Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 8 (iDRAC8) with Lifecycle Controller for Dell PowerEdge Servers Version 2.23.23.
Release Notes Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) iDRAC is a systems management hardware and software solution that provides remote management capabilities, crashed system recovery, and power control functions for Dell PowerEdge systems. Lifecycle Controller (LC-GUI) An out-of-band mechanism for configuring the platform, applying firmware updates, saving or restoring a system backup, or deploying an operating system, either by using a GUI or a remote scripting language.
Supported Managed Server Operating Systems for iDRAC8 The following operating systems are supported by iDRAC8: • Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Foundation Edition • Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Enterprise Edition • Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Standard Edition • Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Datacenter Edition • Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Embedded Systems • Windows Server 2008 SP2 x32 (iDRAC7 only) • Windows Server 2008 SP2 x64 (iDRAC7 only) • Windows Server 2012 Foundation Edition • Windows Server 20
What’s New • Support for the following DCS system: o DCS 6300 • Added System controller view of sled power consumption on PowerEdge C6320. • Power control tab in iDRAC web interface changed as Power Configuration . • Updated thermal configuration tables. iDRAC – Fixes • NodeManager power consumption (which excludes infrastructure power) used for power capping is different from system controller power consumption indicating that power capping is not functional.
- 40 seconds at system reboot and varies per NIC or link speed - 20 seconds when CSIOR is running - 40-60 seconds while entering SSM • The reason is that when spanning tree is enabled, the switch does not allow the link to re-establish the connection after a reset until it completes checking for network loops. Server reboots reset the NIC and disconnects the link. Note: This does not occur while using dedicated NIC because server reboots do not affect the dedicated NIC.
• USB NIC is supported on RHEL 6.5 32-bit and RHEL 6.5 64-bit operating systems. On any Linux operating system, for https://idrac.local to work, the avahi, nss-mdns, and dependent packages must be installed. • CIFS supports both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses but NFS supports only IPv4 address. • During POST, if the system displays cable detect message: "CBL0001: Backplane 0 power cable disconnected", you must check all the backplane cables as this message is not limited to Backplane 0 only.
Resolution None. Versions/Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8. Issue 5: Description Cannot set VNC password with quotes. Resolution Do not use double quotes for the VNC password. Versions/Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8.
Resolution To update the storage inventory, perform a server power cycle (cold boot). Versions/Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8 and out-of-band enabled PERC storage controllers.
Issue 13: Description iDRAC8 user interfaces (example, iDRAC8 web interface, RACADM and so on) does not display the newer storage enclosure or backplane firmware version when the firmware is updated through the operating system using DUP. Resolution To update the storage inventory, perform a server power cycle (cold boot) or reset the iDRAC. Versions/Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8 and out-of-band enabled PERC storage controllers.
This is a known issue with Internet Explorer. Resolution Internet Explorer 8.x and prior versions, are not supported browsers with iDRAC8. Ensure that you use Internet Explorer 9 and later versions. Version/Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8. Issue 19: Description When an IO Identity Optimization Job for Network and Fibre Channel adapters is running, iDRAC does not apply persistence policy for the host power events (cold or warm reset) that occur when the job is running.
Versions/Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8 and out-of-band enabled PERC storage controllers. Issue 23: Description The foreign configuration preview (through iDRAC Web interface) may not contain data about foreign drives under some scenarios (example, the foreign configuration is incomplete or foreign virtual disk is in a failed state). Resolution Navigate to the Storage > Physical Disks page to view the physical disks that are foreign.
Resolution Use a user name and password without reserved characters and then perform an update. Versions/Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8. Issue 28: Description On the Dell 13th generation PowerEdge servers, after replacing the motherboard, if you use the Easy Restore feature to restore the UEFI Diagnostic utility, the UEFI Diagnostic is restored successfully. However, the iDRAC web interface may not show the restored Diagnostic version in the System Inventory page.
Issue 32: Description In the iDRAC web interface, the following storage pending operations status is not displayed in Pending Operations pop-up message and Storage->Pending Operations page: • Virtual Disk(s) - Encrypt operations. • Controller(s) - Create, Modify, or Delete security key operations. • Controller(s) - Import or Clear Foreign Configuration operations. • PCIe SSD(s) - Secure Erase or Prepare to Remove operations. Resolution None.
Versions/ Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8. Issue 37: Description Sometimes Virtual Console does not get enabled after iDRAC is reset. Resolution Toggle the Virtual Console option in the iDRAC web interface. Versions/ Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8. Issue 38: Description When you update the rebrand image from the iDRAC web interface, the system reboots and the rebranded images are applied successfully.
Versions/ Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8. Issue 42: Description When the physical drives connected to a PERC storage controller are in Non-RAID (or unitialized) state, the size reported by the iDRAC interfaces (WS-MAN, RACADM, and iDRAC GUI) is slightly less than the actual size of the drive. Resolution This is only a reporting issue. Full capacity of the drives can be used to deploy the operating systems.
Resolution After setting the password with racadm, ensure that you enable the user using either racadm or iDRAC GUI. You can also set the plain text password in the GUI by selecting the Change Password check box and ensuring that the Enable User check box is selected. Versions/ Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8. Issue 47: Description After importing a server profile, the Input Power Redundant option does not appear under Redundancy Policy on the Power Configuration page.
Issue 51: Description While enumerating using WS-MAN, if you include more than 7 properties in the WQL/CQL query, the select query does not return any result. Resolution The maximum number of properties that can be included in a WQL/CQL query using WS-MAN is 7. Perform the filtering on the client system or make multiple calls each having not more than 7 properties. Versions/ Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8.
