Users Guide
Contents
1 Introduction........................................................................................................... 7
Why use Lifecycle Controller?.............................................................................................................. 7
Benefits of using iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller...............................................................................8
What's new in this release?................................................................................................................... 8
Key features........................................................................................................................................... 9
Feature matrix..................................................................................................................................9
Licensable features in Lifecycle Controller........................................................................................ 10
Viewing iDRAC license information.................................................................................................... 11
Other documents you may need........................................................................................................12
Social Media Reference................................................................................................................. 13
Accessing documents from Dell Support Site....................................................................................13
Contacting Dell....................................................................................................................................13
2 Using Lifecycle Controller.................................................................................15
Starting Lifecycle Controller................................................................................................................15
Start messages during POST, causes, and resolutions.................................................................15
Enabling Lifecycle Controller........................................................................................................16
Disabling Lifecycle Controller.......................................................................................................16
Canceling Lifecycle Controller actions.........................................................................................17
Using Lifecycle Controller for the first time....................................................................................... 17
Setting up Lifecycle Controller......................................................................................................17
Lifecycle Controller features...............................................................................................................19
3 Operating system deployment........................................................................ 20
Installing an operating system............................................................................................................20
Using the optional RAID configuration.............................................................................................. 22
Configuring RAID using the operating system deployment wizard..................................................22
Unattended installation.......................................................................................................................22
UEFI Secure Boot................................................................................................................................ 23
Driver access....................................................................................................................................... 24
Installing an operating system on iSCSI LUN and FCoE LUN............................................................24
Post reboot scenarios......................................................................................................................... 24
4 Monitor.................................................................................................................26
Hardware inventory view and export................................................................................................. 26
About view and export current inventory.......................................................................................... 26
About view and export factory-shipped inventory............................................................................26
Viewing hardware inventory — current or factory shipped...............................................................27
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