• Static Bundles (Service Packs). Static Bundles (Service Packs) are bundled updates designed and
tested to provide the interdependent level of functionality, performance, and compatibility. Static Bundles
(Service Packs) are server machine-type specific and are built (with firmware and device driver updates) to
support specific Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
(SLES) operating system distributions. Machine-type-specific firmware-only Static Bundles (Service
Packs) are also available.
Firmware updating tools
See the following table to determine the best Lenovo tool to use for installing and setting up the firmware:
Tool Update
Methods
Suppor-
ted
Core
System
Firmware
Updates
I/O
Devices
Firmware
Updates
Drive
Firmware
Updates
Graphical
user
interface
Command
line
interface
Supports
Static
Bundles
(Service
Packs)
Lenovo XClarity
Provisioning
Manager
(LXPM)
In-band
2
On-Target
√ √
Lenovo XClarity
Controller
(XCC)
In-band
4
Out-of-
band
Off-Target
√
Selected I/
O devices
√
3
√ √
Lenovo XClarity
Essentials OneCLI
(OneCLI)
In-band
Out-of-
band
On-Target
Off-Target
√
All I/O
devices
√
3
√ √
Lenovo XClarity
Essentials
UpdateXpress
(LXCE)
In-band
Out-of-
band
On-Target
Off-Target
√
All I/O
devices
√ √
Lenovo XClarity
Essentials Bootable
Media Creator
(BoMC)
In-band
Out-of-
band
Off-Target
√
All I/O
devices
√
(BoMC
applica-
tion)
√
(BoMC
applica-
tion)
√
Lenovo XClarity
Administrator
(LXCA)
In-band
1
Out-of-
band
2
Off-Target
√
All I/O
devices
√ √
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