Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 8 (iDRAC8) and iDRAC7 with Lifecycle Controller for Dell PowerEdge Servers Version 2.35.35.
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 iDRAC7 and iDRAC8 The following operating systems are supported by iDRAC7 and iDRAC8: • Windows Server 2012 Foundation Edition • Windows Server 2012 Essentials Edition • Windows Server 2012 Standard Edition • Windows Server 2012 Datacenter Edition • Windows Server 2012 R2 Foundation Edition • Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials Edition • Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard Edition • Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter Edition • Windows Server 2012 for
iDRAC - Important Notes • Lifecycle Controller features such as Auto Discovery and vFlash are now licensed. Install the correct licenses for Lifecycle Controller Remote Services to work properly. • Only if there is one or more network interface cards (NDC or LOM) present on the managed system, Network Devices appears under Overview -> Hardware section in the iDRAC web interface.
• Due to the independent nature of the alert processes (e-mail, SMTP, remote syslog), when changing the licenses that affect alert features (example, email alerts for Express or remote syslog for Enterprise) there is no guarantee of the timing of the features being activated or deactivated when the license changes. • In the iDRAC web interface, when the System Inventory page is accessed for the first time, it takes up to two minutes for the inventory data to be collected.
iDRAC - Known Issues Issue 1: Description In Chinese locale on Windows operating system, while launching the Virtual Console using Java plug-in, occasionally you may see a Java compilation error. Resolution 1. 2. 3. Open the Java control panel. Go to General -> Network Settings. Select Direct Connection and click OK. Versions/Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8.
Resolution Do not use double quotes for the VNC password. Versions/Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8. Issue 6: Description In some scenarios, typically for state change events occurring within a span of few seconds, the sequence of events reported in the Lifecycle Log (or corresponding SNMP traps) for storage devices may not exactly match the sequence in which they occurred.
Issue 10: Description For storage configuration operations (example, virtual disk creation, assign hot spare, foreign configuration operations, and so on) that are executed real-time (that is, not requiring a server reboot), the corresponding job status may be displayed as failed even though the operation was successful. Resolution View the Lifecycle Controller Logs to check whether there are any relevant messages indicating the success of the individual configuration operations.
Issue 14: Description Power Cap (in Watts, BTU/hr, %) is not accepting values preceding with zero (0). Resolution Do not precede a zero (0) while entering value for Power Cap in the Power Configuration page. Versions/Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8. Issue 15: Description In the Network Interfaces page > Host OS Network Interfaces section, the link to the Network Devices page is not available for embedded LOM.
Issue 19: Description The firmware images for all components are deleted from the firmware partition on Lifecycle Controller, when the partition reaches 90% of space limit. After the firmware images are deleted, the rollback option for all the components is listed as NULL, across all interfaces such as WS-MAN, RACADM, GUI and the following log message is logged in the Lifecycle log: "RED032: Reached maximum size limit allowed for storing firmware images. Deleted all rollback firmware images.
Resolution Make sure the total size is less than 300 MB and then perform an update. Versions/Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8. Issue 24: Description Repository update operations through iDRAC with reserved characters in user name and password may not be successful at the DUP download stage, even when they are properly percent encoded by the user. This does not affect other update methods. Resolution Use a user name and password without reserved characters and then perform an update.
Also, logs the following within the next few minutes: PWR2264 "The Intel Management Engine has reported normal system operation." Resolution No action required. Versions/Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8. Issue 29: 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.
Issue 33: Description URL string in iDRAC hardware inventory list displays incorrect https port number. Resolution IP URL in hardware inventory output always displays the standard https port number, that is, 443. Versions/ Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8. Issue 34: 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 While importing or replacing license files using Google Chrome or Microsoft Internet Explorer, the operation fails for certain license files. Resolution Import or replace the license files using other supported browser(s) or using other interfaces such as RACADM, Lifecycle Controller, and so on. Versions/ Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8.
Versions/ Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8. Issue 43: Description When setting the plain text password of an account using racadm after it is set with a SHA256 password (using either XML config or RACADM), the account is disabled. Resolution After setting the password with racadm, ensure that you enable the user using either racadm or iDRAC GUI.
Resolution Use Enumeration or Get Instance call to view the same data. The required properties can be filtered by the consoles. Versions/ Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8. Issue 48: 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.
Resolution Use RACADM, WS-MAN, or OMSS to create virtual disks with T10 PI capability. Versions/ Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8. Issue 53: 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.
