Concept Guide

• Create, change, or delete the security key using the Local Key Management (LKM) feature on controllers that support encryption of
the drives.
NOTE: On Dell’s 13th generation PowerEdge server, you can now perform all RAID conguration jobs in real-time without
rebooting the host.
For more information on RAID conguration, see the SimpleRaid prole document available at en.community.dell.com/techcenter/
systems-management/w/wiki/1906.dcim-library-prole.aspx. Also, see the iDRAC User’s Guide available at dell.com/esmmanuals.
NIC conguration
Network Interface Controller (NIC) conguration feature is used to set up or modify conguration settings for supported NIC cards (for
example, Intel, QLogic, and Broadcom). These conguration settings can be set or updated both locally and remotely using Lifecycle
Controller-Remote Services.
The NICs supported by Lifecycle Controller provide an array of networking features converged into a single controller:
• Traditional NIC capabilities
• Internet Small Computer System Interface over Ethernet (iSCSI) capabilities
• Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) capabilities
You can congure various device capabilities such as:
• Personalities (FCoE, ISOE, Layer 2 NIC)
• NIC partition bandwidth allocation
• Boot versus Ooad
• I/O Identity
Operating system deployment
The operating system deployment feature is used to remotely deploy an operating system using WSMAN web services protocols that use
CIFS and NFS network le sharing protocols. Remote activation of locally exposed embedded drivers such as a USB drive eliminates the
need for physical media.
NOTE
: By default the drivers are available with iDRAC and Lifecycle Controller for all the Dell supported operating systems.
You can perform the following operations:
• Get installed driver pack version and list of supported operating systems.
• Expose embedded OS deployment drivers for a selected operating system remotely. The drivers are attached to the server on an
emulated USB device.
• Remote acquisition of embedded drivers for the selected operating system to a CIFS or NFS network share that can be used later for
operating system deployment.
• Boot to an ISO image on a CIFS or NFS network share to initiate an operating system installation.
• Download ISO to vFlash SD card and boot from the card to initiate an operating system installation.
• Connect an ISO from CIFS or NFS network share, attaching it as virtual USB CD-ROM device to the server, and booting the server to
the ISO, every time the server restarts.
• One time boot to PXE.
• One time boot to hard disk.
• Get the list of MAC addresses of all supported NICs present on the server.
• Deploy operating system on iSCSI and FCoE LUN.
Remote Services Features
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