Users Guide

After you replace the motherboard on your server, Easy Restore allows you to automatically restore the following data:

• System Service Tag

• Licenses data

• UEFI Diagnostics application

• System conguration settings—BIOS, iDRAC, and NIC

Easy Restore uses the Easy Restore ash memory to back up the data. When you replace the motherboard and power on the system,

the BIOS queries the iDRAC and prompts you to restore the backed-up data. The rst BIOS screen prompts you to restore the Service

Tag, licenses, and UEFI diagnostic application. The second BIOS screen prompts you to restore system conguration settings. If you

choose not to restore data on the rst BIOS screen and if you do not set the Service Tag by another method, the rst BIOS screen is

displayed again. The second BIOS screen is displayed only once.

NOTE:

• System congurations settings are backed-up only when CSIOR is enabled. Ensure that Lifecycle Controller and CSIOR

are enabled.

• System Erase does not clear the data from the Easy Restore ash memory.

• Easy Restore does not back up other data such as rmware images, vFlash data, or add-in cards data.

Import server license

Use the Import Server License feature to import an iDRAC license from the Lifecycle Controller GUI. The scenarios in which you may want

to import a license are when you set up a new server shipped from the factory, while upgrading an Express license to an Enterprise license,

and so on. You can import the license that is stored on a USB drive or on the network share such as CIFS or NFS. You can perform the

following operations only if you have an evaluation license of Lifecycle Controller:

• Back up a server prole

• Export a server prole

• Congure a vFlash SD card

NOTE

: You can import license on PowerEdge 12th generation and later servers. For more information about importing server

license, see the

Importing iDRAC License Using Lifecycle Controller

white paper at delltechcenter.com/lc.

Importing server license from a network share or USB drive

Before importing a server license, make sure that the following prerequisites are met:

• The number of licenses already installed on the server must not be more than 16.

• The license being imported is not expired.

• The license being imported is not of perpetual type, which has a unique identier or Service Tag associated with another server.

• The license being imported is a proper compressed le and not corrupted le.

• The license being imported must not be already installed on the same server.

• If importing a leased license, that date of import must be a date after the lease date is activated.

Importing an iDRAC license from a network share

To import a server license from a network share:

1 Start Lifecycle Controller. For more information, see Starting Lifecycle Controller.

2 In the left pane, click Platform Restore.

3 In the right pane, click Import Server License.

4 On the Import Server License page, click Network Share.

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