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• Improved Productivity and Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) — Extending the reach of administrators to larger

numbers of distant servers can make IT staff more productive while driving down operational costs such as travel.

• Secure Environment — By providing secure access to remote servers, administrators can perform critical

management functions, while maintaining server and network security.

• Enhanced Embedded Management through Lifecycle Controller – Lifecycle Controller provides deployment and

simplified serviceability through Lifecycle Controller GUI for local deployment and Remote Services (WS-

Management) interfaces for remote deployment integrated with Dell OpenManage Essentials and partner consoles.

For more information on iDRAC7, see

Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller User’s Guide

available at dell.com/

support/manuals.

What's New in this Release?

The new features for this release are:

• Support for the following operating systems:

– Windows Server 2012 R2

– SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 3 (SP3)

– vSphere v5.5

– Citrix XenServer 6.2. For more information about the supported OSs, see the Lifecycle Controller Release Notes

available at dell.com/esmmanuals.

• Firmware update for Single-level Cell (SLC) and Multi-level Cell (MLC) types of PCIe Solid-state Drives (SSDs).

• Displays the catalog version and ID

• Support for 64–bit DUP update using catalog

• Support for Mellanox Network Configuration

• Hardware components in the Hardware Inventory supports FQDD naming convention.

• Support for the following Fiber Channel cards:

– QLogic QLE2660 Single Port FC16 HBA

– QLogic QLE2660 Single Port FC16 HBA (LP)

– QLogic QLE2662 Dual Port FC16 HBA

– QLogic QLE2662 Dual Port FC16 HBA (LP)

– QLogic QME2662 Dual Port FC16 HBA Mezzanine

– QLogic QLE2560 FC8 Single Channel HBA

– QLogic QLE2562 FC8 Dual Channel HBA

– QLogic FC8 Embedded Mezz Card QME2572

– Emulex LPe16000 Single Port FC16 HBA

– Emulex LPe16000 Single Port FC16 HBA (LP)

– Emulex LPe16002 Dual Port FC16 HBA

– Emulex LPe16002 Dual Port FC16 HBA (LP)

– Emulex LPm16002 Dual Port FC16 HBA Mezzanine

• Support for the following Broadcom cards:

– Broadcom 57840S Quad Port 10G SFP+ Rack NDC

– Broadcom 57840S-k Quad Port 10GbE Blade KR

• Part Replacement feature is available with iDRAC7 Express license.

• Support for 64-bit DUP-based single component update.