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
• For 11th and 12th generation of PowerEdge servers, you can modify DHS for RAID as One or None
and for 13th generation of PowerEdge servers you can retain only the existing RAID settings of the
server.
To modify a hardware configuration profile:
1. In DLCI Console Add-in for SC2012 VMM, click Hardware Profile.
2. Select the profile that you want to modify and click Edit.
3. Make the required changes and click Finish.
Deleting hardware profile
Consider the following when you are deleting a hardware profile:
• If you delete a hardware profile, the deployment template associated with this hardware profile is
updated.
To delete a hardware configuration profile:
1. In DLCI Console Add-in for SC2012 VMM, click Hardware Profile.
2. Select the hardware profile that you want to delete and click Delete.
Creating hypervisor profile
You can create a hypervisor profile and use the profile to deploy the operating system on the servers. A
hypervisor profile contains a customized WinPE ISO (WinPE ISO is used for hypervisor deployment), host
group and host profile taken from SC2012 VMM, and LC drivers for injection.
Prerequisites:
• The required WinPE ISO is created and the ISO is available in the share folder of DLCI Integration
gateway for SC2012 VMM. To update WinPE image, see WinPE image update.
• In SC2012 VMM, a Host group, a Host profile, or physical computer profile is created.
To create a hypervisor profile:
1. In DLCI Console Add-in for SC2012 VMM, do any of the following:
• In dashboard, click Create Hypervisor Profiles.
• In the left navigation pane, click Profiles and Templates, click Hypervisor Profiles, and then click
Create.
2. In the Hypervisor Profile Wizard, Welcome page, click Next.
3. In Hypervisor Profile, provide a name and description for the profile, and then click Next.
4. In SC2012 VMM information page, provide the SC2012 VMM Host Group Destination and SC2012
VMM Host Profile/Physical Computer Profile information.
5. In WinPE Boot Image Source, provide the <Network WinPE ISO file name>.iso information, and then
click Next.
6. (Optional) To enable LC driver injection; if enabled, select the operating system that you want to
deploy so that the relevant drivers are picked up. Select Enable LC Drivers Injection and in
Hypervisor Version, select the required hypervisor version.
7. In Summary, click Finish.
Modifying hypervisor profile
Consider the following when you are modifying a hypervisor profile:
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