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
Licensable features in Lifecycle Controller.......................................................................................... 9
Viewing iDRAC license information....................................................................................................10
Other documents you may need....................................................................................................... 10
Social Media Reference..................................................................................................................11
Accessing documents from Dell support site.....................................................................................11
Contacting Dell....................................................................................................................................12
2 Using Lifecycle Controller.................................................................................13
Starting Lifecycle Controller............................................................................................................... 13
Start messages, causes, and resolutions.......................................................................................13
Enabling Lifecycle Controller........................................................................................................14
Disabling Lifecycle Controller.......................................................................................................14
Canceling Lifecycle Controller actions.........................................................................................14
Using Lifecycle Controller for the first time....................................................................................... 15
Setting up Lifecycle Controller......................................................................................................15
Lifecycle Controller features...............................................................................................................16
3 Operating system deployment.........................................................................18
Installing an operating system............................................................................................................ 18
Using the optional RAID configuration.............................................................................................. 20
Configuring RAID using the operating system deployment wizard................................................. 20
Unattended installation.......................................................................................................................20
UEFI Secure Boot.................................................................................................................................21
Driver access........................................................................................................................................21
Installing an operating system on iSCSI LUN and FCoE LUN............................................................22
Post reboot scenarios......................................................................................................................... 22
4 Monitor.................................................................................................................23
Hardware inventory view and export................................................................................................. 23
About view and export current inventory.......................................................................................... 23
About view and export factory-shipped inventory............................................................................23
Viewing hardware inventory — current or factory shipped.............................................................. 24
Exporting hardware inventory — current or factory shipped............................................................24