Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration Version 1.2 for Microsoft System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager User’s Guide
- About Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration for Microsoft System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager
- Installing and setting up DLCI Console Add-in
- Getting Started
- Workflows
- About golden configurations
- Creating golden configurations
- Creating, managing, and deleting credential profiles
- Creating, managing, and deleting update sources
- Creating, managing, and deleting custom update groups
- Applying updates on servers, or server groups
- Creating, managing, and deleting protection vaults
- Exporting server profile
- Importing server profile
- Hypervisor deployment
- Deleting servers
- Setting up the environment for deploying hypervisors
- Server discovery
- System requirements for managed systems
- Enabling CSIOR in managed systems
- Discovering servers using auto discovery
- Discovering servers using manual discovery
- Deleting servers from DLCI Console
- Viewing device inventory
- Synchronization with SC2012 VMM
- Synchronizing appliance with SCVMM
- Resolving synchronization errors
- Launching iDRAC Console
- License for the appliance
- Server management
- Profiles and templates
- About credential profile
- Creating hardware profile
- Modifying hardware configuration profile
- Deleting hardware profile
- Creating hypervisor profile
- Modifying hypervisor profile
- Deleting hypervisor profile
- WinPE Update
- About hypervisor deployment
- Creating deployment template
- Modifying deployment template
- Deleting deployment template
- Deploying hypervisors
- Viewing information in appliance
- Troubleshooting
- Account deletion in SC2012 VMM
- Comparison report not displayed in Maintenance Center
- Compatibility issue of appliance with ADK
- Empty cluster update group does not get deleted during autodiscovery or synchronization
- Discovery jobs not submitted
- Duplicate VRTX chassis group gets created
- Exporting configuration profile of another server after IP address is changed
- Error accessing the appliance after changing network configuration
- Error accessing plugin after updating SCVMM R2
- Failure to connect to server
- Failure of creation of update source
- Failure of firmware update on cluster update group
- Failure of a scheduled job on an update group
- Failure of firmware update because of job queue being full
- Failure to connect to FTP using system default update source
- Failure to create a repository during a firmware update
- Failure to delete a custom update group
- Failure to export server profiles
- Firmware update on a few components irrespective of the selection
- IG installation issue while running multiple instances of the installer on the same server
- Importing server profile job gets timed out after two hours
- Hypervisor deployment failure
- Hypervisor deployment failure due to driver files retained in library share
- Latest inventory information is not displayed even after firmware update
- SC2012 VMM error 21119 while adding servers to active directory
- Connection lost between appliance and Integration Gateway
- Hypervisor deployment fails for 11th generation PowerEdge blade servers when using Active Directory
- RAID configuration failure for virtual disks with RAID10
- Configuration of RAID failure due to configuration of hot spares on software RAID S130
- Accessing documents from Dell support site
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Server discovery
You can do out-of-band discovery of unassigned Dell servers and import information about Dell servers
into the appliance. For discovering servers, connect the Dell servers to the network, power on the servers,
log in to iDRAC, update the provisioning server IP with the IP of the DLCI appliance and disable the
administrator account for DLCI appliance to automatically discover the servers. For more information
about configuring the server, see Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller documentation.
You can also discover unassigned Dell servers by using the following options:
• Auto discovery of unassigned servers.
• Manual discovery based on IP addresses.
You can discover Hyper-V hosts and modular Hyper-V hosts along with unassigned servers. After
discovery, the servers are added to respective predefined update groups. For more information on
classification of groups, see Update Management.
Server discovery notes:
• When you discover a Dell PowerEdge server with an operating system and present in SCVMM, then
the server is listed as a host server and marked as compliant or non-compliant.
– A host server is compliant when it contains minimum versions of LC firmware, iDRAC, and BIOS
that are required to work with the appliance.
– If the host is a modular server, then the service tag of the chassis containing the server is
displayed. If the host is part of a cluster, then the Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) of the
cluster is displayed.
• When you discover a Dell PowerEdge server that is not listed in SCVMM, then the server is listed as an
unassigned server and marked as compliant or noncompliant.
• If you provide incorrect credential details, then based on the iDRAC version, the following resolutions
are available:
– While discovering a 12th generation Dell PowerEdge server with iDRAC version 2.10.10.10 and
later, during login if you input incorrect details for credential profile, based on your attempts, the
server discovery fails with the following behavior:
* For first attempt, server IP address is not blocked.
* For second attempt, server IP address is blocked for 30 seconds.
* For third and subsequent attempts, server IP address is blocked for 60 seconds.
You can reattempt server discovery with correct credential profile details once the IP address is
unblocked.
– While discovering an 11th or 12th generation PowerEdge server with iDRAC versions prior to
2.10.10.10, if server discovery attempts fail due to input of incorrect credential profile details, then
rediscover the server with the correct credential profile details.
– For iDRAC versions prior to 2.10.10.10, blocking of IP addresses is configurable. For more
information, see iDRAC documentation at dell.com/support/home. Based on your requirement,
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