Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 8 (iDRAC8) and iDRAC7 with Lifecycle Controller for Dell PowerEdge Servers Version 2.15.10.
Release Notes Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) iDRAC is a systems management hardware and software solution that provides remote management capabilities, crashed system recovery, and power control functions for Dell PowerEdge systems. Lifecycle Controller (LC-GUI) An out-of-band mechanism for configuring the platform, applying firmware updates, saving or restoring a system backup, or deploying an operating system, either by using a GUI or a remote scripting language.
Platform(s) Affected iDRAC8 and LC is supported on the following 13th generation PowerEdge systems: • PowerEdge R430 • PowerEdge R530 • PowerEdge R630 • PowerEdge R730 • PowerEdge R730XD • PowerEdge M630 • PowerEdge FC630 • PowerEdge FC430 • PowerEdge FD332 • PowerEdge T430 • PowerEdge T630 • PowerEdge C4130 • Precision Rack 7910 • PowerEdge FM120x4 iDRAC7 and LC is supported on the following 12th generation PowerEdge systems: • PowerEdge R220 • PowerEdge R320 • PowerEdge R4
What is Supported? License Requirements • Software licensing has replaced hardware licensing. For more information, see the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 8 (iDRAC8) and iDRAC 7 v2.10.10.10 User's Guide, available at dell.com/support/manuals. • Many features in Lifecycle Controller are licensed. You must install the appropriate license to use these features. For more information, see the Introduction section in the Dell Lifecycle Controller Graphical User Interface v2.10.10.
Supported Web Browsers for iDRAC7 and iDRAC8 • Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 • Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 • Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 • Safari version 7.1 • Safari version 8.0 • Mozilla Firefox version 32 • Mozilla Firefox version 33 • Google Chrome version 37 • Google Chrome version 38 What’s New • Support for the following PowerEdge systems: o PowerEdge FC430 o PowerEdge FD332 • Support for using single iDRAC firmware across Dell 12th and 13th generation PowerEdge servers.
• iDRAC network access issues after iDRAC configuration is reset to the factory defaults. • iDRAC network access issues using shared LOM on PowerEdge FC430 servers. • Reset to default on Dell PowerEdge M820 results in an unexpected behavior. The IP on the system displays as IP on the system is 192.168.0.120 instead of 0.0.0.0.
• The reason is that when spanning tree is enabled, the switch does not allow the link to re-establish the connection after a reset until it completes checking for network loops. Server reboots reset the NIC and disconnects the link. Note: This does not occur while using dedicated NIC because server reboots do not affect the dedicated NIC. • When logging in to iDRAC8 web interface using Internet Explorer 9 and IPv6 address, the connection may not succeed.
• During POST, if the system displays cable detect message: "CBL0001: Backplane 0 power cable disconnected", you must check all the backplane cables as this message is not limited to Backplane 0 only. • Do not reboot the host while RAID rebuild is in-progress. If the host is reset, IDSDM is also reset. • On certain iDRAC versions, creating vFlash partition and downloading DUP images may take a little longer than usual due to updated open source packages.
Resolution None. Versions/Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8. Issue 5: Description Cannot set VNC password with quotes. Resolution Do not use double quotes for the VNC password. Versions/Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8.
Resolution To update the storage inventory, perform a server power cycle (cold boot). Versions/Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8 and out-of-band enabled PERC storage controllers.
Issue 13: Description iDRAC8 user interfaces (example, iDRAC8 web interface, RACADM and so on) does not display the newer storage enclosure or backplane firmware version when the firmware is updated through the operating system using DUP. Resolution To update the storage inventory, perform a server power cycle (cold boot) or reset the iDRAC. Versions/Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8 and out-of-band enabled PERC storage controllers.
Resolution Internet Explorer 8.x and prior versions, are not supported browsers with iDRAC8. Ensure that you use Internet Explorer 9 and later versions. Version/Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8. Issue 19: Description When an IO Identity Optimization Job for Network and Fibre Channel adapters is running, iDRAC does not apply persistence policy for the host power events (cold or warm reset) that occur when the job is running.
Issue 23: Description The foreign configuration preview (through iDRAC Web interface) may not contain data about foreign drives under some scenarios (example, the foreign configuration is incomplete or foreign virtual disk is in a failed state). Resolution Navigate to the Storage > Physical Disks page to view the physical disks that are foreign. Versions/Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8 and out-of-band enabled PERC storage controllers.
Issue 28: Description On the Dell 13th generation PowerEdge servers, after replacing the motherboard, if you use the Easy Restore feature to restore the UEFI Diagnostic utility, the UEFI Diagnostic is restored successfully. However, the iDRAC web interface may not show the restored Diagnostic version in the System Inventory page. Resolution Reset iDRAC. Versions/Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8.
• PCIe SSD(s) - Secure Erase or Prepare to Remove operations. Resolution None. Versions/Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8. Issue 33: Description When a passive backplane (that is not connected to PERC) is updated from the operating system, the System Inventory page in the iDRAC web interface does not display the updated version. Resolution Reset iDRAC using racadm racreset command. Versions/Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8.
Versions/ Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8. Issue 38: Description When you update the rebrand image from the iDRAC web interface, the system reboots and the rebranded images are applied successfully. During POST, if you press , the Lifecycle Controller UI starts to launch. The progress bar displays till 90% and then the system starts rebooting. Resolution After rebranding, do not access the Lifecycle Controller UI.
