Users Guide

• To remove a server VLAN, disable the VLAN capabilities of the specified server's network:

racadm setniccfg -m server-<n> -v

The valid values for <n> are 1-16.

For example:

racadm setniccfg -m server-1 -v

Setting First Boot Device

You can specify the CMC first boot device for each server. This may not be the actual first boot device for the server or

even represent a device present in that server; instead it represents a device sent by CMC to the server and used as its

first boot device in regard to that server.

You can set the default boot device and set a one-time boot device so that you can boot a image to perform tasks such

as running diagnostics or reinstalling an operating system.

You can set the first boot device for the next boot only or for all subsequent reboots. Based on this selection, you can set

the first boot device for the server. The system boots from the selected device on the next and subsequent reboots and

remains as the first boot device in the BIOS boot order, until it is changed again either from the CMC Web interface or

from the BIOS boot sequence.

NOTE: The first boot device setting in CMC Web Interface overrides the System BIOS boot settings.

The boot device that you specify must exist and contain bootable media.

You can set the following devices for first boot.

Table 13. : Boot Devices

Boot Device Description

PXE Boot from a Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) protocol

on the network interface card.

Hard Drive Boot from the hard drive on the server.

Local CD/DVD Boot from a CD/DVD drive on the server.

Virtual Floppy Boot from the virtual floppy drive. The floppy drive (or a

floppy disk image) is on another computer on the

management network, and is attached using the iDRAC

GUI console viewer.

Virtual CD/DVD Boot from a virtual CD/DVD drive or CD/DVD ISO image.

The optical drive or ISO image file is located on another

computer or disk available on the management network

and is attached using the iDRAC GUI console viewer.

iSCSI Boot from an Internet Small Computer System Interface

(iSCSI) device.

Local SD Card Boot from the local SD (Secure Digital) card - for servers

that support iDRAC6 and iDRAC7 systems only.

Floppy Boot from a floppy disk in the local floppy disk drive.

RFS Boot from a Remote File Share (RFS) image. The image file

is attached using the iDRAC GUI console viewer.