Users Guide
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About Dell Lifecycle Controller
Integration for Microsoft System Center
2012 Virtual Machine Manager
Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration (DLCI) for Microsoft System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager
(SC2012 VMM) enables hardware configuration, provides a solution to simplify and improve the process
of firmware updates, and hypervisor deployment on Dell servers. This plug-in uses the remote
deployment feature of the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) with Lifecycle Controller
(LC) providing a seamless user experience and you can leverage Dell’s value additions through Microsoft
System Center consoles to manage virtualized environments.
For information about Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager, see Microsoft documentation.
New features
The features for this release are as follows:
• Simplified licensing — to manage licenses, you do not require Dell Connections License Manager
(DCLM). More information on licensing is available under License Center in Admin portal.
• New credential profile types:
– Device credential profile — use to login to integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) or
Chassis Management Controller (CMC).
– Windows credential profile — use to access Windows Shares.
– FTP credential profile — use to access FTP site.
– Proxy server credentials — use to provide proxy credentials.
• Discovery — discover servers with cluster details if the host is a part of a cluster, and the chassis
details if it is a modular server.
• Synchronize with SCVMM — synchronize all Dell host systems listed in the SCVMM environment with
DLCI for SC2012 VMM, where hosts are hyper-v hosts managed by SCVMM.
– Resolve Sync Errors — resynchronize the host servers that were not synchronized during an earlier
attempt.
• Update Management — manage Dell servers in SCVMM environment and keep the servers up-to-date
as per Dell recommendations based on latest firmware and other updates. In this release, we support
update management of 11th generation to 13th generation of Dell PowerEdge servers.
– Key features in update management are as follows:
* Viewing comparison report — view comparison reports with criticality from an update source,
and then create a baseline version. Criticality is how important the update is.
* Refresh and export firmware inventory — refresh firmware inventory and export the inventory
details in an xml format.
* Applying updates — apply firmware updates immediately or schedule updates.
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