Resolution Import or replace the license files using other supported browser(s) or using other interfaces such as RACADM, Lifecycle Controller, and so on. Versions/ Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8. Issue 43: Description When the physical drives connected to a PERC storage controller are in Non-RAID (or unitialized) state, the size reported by the iDRAC interfaces (WS-MAN, RACADM, and iDRAC GUI) is slightly less than the actual size of the drive.
Issue 47: Description While importing the server profile, if the host system experiences an unexpected power loss or if iDRAC resets, the Import Server Profile operation performs a cleanup and fails. Resolution Before you try importing the profile again or performing any other Lifecycle Controller operation, ensure that you run Collect System Inventory On Reboot (CSIOR). If CSIOR is not enabled, boot in to Lifecycle Controller and exit. Versions/ Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8.
Versions/ Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8. Issue 52: Description The Enumeration filter commands fail for certain filters. Resolution Use Enumeration or Get Instance call to view the same data. The required properties can be filtered by the consoles. Versions/ Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8. Issue 53: Description While enumerating using WS-MAN, if you include more than 7 properties in the WQL/CQL query, the select query does not return any result.
Versions/ Systems Affected Dell 12th generation PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8. Issue 57: Description The watchdog timer expired error is logged in the SEL on deleting an iDRAC license file. Resolution None. Versions/ Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC Service Module (iSM) enabled from 1.65.65 to 2.10.10.10. Issue 58: Description Creating T10 PI capable virtual disks using T10 PI capable disk-drives from iDRAC GUI fails.
Versions/ Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8. iDRAC - Limitations • If floppy emulation is enabled when a bootable USB key is mounted as a Virtual Media from the Virtual Console and if you try to delete any file from the mounted USB key (floppy), the blue screen appears immediately. • Web server session time-out is not exact. It is either 10% more or 15 seconds more, whichever is greater.
• VNC does not work through mobile when encryption is enabled. • OS to iDRAC communication through the USB NIC interface is not supported on RHEV – H (hypervisor) system. • USB NIC IP address must always be assigned Link Local address. Assigning IP address other than Link Local IP address or conflicting IP address of other network interface may cause network related issues. • iDRAC Virtual NIC driver is not loaded when Windows 2008 SP2 (64-bit) installation has completed.
LC GUI - Known Issues Issue 1: Description If FlexAddress is enabled on Chassis Management Controllers, iDRAC and Lifecycle Controller do not display the same MAC addresses. Resolution To view the chassis-assigned MAC address, use the iDRAC web interface or the CMC web interface. Go to General-> Network Settings. Versions/Systems Affected All LC–supported Dell PowerEdge servers.
• On the Lifecycle Controller Home page, click System Setup, and then click Advanced Hardware Configuration. Versions/Systems Affected All LC–supported Dell PowerEdge servers Issue 5: Description After you successfully update the firmware of a CPLD on a modular server, and then perform a firmware update operation of a component that requires a system restart (such as BIOS), the server is automatically and repeatedly restarted. Resolution Perform a Power Cycle operation on the server.
Resolution Reboot the server and ensure that you connect the optical drive or virtual media before launching Lifecycle Controller. Versions/Systems Affected All LC–supported Dell PowerEdge servers. LC GUI - Limitations • Lifecycle Controller supports the following characters for user name and password: o Alphabets (a-z, A-Z) o Digits (0-9) o Special characters (-, _, .
• Lifecycle Controller displays a warning message if the operating system selected for installation and the operating system on the media used are different. However, while installing Windows operating systems, the warning message appears only when the bit count (x86 or x64) of the operating system does not match.
• You may see a no optical device found error if you have a non-usable DVD/CD in the optical drive. This error does not mean that there are no optical devices on the system. If you remove the non-usable media, then this error is resolved. • To maintain compatibility with other iDRAC configuration tools, it is recommended that only digits (0-9), alphanumeric (a-z, A-Z) and hyphen (-) characters be used when entering a “Name” or “Password” string. When entering a “Domain Name”, such as ‘x123.
• o Updating Broadcom NetXtreme I to 7.10.X and QLogic BCM57xx and BCM57xxx Ethernet adapters to 7.12.7 results in updating both Broadcom NetXtreme I and QLogic BCM57xx and BCM57xxx to 7.10.X. o Downgrading to version 7.10.X on a system with Broadcom NetXtreme I 7.10.X and QLogic BCM57xx and BCM57xxx Ethernet adapters 7.12.X results in displaying the QLogic BCM57xx and BCM57xxx Ethernet adapters rollback version as NULL even though it is updated to 7.10.X.
• Windows Server 2008 SP1 • Windows Server 2008 SP2 • Windows Server 2003 SP2 • Windows Vista SP1 • Windows Vista SP2 • Windows XP SP3 For more information on how to install WinRM 2.0 as a part of the Windows Management Framework Core package, see article 968929 in the Microsoft Knowledge Base at: http://go.microsoft.
Accessing Documents From Dell Support Site To access the documents from Dell Support site: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Go to dell.com/support/manuals. In the Tell us about your Dell system section, under No, select Choose from a list of all Dell products and click Continue. In the Select your product type section, click Software and Security.
