Concept Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell Lifecycle Controller Remote Services (LC RS) Version 2.00.00.00 For 13th Generation Dell PowerEdge Servers Quick Start Guide
- Introduction
- Benefits of using iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller
- Key features
- What’s new in this release?
- Why use Lifecycle Controller Remote Services?
- Licensable features in Lifecycle Controller
- What is the Web Service API?
- Where can the Lifecycle Controller API be used from?
- Who can use the API?
- How is one-to-many management achieved?
- Other documents you may need
- Accessing documents from Dell support site
- Contacting Dell
- Remote Services Features
- Deployment and configuration
- Monitor
- Maintain
- Server configuration profiles — export or import
- Firmware update
- Part replacement
- Server profile — export or import
- Server license — import
- Auto discovery
- Deleting server-related information using Lifecycle Controller
- Managing the web server certificate
- Viewing the managed computer system using the Physical Computer System View
- Job management
- Getting started with API collateral and links
- Integrating the Lifecycle Controller API
- Social media reference
- Terms and definitions
NIC configuration
Network Interface Controller (NIC) configuration feature is used to set up or modify configuration
settings for supported NIC cards (for example, Intel, QLogic, and Broadcom). These configuration settings
can be set or updated both locally and remotely using Lifecycle Controller-Remote Services.
The NICs supported by Lifecycle Controller provide an array of networking features converged into a
single controller:
• Traditional NIC capabilities
• Internet Small Computer System Interface over Ethernet (iSCSI) capabilities
• Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) capabilities
You can configure various device capabilities such as:
• Personalities (FCoE, ISOE, Layer 2 NIC)
• NIC partition bandwidth allocation
• Boot versus Offload
• I/O Identity
Operating system deployment
The operating system deployment feature is used to remotely deploy and manage an operating system
using WSMAN web services protocols that use CIFS and NFS network file sharing protocols. Remote
activation of locally exposed embedded drivers such as a USB drive eliminates the need for physical
media.
NOTE: By default the drivers are available with iDRAC and Lifecycle Controller for all the Dell
supported operating systems.
You can perform the following operations:
• Get installed driver pack version and list of supported operating systems.
• Remote activation of locally exposed embedded drivers for the selected operating system as an
emulated USB device to the server that is automatically installed during installation.
• Remote acquisition of embedded drivers for the selected operating system to a CIFS or NFS network
share that can be used later for operating system deployment.
• Boot to an ISO image on a CIFS or NFS network share to initiate an operating system installation.
• Download ISO to vFlash SD card and boot from the card to initiate an operating system installation.
• Connect an ISO from CIFS or NFS network share, attaching it as virtual USB CD-ROM device to the
server, and booting the server to the ISO, every time the server restarts.
• One time boot to PXE.
• One time boot to hard disk.
• Get the list of MAC addresses of all the NICs present on the server.
• Deploy operating system on iSCSI and FCoE LUN.
Near Field Communication (NFC) using the QuickSync feature
Using the QuickSync feature, you can:
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