Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell Lifecycle Controller GUI Version 3.00.00.00 User's Guide
- Contents
- Introduction
- Using Lifecycle Controller
- Operating system deployment
- Monitor
- Hardware inventory view and export
- About view and export current inventory
- About view and export factory-shipped inventory
- Viewing hardware inventory — current or factory shipped
- Exporting hardware inventory — current or factory shipped
- Viewing or exporting hardware inventory after part replacement
- Viewing or exporting current inventory after resetting Lifecycle Controller
- Lifecycle Controller log
- Firmware update
- Configure
- System control panel access options
- Configuring iDRAC
- Configuring system time and date
- Configuring vFlash SD card
- Configuring RAID
- Configuring RAID using software RAID
- Creating a secure virtual disk on a RAID controller
- Key encryption
- Local key encryption mode
- Breaking mirrored drives
- System setup — Advanced Hardware Configuration
- Collect system inventory on restart
- Configuring local FTP server
- Configuring a local USB drive
- Configuring NFS and CIFS servers
- Conditions while configuring HTTP server
- Maintain
- Platform restore
- Backup server profile
- Export server profile
- Import server profile
- Import server license
- Part replacement configuration
- Repurpose or retire system
- Hardware diagnostics
- SupportAssist Collection
- Easy-to-use system component names
- Using the system setup and boot manager
- Troubleshooting and frequently asked questions
NOTE: The secure virtual drive is created only if the controller security key is created and the selected disks are
Self-Encrypting Drives (SEDs).
Viewing summary
The Summary page displays the virtual disk attributes based on selections.
CAUTION: Clicking Finish deletes all existing virtual drives except any foreign configurations that you specified.
All data residing on the virtual drives is lost.
To return to a previous page to review or change selections, click Back. To close the wizard without making changes, click
Cancel.
Click Finish to create a virtual drive with the displayed attributes.
Configuring RAID using software RAID
For the PERC S110 and S130 controllers, ensure to change the SATA settings in the system BIOS to RAID Mode. To change
the setting using the BIOS, the latest BIOS version must be installed. For more information about the BIOS versions for different
systems, see the Lifecycle Controller Release Notes at https://www.dell.com/support.
NOTE: If you have an older BIOS, you can configure RAID only through option ROM.
Use this feature to configure RAID, if a PERC S110 or S130 controller is enabled on the system. If you select the software RAID
option, you cannot create partial virtual disk through the Lifecycle Controller interface and it displays the physical disk-drives as
the Non-RAID disks or RAID-ready disks.
● Non-RAID disk—A single disk-drive without any RAID properties. Needs initialization to apply RAID levels.
● RAID-ready disk—The disk drive is initialized and a RAID level can be applied.
NOTE:
From Lifecycle Controller UI, you can deploy only Windows server operating system using software RAID
controller.
To configure software RAID:
1. Start Lifecycle Controller. For more information, see Starting Lifecycle Controller
2. In the left pane, click Hardware Configuration.
3. In the right pane, click Configuration Wizards.
4. Under Storage Configuration Wizards, click RAID Configuration to launch the wizard.
The View Current RAID Configuration and SelectController page is displayed.
Select the Windows or Linux RAID option to install the appropriate operating system. This option is available only for the
software RAID controller, which enabled only if the software RAID controller is supported.
NOTE:
Windows RAID supports RAID levels 0,1,5,and 10, but, the Linux RAID supports RAID level 1 only. Once the RAID
type is initialized, this option is greyed out in the LCUI. To enable the RAID type, go to BIOS F2 settings, convert the
RAID Type to Non-RAID disk.
5. Select the controller and click Next.
NOTE:
If the non-RAID disk drives are attached to the selected controller, select the non-RAID physical disk-drives, and
then click Next to initialize them. Else, the Select RAIDLevel page is displayed.
NOTE: During initialization, all the data on the non-RAID disk drives are deleted.
6. Select the RAIDlevel and click Next.
The Select Physical Disks page is displayed.
7. Select the physical disk properties and click Next.
The Virtual Disk Attributes page is displayed.
Select NVMe protocoltype to enable software RAID creation on the nVMe disks.To enable software RAID, go to BIOS F2
settings, and change the interface type to NVMe on the NVMe disks.
8. Select the virtual disk parameters and click Next.
The Summary page is displayed.
9. To apply the RAID configuration, click Finish.
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