Users Guide

Configuring iDRAC6 Enterprise 47

Remote File Share

iDRAC6 Remote File Share (RFS) feature allows you to specify a CD/DVD

ISO image file located on a network share and make it available to the

managed server’s operating system as a virtual drive by mounting it as a CD

or DVD using NFS or CIFS.

NOTE: This feature works only with IPv4 addresses. IPv6 addresses are currently

not supported.

NOTE: For Linux distributions, this feature may require a manual mount command

when operating at runlevel init 3.

The syntax for the command is:

mount /dev/OS_specific_device /<user defined mount

point>

where, <user defined mount point> is any directory you choose to use

for the mount similar to any mount command.

For RHEL, the CD device (.iso virtual device) is /dev/scd0 and floppy device (.img

virtual device) is /dev/sdc.

For SLES, the CD device is /dev/sr0 and the floppy device is /dev/sdc.

To ensure that the correct device is used (for either SLES or RHEL), when you

connect the virtual device, on the Linux OS you must immediately run the command:

tail /var/log/messages | grep SCSI

This will display the text that identifies the device (example, SCSI device sdc).

This procedure also applies to Virtual Media when you are using Linux distributions

in runlevel init 3. By default, the virtual media is not auto-mounted in init 3.

The format of the CIFS shared image path is:

//<ipaddress or domain

name>/<share_name>/<pathtoimage>

The format of the NFS shared image path is:

If a username contains a domain name, then the username must be entered

in the form of <user name>@<domain>. For example, user1@dell.com is

a valid username whereas dell\user1 is not.

A filename that ends with the IMG extension is redirected as a Virtual Floppy

and a filename ending with the ISO extension is redirected as a Virtual

CDROM. Remote file share supports only .IMG and .ISO image file formats.