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........................................................................................................................................... 8
Feature matrix..................................................................................................................................9
Licensable features in Lifecycle Controller........................................................................................ 10
Viewing iDRAC license information.................................................................................................... 11
Other documents you may need........................................................................................................12
Social Media Reference................................................................................................................. 12
Accessing documents from Dell support site.................................................................................... 13
Contacting Dell....................................................................................................................................13
2 Using Lifecycle Controller................................................................................ 14
Starting Lifecycle Controller............................................................................................................... 14
Start messages during POST, causes, and resolutions.................................................................14
Enabling Lifecycle Controller........................................................................................................ 15
Disabling Lifecycle Controller....................................................................................................... 15
Canceling Lifecycle Controller actions.........................................................................................16
Using Lifecycle Controller for the first time....................................................................................... 16
Setting up Lifecycle Controller..................................................................................................... 16
Lifecycle Controller features...............................................................................................................18
3 Operating system deployment.........................................................................19
Installing an operating system............................................................................................................ 19
Using the optional RAID configuration...............................................................................................21
Configuring RAID using the operating system deployment wizard.................................................. 21
Unattended installation....................................................................................................................... 21
UEFI Secure Boot................................................................................................................................ 22
Driver access....................................................................................................................................... 23
Installing an operating system on iSCSI LUN and FCoE LUN............................................................23
Post reboot scenarios......................................................................................................................... 23
4 Monitor.................................................................................................................25
Hardware inventory view and export................................................................................................. 25
About view and export current inventory.......................................................................................... 25
About view and export factory-shipped inventory............................................................................25
Viewing hardware inventory — current or factory shipped.............................................................. 26
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