Release Notes

Issue 244737
Description
DeletVD from CTR-R using warm reboot causes further VD create failure (using iDRAC interfaces through realtime
job) on same physical disks on maxconfig.
Resolution
Perform a power cycle or run the racreset command.
Versions/Systems Affected
All PowerEdge servers that have max configs with more than 2 controllers, greater than 5 enclosures, and over 100+
disks.
Issue 265271
Description
Custom thermal settings such as fan speed offsets, exhaust temperature, and custom Minimum Fan Speed are lost after
an iDRAC reset or when AC power cycle is performed.
Resolution
Upgrade to iDRAC version 2.30.30.30.
Versions/Systems Affected
Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC version 2.20.20.20 or 2.21.21.21 and with the custom thermal settings applied.
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.
•
WinRM and RACADM commands may become unresponsive during BIOS update or when setting BIOS,
NIC, or RAID attributes through Lifecycle Controller.
• If invalid credentials are used for the maximum login attempts, the IP is blocked for the duration of the IP
Blocking Penalty Time and a message is not displayed.
If Internet Explorer (IE) 64-bit browser is used to log in to iDRAC8 Web interface and when viewing the
power usage graph, the X and Y axis labels appear too small to read. This is a known limitation for IE 64-bit
only. The labels appear correctly in IE 32-bit browser.
•
On Linux management stations, if Firefox is launched from the root user, a USB key is mapped in Virtual
Media successfully. If Firefox is launched from any user other than the root user, a USB key is not shown for
mapping because the user must have root privileges to access all the low-level drives.
• Alert notification for battery events does not work.
•
Operating system information on the System Summary page does not display after rebooting iDRAC8 until
the operating system is rebooted.
•
iDRAC8 users with user names containing a semi-colon (;) cannot log in to iDRAC8 through SSH.
•
In the iDRAC8 web interface, the power consumption sensor reading may have a rounding error of up to 13
Watts depending on the actual power reading. This is an IPMI limitation. The power cap, power graphs,
cumulative power, and peak power are not affected by this inaccuracy. However, the power values shown in
the power graphs are average values over a period of time and should not be used to calculate instantaneous
power.
•
Virtual Console uses self-signed certificates. Due to this, when launching Virtual Console from some
management stations with Windows operating systems, a certificate warning appears.
• Virtual Console in dual monitor mode is not supported and hence the behavior is undefined, especially using
Java plug-in. The primary console is used as the target console.
•
The email address specified in iDRAC8 web interface -> Overview -> iDRAC Settings -> Network -> SSL
->
Generate Certificate Signing Request (CSR) page is not validated.
•
On a Linux management station with Matrox drivers, from the Virtual Console Viewer if you access the
iDRAC Chat window, the mouse appears flickering inside the chat window.