Users Guide

Launching servers remote console and mounting a
USB drive
To launch the remote console and mount a USB drive:
1. Connect a USB flash drive (with the required image) to the management station.
2. Use the following method to launch virtual console through the iDRAC Web Interface:
• Go to Dashboard > Virtual Console and click Launch Virtual Console.
The Virtual Console Viewer is displayed.
3. From the File menu, click Virtual Media > Launch Virtual Media.
4. Click Add Image and select the image that is located on the USB flash drive.
The image is added to the list of available drives.
5. Select the drive to map it. The image on the USB flash drive is mapped to the managed system.
Installing bare metal OS using attached virtual
media and remote file share
See the Deploying operating system using remote file share section.
Managing rack density
Before you install additional servers in a rack, you must determine the remaining capacity in the rack.
To assess the capacity of a rack to add additional servers:
1. View the current power consumption data and historical power consumption data for the servers.
2. Based on the data, power infrastructure and cooling system limitations, enable the power cap policy and set the power cap values.
NOTE:
It is recommended that you set a cap close to the peak, and then use that capped level to determine how
much capacity is remaining in the rack for adding more servers.
Installing new electronic license
See License operations for more information.
Applying IO Identity configuration settings for
multiple network cards in single host system
reboot
If you have multiple network cards in a server that is part of a Storage Area Network (SAN) environment and you want to apply different
virtual addresses, initiator and target configuration settings to those cards, use the I/O Identity Optimization feature to reduce the time in
configuring the settings. To do this:
1. Make sure that BIOS, iDRAC, and the network cards are updated to the latest firmware version.
2. Enable IO Identity Optimization.
3. Export the Server Configuration Profile (SCP) file from iDRAC.
4. Edit the I/O Identity optimization settings in the SCP file.
5. Import the SCP file to iDRAC.
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