Users Guide

150 Configuring and Using Virtual Media
Using the Virtual Media Feature
NOTE: If your system is running a supported 64-bit operating system, install and run
a supported 32-bit Web browser. Otherwise, you may experience unexpected
results when running Virtual Media and other processes. See the Dell Systems
Software Support Matrix on the Dell Support website at support.dell.com for
information on supported Web browsers and supported operating systems.
To use the virtual media feature, perform the following steps:
1
Open a supported Web browser on your management station. For a list of
supported Web browsers, see the
Dell Systems Software Support Matrix on
the Dell Support website at
support.dell.com .
2 Connect and log into the DRAC 4.
3 Click Media in the left pane to display a new page and download the
virtual media plug-in, if it has not already been installed.
All the available drives are listed under
Floppy Drive or CD-ROM Drive .
NOTE: A USB memory key or a floppy image file is also listed under Floppy
Drive because they could be virtualized as a virtual floppy. You can choose
one CD-ROM and one floppy at the same time, or only one of them if you want.
NOTE: The drive letters of virtual devices on the managed system have no
correlation to the drive letters of physical drives on the management station.
4 Select the drives that you want to virtualize and click Connect .
NOTE: To virtualize a floppy drive, the drive cannot be in use by another
application. If the floppy drive is in use, it will not appear as a selectable option. This
behavior occurs as designed by Microsoft.
If this connection is authenticated, the connection status becomes
Connected and a list of all connected drives is displayed.
Booting From the Virtual Media
On supported systems, the system BIOS allows you boot from virtual CD or
virtual floppy drives. You need to enter the BIOS setup window to ensure that
the virtual drives are enabled in the boot sequence menu and that bootable
devices are in the correct order.