Resolution By default, iDRAC enables SNMP v1, v2, and v3 protocol to validate SNMP queries and gets received from remote systems requesting SNMP data access. Disable SNMP service if not using. To secure credentials, enable SNMP v3 only using RACADM or iDRAC Web interface. Versions/Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8. Issue 58: Description SNMP Agent Default Community Name (public).
Issue 110977: Description When IO Identity Optimization is enabled and you configure the Virtual Addresses, Storage Initiator, and Target settings, the job runs correctly. However, ConfigResults do not list the change set. Resolution Refer the Lifecycle Controller logs. Version/Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8. Issue 236311: Description Persistence policy is not supported on ChassisSlot NIC devices.
Resolution None. Versions/Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC7 and iDRAC8 (PERC8 and PERC9). Issue 171960: Description Lifecycle Controller firmware is inaccessible after a performing hardware diagnostic and rebooting the system. This issue is captured in the Lifecycle Controller log. Resolution Reboot the system again to start Lifecycle Controller. Versions/Systems Affected Dell 13th generation of PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8.
Resolution When USB NIC is enabled in iDRAC for the first time, the iDRAC virtual USB NIC device is displayed in the other devices list in the Windows Device Manager. Select the iDRAC Virtual USB NIC device and manually install the Microsoft Remote NDIS compatible Device Network Adapter driver. Versions/ Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with USB 3.0 enabled in BIOS and running Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system on the host server.
possible. When in this degraded state, if a blocked operation is attempted, an appropriate error will occur, but may be different depending on the interface. Versions/Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8. Issue 233773: Description After applying the Boot Identity profile on the PowerEdge M630 blade server with DX69G NDC card on port 1, the WWN/MAC page displays the MAC Addresses under the Flexaddress tab only instead of displaying in Remote assigned MAC Address tab. Resolution None.
Issue 253227: Description Occasionally, after changing NIC Selection, you may not be able to set NIC Failover. Resolution Reboot iDRAC or perform an AC power cycle to clear the issue. Versions/ Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8 2.21.21.
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.
• Fibre channel NIC cards with dual or four ports are displayed as a single port card in Lifecycle Controller. However, all ports are updated when a firmware update is performed. • The option to enable or disable the disk cache policy for SWRAID controllers are supported only on SWRAID controller driver version 4.1.0-0025 or later. 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 distinguish between the port numbers, see the MAC address or the Device Settings. You can access Device Settings in the following methods: • During POST, press , and then click System Setup. • On the Lifecycle Controller Home page, click System Setup, and then click Advanced Hardware Configuration.
Issue 9: Description The process of retrieving IPv6 address from the DHCP server with VLAN connection takes a few minutes. 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 (-, _, .
• Network operations such as Update, Export, or Import may take more time than expected. The delay may occur because the source or destination share is not reachable or does not exist, or due to other network issues. • Lifecycle Controller displays a warning message if the operating system selected for installation and the operating system on the media used are different.
LC-RS - Limitations • The drivers exposed by Lifecycle Controller are present in a read-only device labeled OEMDRV, and the device is active for 18 hours. In a Microsoft(r) Windows(r) and Linux environment, the drivers are automatically installed and no further action is required. In Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4.8 only, the drivers are not automatically installed and you have to install the drivers manually after the OS installation has been completed.
• Collect System Inventory On Reboot (CSIOR) must to be run before enum is successful. • BCM57xx /BCM57xxx updates Limitations - When you update the firmware on Broadcom NetXterme I and QLogic BCM57xx/BCM57xxx (previously known as Broadcom NetXtreme II) Ethernet adapters, you may notice failure or incorrect rollback version displayed based on the firmware update used.
7. 8. Select the firmware file and click Install or Install and Reboot. If it is a DUP, Install dynamically changes to Install and Reboot and at the same time the Install Next Reboot is activated. When you click Install and Reboot or Install Next Reboot, the message “Updating Job Queue” is displayed. Click OK. The Job Queue page is displayed, where you can view and manage the firmware update. After the update is completed, iDRAC8 restarts automatically.
Sample OpenWSMAN CLI Command (Enumeration Operation): wsman enumerate http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wscim/1/cim-schema/2/DCIM_SystemView -h (idrac ip adddress) -P 443 -u (idrac user) -p (idrac password) -v -j utf-8 -y basic -R -o -m 256 -N root/dcim -c cert_name.cer -V Note: Lifecycle Controller uses a self-signed certificate for HTTPS (SSL) communication. Self-signed certificates are not accepted by the OpenWSMAN CLI client and WS-MAN commands do not work without these options: -c, -v, and –V.
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