Users Guide

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
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
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
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................................................................................24
Viewing or exporting current inventory after resetting Lifecycle Controller...............................................................25
Lifecycle Controller log....................................................................................................................................................... 25
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