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Use Case Scenarios 83

• Import does not restore diagnostics or driver pack information.

• By default, import preserves the current virtual disk configuration.

NOTE: If you want to delete the current virtual disk configuration and restore

the configuration from the backup image file, use the PreserveVDConfig

parameter with a value of

0. This does not restore content that was on the virtual

disk during the backup (for example, Operating System), but only creates a blank

virtual disk and sets the attributes.

• Additional reboots during task execution occurs because the system is

trying to set the configuration for a device that attempts to run the task

again. Check the logs for information on what devices failed.

•To invoke the

RestoreImage()

method, the iDRAC user must have

administrative privileges.

• To get Remote Service status, if you keep getting

Not Ready

for status,

invoke the

DeleteJobQueue()

method with

JID_CLEARALL

as the job

id. This clears the job store, but also restarts the Remote Service.

• The controller allows creation of global hot spares even if there are no

virtual disks, and removes them after the system reboots. If a hot spare is

created without a virtual disk, the restore operation is attempted on the

SAS controller and an error is reported if the restore is not possible. The

restore operation on the SAS controller may fail if there are unsupported

RAID levels.

• After Importing the server profile, the currently installed firmware version

is the rollback version.

Example 1

: The currently installed BIOS firmware version is 2.2 and

version 2.1 was installed during export. After import, version 2.1 is the

installed version and 2.2 is the rollback version.

Example 2

: The currently installed BIOS firmware version is 2.1 and

version 2.1 was installed during export. After import, version 2.1 is the

installed version and 2.1 is the rollback version.

Workflow

Construct the input parameters depending on the location of the backup

image file; iDRAC vFlash card or network share (CIFS or NFS).

Invoke the

RestoreImage()

method. A job id (for example,

JID_001291194119

) is returned to the screen.