Users Guide

Chapter 1: Introduction................................................................................................................. 7
Why use Lifecycle Controller?..........................................................................................................................................7
Benefits of using iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller...................................................................................................... 7
What's new in this release?.............................................................................................................................................. 8
Key features..........................................................................................................................................................................8
Licensable features in Lifecycle Controller....................................................................................................................8
Viewing iDRAC license information................................................................................................................................. 9
Other documents you may need......................................................................................................................................9
Social Media Reference.............................................................................................................................................. 10
Accessing documents from Dell support site..............................................................................................................10
Contacting Dell.................................................................................................................................................................... 11
Chapter 2: Using Lifecycle Controller.......................................................................................... 12
Starting Lifecycle Controller........................................................................................................................................... 12
Start messages during POST, causes, and resolutions.......................................................................................12
Enabling Lifecycle Controller..................................................................................................................................... 13
Disabling Lifecycle Controller.................................................................................................................................... 13
Canceling Lifecycle Controller actions....................................................................................................................13
Using Lifecycle Controller for the first time................................................................................................................14
Setting up Lifecycle Controller using Initial Setup Wizard................................................................................. 14
Setting up Lifecycle Controller from the home page.......................................................................................... 16
Lifecycle Controller features........................................................................................................................................... 17
Chapter 3: Operating system deployment.................................................................................... 18
Installing an operating system.........................................................................................................................................18
Using the optional RAID configuration..........................................................................................................................19
Configuring RAID using the operating system deployment wizard.......................................................................20
Unattended installation.................................................................................................................................................... 20
UEFI Secure Boot..............................................................................................................................................................20
Driver access.......................................................................................................................................................................21
Installing an operating system on iSCSI LUN and FCoE LUN................................................................................. 21
Post reboot scenarios....................................................................................................................................................... 21
Chapter 4: Monitor...................................................................................................................... 22
Hardware inventory view and export........................................................................................................................... 22
About view and export current inventory................................................................................................................... 22
About view and export factory-shipped inventory................................................................................................... 22
Viewing hardware inventory — current or factory shipped................................................................................... 23
Exporting hardware inventory — current or factory shipped................................................................................23
Exporting hardware inventory to a USB drive......................................................................................................23
Exporting hardware inventory to network share................................................................................................. 24
Viewing or exporting hardware inventory after part replacement........................................................................25
Viewing or exporting current inventory after resetting Lifecycle Controller..................................................... 25
Lifecycle Controller log.................................................................................................................................................... 25
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