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 modify host profile, host group, and drivers from Lifecycle Controller.
• You can modify the WinpE ISO name; however, you cannot modify the ISO.
To modify a hypervisor profile:
1. In DLCI Console Add-in for SC2012 VMM, in Hypervisor Profile, select the profile that you want to
modify and click
Edit.
2. Provide the details and click Finish.
Deleting hypervisor profile
Consider the following when you are deleting a hypervisor profile:
• If a hypervisor profile is deleted, then the deployment template associated with the hypervisor profile
is also deleted.
To delete a hypervisor profile:
In DLCI Console Add-in for SC2012 VMM, in Hypervisor Profile, select the profile that you want to
delete and click Delete.
WinPE Update
A PreExecution Environment (PXE) server of SC2012 VMM is required for creating a WinPE image. A
WinPE ISO is created from the WinPE image and Dell OpenMange Deployment Toolkit (DTK).
NOTE: While using the latest version of DTK for creating a WinPE ISO image, use the Dell
OpenManage Deployment Toolkit for Windows file. The Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit
for Windows file contains the necessary firmware versions required for systems on which you are
deploying the operating systems. Use the latest version of the file, and do not use the Dell
OpenManage Deployment Toolkit Windows Driver Cabinet
file for WinPE update.
To create a WinPE ISO image:
1. Add the PXE server to the appliance.
2. After adding the PXE server, copy the boot.wim file from the PXE server to DLCI Integration Gateway
for SC2012 VMM share WIM folder. The boot.wim is present in the following path: C:\RemoteInstall
\DCMgr\Boot\Windows\Images.
NOTE: Do not change the filename of the boot.wim file.
DTK is a self-extracting executable file.
To work with DTK:
1. Double click the DTK executable file.
2. Select the folder to extract the DTK drivers, for example C:\DTK501.
3. Copy the extracted DTK folder to the Integration Gateway’s DTK share folder. For example \\DLCI IG
Share\DTK\DTK501.
NOTE: If you are upgrading from SC2012 VMM SP1 to SC2012 VMM R2, then upgrade to Windows
PowerShell 4.0. and create a WinPE ISO image.
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