Update iDRAC6 on Macos

Download the firmware

Visit the support page related to your Dell product. For example, this is the r510 support page. Navigate to the ESM category, and download .BIN firmware. This is the 2.91 link.

Extract using Docker

cd to the directory that you downloaded the firmware to.

Using docker, we are going to mount the volume so that it can be extracted.

$ docker run --rm -it -v `pwd`:/data centos:7 /bin/sh

Inside docker:

sh-4.2# cd data/
sh-4.2# yum install which
sh-4.2# sh ESM_Firmware_MXKG2_LN32_2.91_A00.BIN --extract ./291

On the iDrac Web GUI, upload ./291/payload/firmimg.d6