Users Guide
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.
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