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
To perform auto discovery on Dell servers:
1. In the appliance, create a device type credential profile (by specifying the iDRAC credentials and
marking it as default) for Dell servers. For more information, see Creating a credential profile.
2. In Dell servers that you want to auto discover, do the following:
a. Disable the existing Admin accounts in iDRAC.
b. In the iDRAC settings, in remote enablement, enable Auto-Discovery.
c. After enabling auto discovery, provide the provisioning server (that is DLCI Appliance) IP address
and restart the server.
Discovering servers using manual discovery
You can manually discover servers using an IP address or an IP range. To discover servers, provide the
servers’ iDRAC IP and the servers’ device type credentials. When you are discovering servers using an IP
range, specify an IP (IPv4) range (within a subnet).
To manually discover Dell servers:
1. In DLCI Console Add-in for SC2012 VMM, do any of the following:
• In the dashboard, click Discover Unassigned Servers.
• In the navigation pane, click Device Inventory and in Inventory click Discover.
2. In Discover, select the required option:
• Discover Using an IP Address
• Discover Using an IP Range
3. Select the required device type credential profile, or click Create New to create a credential profile.
4. In Discover Using an IP Address or IP Address Range, do any of the following:
• If you selected Discover Using an IP Address, then provide the IP address of the server you want
to discover.
• If you selected Discover Using an IP Range, then provide the IP address range you want to
include and if you must exclude an IP address range, select Enable Exclude Range and provide
the range that you want to exclude.
5. In Job Options, to track this job, assign a job name and to view the job list, select Go to the Job List
after completing.
6. Click Finish.
Deleting servers from DLCI Console
You can delete the unassigned servers and host servers based on the following criteria:
• You can delete an unassigned server that is listed in the appliance.
• If a host server is provisioned in SCVMM and present in the appliance, first delete the server in SCVMM
and then delete the server from the appliance.
In DLCI Console:
• To delete unassigned servers — in Unassigned Servers, select the server and click Delete and in
the confirmation message click Yes.
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