocade HBA drivers. Where I am stumped is how to upload those files to the SD. The iDRAC only seems

interested in image/ISO files.

Mahalo,

            Bill

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cykVM
Expert
Expert
‎03-31-2015 11:04 PM

Maybe I'm missing something, but is this a DELL OEM Brocade HBA?

On a DELL server I would use the DELL customized VMWare ESXi installation image which already contains the most important drivers for DELL systems.

The DRAC card only recognizes ISOs because it's used as a virtual CD/DVD drive mounting the ISO to e.g. boot from it.