Owner's Manual

Platform(s) Affected

The 13

generation of Dell PowerEdge servers

What is Supported

For information on the hardware and software requirements;

Installing and uninstalling DLCI for SC2012 VMM, see the "Dell

Lifecycle Controller Integration Version 1.0 for Microsoft System

Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager Installation Guide."

What’s New

With DLCI for SC2012 VMM, you can do the following:

 Check for server compliance — ensure that the Dell servers are

compliant.

Compliance of Dell Servers - For using the features available in DLCI

for SC2012 VMM, Dell servers must have the required firmware

versions of iDRAC, Lifecycle Controller (LC), and BIOS.

DLCI for SC2012 VMM checks for the required versions of the

preceding software and if the required versions of the preceding

software are present, then the server is considered as compliant.

 Auto discover unassigned Dell servers — connect the server to the

power outlet. The server need not be powered on. Also, the

server’s iDRAC must have network connectivity and must

communicate with the provisioning server for DLCI appliance to

automatically discover the Dell servers.

 Servers discovered by appliance are known as unassigned servers

and these servers are available for operating system deployment.

The servers can be bare-metal servers or servers that need to be

redeployed into the SCVMM environment.

 Manually discover unassigned Dell servers — discover the 13th

generation of Dell PowerEdge servers and deploy the servers in a

virtual environment.