Users Guide

Viewing or exporting hardware inventory after part replacement.............................................................................30
Viewing or exporting current inventory after resetting Lifecycle Controller............................................................ 30
Lifecycle Controller log.....................................................................................................................................................31
Viewing Lifecycle Log history....................................................................................................................................31
Exporting Lifecycle Log.............................................................................................................................................32
Adding a work note to the Lifecycle Log.................................................................................................................34
5 Firmware update..........................................................................................................................................35
Firmware update methods..............................................................................................................................................36
Version compatibility........................................................................................................................................................ 37
Updating rmware............................................................................................................................................................37
Selecting the type of update and update source...................................................................................................38
Using single component DUPs.................................................................................................................................42
Selecting and applying updates................................................................................................................................42
Firmware rollback............................................................................................................................................................. 43
Rolling back to previous rmware versions.............................................................................................................43
6 Congure.....................................................................................................................................................45
System control panel access options............................................................................................................................ 45
Controlling access to the front panel...................................................................................................................... 46
Conguring iDRAC...........................................................................................................................................................46
Conguring system time and date................................................................................................................................. 47
Conguring vFlash SD card............................................................................................................................................ 47
Enabling or disabling a vFlash SD card.................................................................................................................... 47
Initializing a vFlash SD card...................................................................................................................................... 48
Conguring RAID............................................................................................................................................................. 48
Foreign conguration found......................................................................................................................................49
Viewing current RAID conguration........................................................................................................................ 49
Selecting RAID levels.................................................................................................................................................49
Selecting physical disks.............................................................................................................................................50
Setting virtual disk attributes.................................................................................................................................... 51
Viewing summary.......................................................................................................................................................52
Conguring RAID using software RAID.........................................................................................................................52
Creating a secure virtual disk on a RAID controller......................................................................................................53
Key encryption................................................................................................................................................................. 53
Applying the local key on a RAID controller............................................................................................................ 54
Local key encryption mode.............................................................................................................................................54
Encrypting unsecure virtual disks............................................................................................................................ 54
Rekey controller with new local key........................................................................................................................ 55
Removing encryption and deleting data................................................................................................................. 55
Breaking mirrored drives................................................................................................................................................. 56
System setup — Advanced Hardware Conguration.................................................................................................56
Modifying device settings.........................................................................................................................................58
Collect system inventory on restart...............................................................................................................................59
Updating server inventory information....................................................................................................................59
Conguring local FTP server..........................................................................................................................................59
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