Release Notes

You can access Device Settings in the following methods:
• During POST, press <F2>, and then click System Setup.
• On the Lifecycle Controller Home page, click System Setup, and then click Advanced Hardware
Configuration.
Versions/Systems Affected
All LC–supported Dell PowerEdge servers
Issue 5:
Description
Lifecycle Controller may go into an infinite loop when a network operation is tried with an incorrect NFS share name.
Resolution
Restart Lifecycle Controller and retry the operation with the correct NFS share name details.
Versions/Systems Affected
All LC–supported Dell PowerEdge servers.
Issue 6:
Description
Intel I350 Gigabit embedded network firmware cannot be updated using the LC GUI or any other interfaces using LC-
RS.
Resolution
Update the firmware using the Windows (.exe) or Linux (.bin) executable formats.
Versions/Systems Affected
All LC–supported Dell PowerEdge servers.
LC GUI - Limitations
• Lifecycle Controller supports the following characters for user name and password:
o Alphabets (a-z, A-Z)
o
Digits (0-9)
o
Special characters (-, _, .)
•
While updating iDRAC firmware using a tool other than Lifecycle Controller, Lifecycle Controller must not
be open, or running, because it results in an unknown behavior. Use Lifecycle Controller after the firmware is
successfully updated.
•
If the iDRAC firmware update is interrupted for any reason, wait for 30 minutes before attempting another
firmware update.
•
Only Windows operating system can be deployed on systems with a software RAID controller.
•
Firmware update is supported only for LAN On Motherboards, Network Daughter Cards, and network adapters
from Broadcom, QLogic, and Intel, and some of the QLogic and Emulex fiber channel cards. For the list of
supported fiber channel cards, see Lifecycle Controller GUI v2.10.10.10 User’s Guide.
• Rollback is not supported for CPLD.
•
Lifecycle Controller can import and view an iDRAC license, but it cannot export or delete the iDRAC license.
•
The iSCSI offload feature can be enabled only on two of the available four ports. If the iSCSI offload attribute
is enabled on a card, and is replaced by another card whose iSCSI offload mode is also enabled on the other
two ports, an error is thrown. The firmware will not allow the attribute to be set, because it is already set on the
other two ports.
• The unattended OS (operating system) installation feature is not supported for the Microsoft Windows Server
2012 R2.
•
Windows OS supports both the manual installation and unattended installation features. However, Lifecycle
Controller supports the unattended installation feature for Windows and RHEL-7 operating systems only.
•
VLAN configuration is not supported on all vendor FC cards and the following Emulex cards: