Users Guide

New in this release

• Support for monitoring and inventorying Half-Height Half-Length (HHHL) PCIe SSD cards.

• Support for updating firmware on SAS hard drives and solid-state drives (SSD).

• Support for NoReboot option when applying server configuration profile.

• Added support for System.ThermalSettings.ThirdPartyPCIFanResponse attribute to enable

or disable the automatic fan speed feature when a third-party PCI card is inserted in the system.

How to use this user's guide

The contents of this User's Guide enable you to perform the tasks by using:

• iDRAC web interface — Only the task-related information is provided here. For information about the

fields and options, see the iDRAC Online Help that you can access from the web interface.

• RACADM — The RACADM command or the object that you must use is provided here. For more

information, see the iDRAC RACADM Command Line Reference Guide available at dell.com/

idracmanuals.

• iDRAC Settings Utility — Only the task-related information is provided here. For information about the

fields and options, see the iDRAC Settings Utility Online Help that you can access when you click Help

in the iDRAC Settings GUI (press <F2> during boot, and then click iDRAC Settings on the System

Setup Main Menu page).

Supported web browsers

iDRAC is supported on the following browsers:

• Internet Explorer

• Mozilla Firefox

• Google Chrome

• Safari

For the list of versions, see the iDRAC8 Release Notes available at dell.com/idracmanuals.

Managing licenses

iDRAC features are available based on the purchased license (Basic Management, iDRAC Express, or

iDRAC Enterprise). Only licensed features are available in the interfaces that allow you to configure or use

iDRAC. For example, iDRAC Web interface, RACADM, WS-MAN, OpenManage Server Administrator, and

so on. Some features, such as dedicated NIC or vFlash requires iDRAC ports card. This is optional on

200-500 series servers.

iDRAC license management and firmware update functionality is available through iDRAC Web interface

and RACADM.

Types of licenses

The types of licenses offered are: