Users Guide

Contents
1 Introduction....................................................................................................................................................7
Using Lifecycle Controller..................................................................................................................................................7
Benets of using iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller......................................................................................................... 8
New in this release............................................................................................................................................................. 8
Key features........................................................................................................................................................................8
Feature matrix.............................................................................................................................................................. 9
Licensable features in Lifecycle Controller.................................................................................................................... 10
Viewing iDRAC license information................................................................................................................................. 11
Other documents you may need..................................................................................................................................... 11
Social Media Reference............................................................................................................................................. 12
Accessing documents from the Dell EMC support site............................................................................................... 12
Contacting Dell..................................................................................................................................................................12
2 Using Lifecycle Controller.............................................................................................................................14
Starting Lifecycle Controller............................................................................................................................................14
Start messages during POST, causes, and resolutions..........................................................................................14
Enabling Lifecycle Controller..................................................................................................................................... 15
Disabling Lifecycle Controller.................................................................................................................................... 15
Canceling Lifecycle Controller actions..................................................................................................................... 16
Using Lifecycle Controller for the rst time.................................................................................................................. 16
Setting up Lifecycle Controller using Initial Setup Wizard..................................................................................... 16
Setting up Lifecycle Controller from the home page............................................................................................. 19
Lifecycle Controller features...........................................................................................................................................20
3 Operating system deployment..................................................................................................................... 22
Installing an operating system........................................................................................................................................ 22
Using the optional RAID conguration.......................................................................................................................... 24
Conguring RAID using the operating system deployment wizard............................................................................24
Unattended installation....................................................................................................................................................24
UEFI Secure Boot............................................................................................................................................................ 25
Driver access....................................................................................................................................................................25
Installing an operating system on iSCSI LUN and FCoE LUN.................................................................................... 25
Post reboot scenarios......................................................................................................................................................26
4 Monitor........................................................................................................................................................27
Hardware inventory view and export.............................................................................................................................27
About view and export current inventory..................................................................................................................... 27
About view and export factory-shipped inventory...................................................................................................... 28
Viewing hardware inventory — current or factory shipped....................................................................................... 28
Exporting hardware inventory — current or factory shipped.................................................................................... 28
Exporting hardware inventory to a USB drive........................................................................................................29
Exporting hardware inventory to a network share.................................................................................................29
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