Users Guide

• Accessing virtual media
• Setting boot order through BIOS
• Enabling boot once for virtual media
Supported drives and devices
The following table lists the drives supported through virtual media.
Table 41. Supported drives and devices
Drive Supported Storage Media
Virtual Optical Drives
• Legacy 1.44 oppy drive with a 1.44 oppy diskette
• CD-ROM
• DVD
• CD-RW
• Combination drive with CD-ROM media
Virtual oppy drives
• CD-ROM/DVD image le in the ISO9660 format
• Floppy image le in the ISO9660 format
USB ash drives
• USB CD-ROM drive with CD-ROM media
• USB Key image in the ISO9660 format
Conguring virtual media
Before you congure the Virtual Media settings, make sure that you have congured your Web browser to use Java or ActiveX plug-in.
Related link
Conguring web browsers to use virtual console
Conguring virtual media using iDRAC web interface
To congure virtual media settings:
CAUTION
: Do not reset iDRAC when running a Virtual Media session. Otherwise, undesirable results may occur, including data
loss.
1 In the iDRAC Web interface, go to Overview > Server > Attached Media.
2 Specify the required settings. For more information, see the iDRAC Online Help.
3 Click Apply to save the settings.
Conguring virtual media using RACADM
To congure the virtual media, use the set command with the objects in the iDRAC.VirtualMedia group.
For more information, see the RACADM Command Line Reference Guide for iDRAC available at dell.com/idracmanuals.
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Managing virtual media