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What Is New In This Release
This release of CMC for Dell PowerEdge VRTX supports:
• New model of 1100W PSU.
• Pre-enablement of Shared External Storage expansion.
• Emulex Fibre Channel (FC) 8 host bus adapters.
• Backup and restore through XML based on Chassis configuration profile.
• Blinking server identification LED using Quick Link.
• Creating and deploying a library of Boot Identity Profiles (boot from iSCSI/SAN configurations) to enable a quick restore of workload
to a spare server.
• Enclosure management tasks for enclosures.
• Updating CMC and Mainboard firmware.
• Shared PowerEdge RAID controller for VRTX chassis used for external storage expansion.
Key Features
The CMC features are grouped into management and security features.
Management Features
CMC provides the following management features:
• Redundant CMC environment.
• Dynamic Domain Name System (DDNS) registration for IPv4 and IPv6.
• Login management and configuration for local users, Active Directory, and LDAP.
• Advanced cooling options such and ECM (Enhanced Cooling Mode) and Fan Offset can be enabled to provide additional cooling for
improved performance.
• Remote system management and monitoring using SNMP, a web interface, KVM, Telnet, or SSH connection.
• Monitoring — Provides access to system information and status of components.
• Access to system event logs — Provides access to the hardware log and chassis log.
• Firmware updates for various chassis components — Enables you to update the firmware for CMC, iDRAC on servers, chassis
infrastructure, and chassis storage.
• Firmware update of server components such as BIOS, network controllers, storage controllers, and so on across multiple servers in the
chassis using Lifecycle Controller.
• Dell OpenManage software integration — Enables you to launch the CMC web interface from Dell OpenManage Server Administrator
or OpenManage Essentials (OME) 1.2.
• CMC alert — Alerts you about potential managed node issues through Remote syslog email message or SNMP trap.
• Remote power management — Provides remote power management functions, such as turn off and reset of any chassis component,
from a management console.
• Power usage reporting.
• Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption — Provides secure remote system management through the web interface.
• Launch point for the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) web interface.
• Support for WS-Management.
• FlexAddress feature — Replaces the factory-assigned World Wide Name/Media Access Control (WWN/MAC) addresses with
chassis-assigned WWN/MAC addresses for a particular slot.
• iDRAC I/O Identity feature support for enhanced WWN/MAC Address Inventory.
• Graphical display of chassis component status and health.
• Support for single and multi-slot servers.
• LCD iDRAC configuration wizard supports for iDRAC network configuration.
• iDRAC single sign-on.
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