Users Guide

• If the Virtual Media client is not active, and you attempt to establish an RFS connection, the connection is established and the
remote image is available to the host operating system.
• If the Virtual Media client is active, and you attempt to establish an RFS connection, the following error message is displayed:
Virtual Media is detached or redirected for the selected virtual drive.
The connection status for RFS is available in iDRAC log. Once connected, an RFS-mounted virtual drive does not disconnect even if
you log out from iDRAC. The RFS connection is closed if iDRAC is reset or the network connection is dropped. The Web interface
and command-line options are also available in CMC and iDRAC to close the RFS connection. The RFS connection from CMC always
overrides an existing RFS mount in iDRAC.
NOTE: iDRAC vFlash feature and RFS are not related.
If you update the iDRAC rmware from version 1.30.30 to 1.50.50 rmware while there is an active RFS connection and the Virtual
Media Attach Mode is set to Attach or Auto Attach, the iDRAC attempts to re-establish the RFS connection after the rmware
upgrade is completed and the iDRAC reboots.
If you update the iDRAC rmware from version 1.30.30 to 1.50.50 rmware while there is an active RFS connection and the Virtual
Media Attach Mode is set to Detach, the iDRAC does not attempt to re-establish the RFS connection after the rmware upgrade is
completed and the iDRAC reboots.
Conguring remote le share using web interface
To enable remote le sharing:
1. In iDRAC Web interface, go to Overview → Server → Attached Media.
The Attached Media page is displayed.
2. Under Attached Media, select Attach or Auto Attach.
3. Under Remote File Share, specify the image le path, domain name, user name, and password. For information about the elds,
see the iDRAC Online Help.
Example for image le path:
• CIFS — //<IP to connect for CIFS le system>/<le path>/<image name>
• NFS —< IP to connect for NFS le system>/<le path>/<image name>
NOTE: Both '/' or '\' characters can be used for the le path.
CIFS supports both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses but NFS supports only IPv4 address.
If you are using NFS share, make sure that you provide the exact <le path> and <image name> as it is case-sensitive.
NOTE: For information on recommended characters for user names and passwords, see Recommended characters in
user names and passwords.
NOTE: While specifying the network share settings, it is recommended to avoid special characters for user name and
password or percent encode the special characters.
4. Click Apply and then click Connect.
After the connection is established, the Connection Status displays Connected.
NOTE: Even if you have congured remote le sharing, the Web interface does not display user credential
information due to security reasons.
For Linux distributions, this feature may require a manual mount command when operating at runlevel init 3. The syntax for the
command is:
mount /dev/OS_specific_device / user_defined_mount_point
where, user_defined_mount_point is any directory you choose to use for the mount similar to any mount command.
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