User's Manual

Hardware Inventory View and Export.................................................................................................25
About View and Export Current Inventory.........................................................................................25
About View and Export Factory-Shipped Inventory.......................................................................... 25
Viewing Hardware Inventory—Current or Factory-Shipped.............................................................26
Exporting Hardware Inventory—Current or Factory-Shipped.......................................................... 26
USB Drive....................................................................................................................................... 27
Network Share............................................................................................................................... 27
Viewing or Exporting Hardware Inventory After Part Replacement................................................. 28
Viewing and Exporting Current Inventory After Resetting Lifecycle Controller...............................28
Lifecycle Log....................................................................................................................................... 29
Viewing Lifecycle Log History.......................................................................................................29
Exporting Lifecycle Log.................................................................................................................30
Adding Work Note to Lifecycle Log..............................................................................................31
5 Firmware Update.................................................................................................... 33
Download Methods.............................................................................................................................34
Version Compatibility..........................................................................................................................34
Updating Firmware..............................................................................................................................34
Selecting Type of Update And Update Source............................................................................ 36
Using Single Component DUPs....................................................................................................39
Selecting and Applying Updates...................................................................................................40
Firmware Rollback.............................................................................................................................. 40
Rolling Back to Previous Firmware Versions................................................................................ 41
6 Configure..................................................................................................................43
System Control Panel Access Options...............................................................................................43
Controlling Access to Front Panel................................................................................................43
Configuring iDRAC..............................................................................................................................44
Configuring System Time And Date...................................................................................................44
Configuring vFlash SD Card................................................................................................................45
Enabling or Disabling vFlash......................................................................................................... 45
Initializing vFlash............................................................................................................................45
Configuring RAID................................................................................................................................ 46
Foreign Configuration Found....................................................................................................... 46
Viewing Current RAID Configuration........................................................................................... 47
Selecting RAID Levels....................................................................................................................47
Selecting Physical Disks................................................................................................................ 48
Setting Virtual Disk Attributes....................................................................................................... 48
Viewing Summary......................................................................................................................... 49
Configuring RAID Using Software RAID.............................................................................................49
Creating a Secure Virtual Disk on Series 8 Controller.......................................................................50
Key Encryption.....................................................................................................................................51