Issue 56: Description On the Dell 12th generation PowerEdge systems, when downgrading from 2.10.10 to 1.66.65, existing users may occasionally be lost. Resolution Re-enter the users after the downgrade. It is recommended that you check the custom settings while upgrading or downgrading the firmware. Versions/ Systems Affected All Dell 12th generation PowerEdge systems downgraded from 2.10.10.10 to 1.66.65.
Issue 61: Description SNMP Agent Default Community Name (public). [Nessus] Resolution iDRAC provides limited read-only information to 3rd party tools for identification purposes only. The SNMP Agent is enabled by default and uses the default SNMP community name. The SNMP Agent can be disabled or SNMP community name can be changed if not using 3rd party tools. Versions/Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8. Issue 62: Description SSL Certificate - Self-Signed Certificate.
Issue 206438: Description The possible values for the WS-MAN IOI Persistence attributes are confusing to understand.
Issue 227854: Description On certain instances, the communication between iSM and iDRAC fails after enabling or disabling the USB NIC port. Resolution: Rebooting iDRAC using the racreset command in the RACADM interface. Versions/Systems Affected: Dell 13th generation of PowerEdge servers with iDRAC8. Issue 235870: Description: On systems with Emulex NDC, iDRAC may lose connectivity while switching LOMs. Resolution: Reboot the host operating system or power cycle the chassis to recover.
Versions/Systems Affected: All Dell 13th generation of PowerEdge servers. Issue 239011: Description: Email alert is not supported for iDRAC Basic license and it is always enabled on the iDRAC web interface. Disable the email alert checkboxes for basic management license. Resolution: None. Versions/Systems Affected: All Dell 13th generation of PowerEdge servers. Issue 233766: Description Peak power and current values in iDRAC8 web GUI may appear abnormally high.
Resolution: None. Versions/Systems Affected: Dell PowerEdge M1000e systems. Issue 232183: Description MAC Address is displayed in the iDRAC GUI for Intel 8F6NV Card, instead of Flex Address MAC only on WWN/MAC page.
iDRAC - Limitations • If floppy emulation is enabled when a bootable USB key is mounted as a Virtual Media from the Virtual Console and if you try to delete any file from the mounted USB key (floppy), the blue screen appears immediately. • Web server session time-out is not exact. It is either 10% more or 15 seconds more, whichever is greater. • WinRM and RACADM commands may become unresponsive during BIOS update or when setting BIOS, NIC, or RAID attributes through Lifecycle Controller.
• USB NIC IP address must always be assigned Link Local address. Assigning IP address other than Link Local IP address or conflicting IP address of other network interface may cause network related issues. • iDRAC Virtual NIC driver is not loaded when Windows 2008 SP2 (64-bit) installation has completed. • When Virtual Console is in Lifecycle Controller, if Next Boot is set to BIOS Setup, rebooting the system boots to Lifecycle Controller instead of BIOS Setup.
LC GUI - Known Issues Issue 1: Description If FlexAddress is enabled on Chassis Management Controllers, iDRAC and Lifecycle Controller do not display the same MAC addresses. Resolution To view the chassis-assigned MAC address, use the iDRAC web interface or the CMC web interface. Go to General-> Network Settings. Versions/Systems Affected All LC–supported Dell PowerEdge servers.
• 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 After you successfully update the firmware of a CPLD on a modular server, and then perform a firmware update operation of a component that requires a system restart (such as BIOS), the server is automatically and repeatedly restarted. Resolution Perform a Power Cycle operation on the server.
Resolution Wait for a few minutes and check the Network Settings page to view the assigned IPv6 address. 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 (-, _, .
example, when Windows Server 2008 x64 is selected for installation and Windows Server 2003 x64 media is inserted, • Lifecycle Controller proceeds with the installation without displaying a warning message. • Lifecycle Controller does not support operating system deployment on Dell Precision workstation R7910.
• If the boot mode is set to UEFI in BIOS (F2 setup) and if you launch System Services (FlO) and Deploy OS, the installation may fail or you may not be able to boot to the OS after the installation. Always make sure that the boot mode is set to BIOS in F2 setup before launching Lifecycle Controller and deploying the OS. • You may see a no optical device found error if you have a non-usable DVD/CD in the optical drive. This error does not mean that there are no optical devices on the system.
Limitations on updating firmware on Broadcom and QLogic adapters using iDRAC interfaces such as WSMAN, RACADM, iDRAC GUI, and Lifecycle Controller UI: • o Rollback of Broadcom NetXtreme I to 7.10.X and QLogic BCM57xx and BCM57xxx Ethernet adapters to 7.12.X from the iDRAC GUI may result in failure of rollback to 7.12.X. o Updating Broadcom NetXtreme I to 7.10.X and QLogic BCM57xx and BCM57xxx Ethernet adapters to 7.12.7 results in updating both Broadcom NetXtreme I and QLogic BCM57xx and BCM57xxx to 7.
Upgrade Not applicable. Uninstallation Not applicable. Lifecycle Controller Remote Services - Client Tools Use the WinRM and OpenWSMAN CLI client tools to send WS-MAN commands to Lifecycle Controller. WinRM WinRM is a Windows native WS-MAN client. It is recommended to use WinRM 2.0 on Windows Management Stations. WinRM 2.0 is installed by default as a part of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
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