Release Notes

LC2-RS - Limitations
• The drivers exposed by Lifecycle Controller are present in a read-only device labeled OEMDRV,
and the device is active for 18 hours. In a Microsoft(r) Windows(r) and Linux environment, the
drivers are automatically installed and no further action is required. In Red Hat Enterprise Linux
version 4.8 only, the drivers are not automatically installed and you have to install the drivers
manually after the OS installation has been completed.
• If the boot mode is set to UEFI in BIOS (F2 setup) and if you launch System Services (FlO) and
Deploy OS, the installation may fail or you may not be able to boot to the OS after the
installation. Always make sure that the boot mode is set to BIOS in F2 setup before launching
Lifecycle Controller and deploying the OS.
• You may see a no optical device found error if you have a non-usable DVD/CD in the optical
drive. This error does not mean that there are no optical devices on the system. If you remove
the non-usable media, then this error is resolved.
• To maintain compatibility with other iDRAC configuration tools, it is recommended that only
digits (0-9), alphanumeric (a-z, A-Z) and hyphen (-) characters be used when entering a “Name”
or “Password” string. When entering a “Domain Name”, such as ‘x123.com’, a period (.) character
is also permissible.
• When attempting a Platform Update through an FTP server, specifying a valid proxy server but
selecting an invalid proxy type causes Lifecycle Controller to halt for a long period (possibly over
30 minutes) before it returns to normal operation.
• If you see this error message “Unable to find a boot device on which to install the operating
system. Verify boot disk availability.” and if you have a USB key plugged in to the system after
booting to Lifecycle Controller, remove the USB key before deploying the operating system.
• If you are updating iDRAC firmware using a tool other than Lifecycle Controller, do not run
Lifecycle Controller during the firmware update because doing this result in unknown behavior.
After the firmware is successfully updated, you can safely use Lifecycle Controller.
• When configuring the FTP server for your repository in the platform update, you may get a
message that indicates that a network connection exists with your FTP server; however, it may
mean that the validation process needs some extra time depending on your network setting.
Click
OK on the message box, and try one more time to connect to the FTP server.
• Account access can be disabled only if there is more than one user enabled on the iDRAC. To
enable users, access the iDRAC Web-based GUI. Navigate to the Users section under the
Network/Security tab and enable users as needed. Note that at least one more user needs to be
enabled to disable the account access in the Lifecycle Controller. In the iDRAC Configuration
Wizard, the DNS Domain Name may contain a maximum of 64 ASCII characters.
• When attempting a Platform Rollback, there may be a two minute delay before Rollback tasks
are displayed on the screen.
• In the iDRAC Configuration Wizard, there is no a selection for auto-attached on the Virtual
Media Configuration page.
• During an UEFI based SLES 10 and SLES 11 installation, make sure that no additional USB or block
storage devices are connected to the system. If there are one or more USB or block storage
devices plugged into the system, the auto loading of drivers from the embedded storage fails.
This fails because the current implementation of SLES installer reads only from one USB or block
storage device.
• If an invalid SD card is attached to the system, the values shown for “Health” and “Available
Space” options are not applicable.
• An “Invalid Update Package” error message is displayed, when
− the folder containing the Update Package is not accessible.
− the Update Package is not present on the USB mass storage device.
− name of the Update Package is incorrect.
• Only Windows operating system can be deployed on systems with software RAID controller.
• Using Platform Update, you cannot update components such as Complex Programmable Logic
Device, Backplane, and Physical Disk. However, the View Current Versions table displays these
components.