Users Guide

Configuring the vFlash SD Card and Managing vFlash Partitions 239

Configuring the vFlash SD Card and

Managing vFlash Partitions

The vFlash SD card is a Secure Digital (SD) card that plugs into the optional

iDRAC6 Enterprise card slot at the back corner of the system. It provides

storage space that behaves like a common USB Flash Key device. It is the

storage location for user-defined partition(s) that can be configured to be

exposed to the system as a USB device and also used to create a bootable USB

device. Depending on the emulation mode selected, the partitions will be

exposed to the system as a floppy drive, and hard drive, or a CD/DVD drive.

You can set any of these as a bootable device.

The vFlash SD cards and standard SD cards are supported. A vFlash SD card

refers to the card that supports the new enhanced vFlash features. A standard

SD card refers to a normal off-the-shelf SD card that supports only limited

vFlash features.

With vFlash SD card, you can create up to 16 partitions. You can provide a

label name for the partition when you create it and can perform a range of

operations to manage and use the partitions. A vFlash SD card can be of any

size up to 8 GB. Each partition can be up to 4 GB.

A standard SD card can be of any size but supports only one partition. The

size of the partition is limited to 256 MB. The label name for the partition is

VFLASH by default.

NOTE: Ensure that you only insert a vFlash SD card or standard SD card in the

iDRAC6 Enterprise card slot. If you insert a card in any other format (example, Multi-

Media Card (MMC)), the following error message is displayed when you initialize

the card: An error has occurred while initializing SD card.

If you are an administrator, you can perform all operations on the vFlash

partitions. If not, you must have Access Virtual Media privilege to create,

delete, format, attach, detach, or copy the contents for the partition.