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
You can refresh the firmware inventory for a server, a group of servers, or chassis to view the latest
information. When you refresh the component information of a server, the complete inventory
information of the server is refreshed.
NOTE:
• DLCI for SC2012 VMM version 1.2 is packaged with a catalog that displays an earlier version of
the comparison report for the predefined FTP and HTTP update source. Hence, download the
latest catalog to display the latest comparison report.
• When you upgrade to this version of DLCI for SC2012 VMM, the latest information is not shown
for servers discovered in prior versions. For the latest server information and correct comparison
report, rediscover the servers.
To view or refresh firmware inventory for a server or a group of servers:
1. In DLCI Console Add-in for SC2012 VMM, under Maintenance Center select an update group from
Select Update Group.
2. (Optional) To change the update source, select an update source from Select Update Source.
3. To view firmware information of the current version, baseline version, and update action
recommended by appliance, expand the server group from Device Group/Servers to the server
level, and then to the component level.
NOTE:
When viewing component level information, the NIC-related information for the 11th
generation of PowerEdge server is displayed as follows:
• After applying filters based on Nature of Update as Urgent, a report with the components
only with urgent updates are displayed. If this report is exported then components with
downgrade action which in turn have critical update is also exported.
• When there are multiple network interfaces available in a single NIC card, there is only one
entry for all the interfaces in the Component Information list. Once the firmware update is
applied, all the NIC cards are upgraded.
• When a NIC card is added along with the existing cards, the newly added NIC card is listed
as another instance in the Component Information list. Once the firmware update is
applied, all the NIC cards are upgraded.
4. Select the server or group of servers that you want to refresh, and then click Refresh Inventory.
Exporting server profiles
You can export a server profile, including the installed firmware images on various components such as
BIOS, RAID, NIC, iDRAC, Lifecycle Controller and the configuration of those components. The appliance
creates a file containing all the configurations, which you can save on a vFlash SD card or network share.
Select a protection vault of your choice to save this file. You can export the configuration profiles for a
server or a group of servers immediately or schedule it for a later date. Also, you can select the relevant
recurrence option as to how frequently the server profiles are exported. At an instance, you can schedule
only one export configuration job for a group of servers. You cannot perform any other activity on that
server or group of servers whose configuration profiles are being exported.
NOTE:
• Make sure that the Automatic Backup job in iDRAC is not scheduled at the same time.
• You cannot export server profiles after applying the filters. To export server profiles, clear all the
applied filters.
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