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What is new in this release
This release of CMC for Dell PowerEdge VRTX supports:
● Creating a Virtual Disk without initialization of the virtual disk.
● Following features for Self-Encrypting Drives (SEDs):
○ Creating, modifying, and deleting the security key (using key identifier and passphrase)
○ Secure erase
○ Encrypting virtual disks
○ Unlocking and importing secure foreign virtual disk configuration using RACADM and WSMan
● Querying shared storage health using SNMP.
● Enabling sPERC Redundancy and setting up Multiple Assignment Mode using WSMan.
● Performing racresetcfg from CMC GUI.
● Enabling Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 cryptography.
● Disabling AC Power Recovery.
● Updating the OpenSSL open source package to version 1.0.2f.
● Updating the OpenSSH open source package to version 7.1p1.
● Updating glibc to version 2.23 to address new security vulnerabilities.
● TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.1 by default.
● User configuration option to enable TLS 1.0 using RACADM.
● Configuring SNMPv3 using RACADM commands.
● Querying the health status of the chassis components using WSMan.
● Initiating Quick Deploy of blade through RACADM.
● Configuring CMC using WSMan for the following features:
○ Host name of chassis
○ IP Configuration
○ DNS
○ DNS Registration
○ NTP
○ Change Default Password
● Sending alerts when the power state of an IOM changes and when power-on of IOM fails.
● Populating CMC Device name in the inventory.
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.
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