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
Failure to connect to FTP using system default update
source
After setting up and configuring, or upgrading the appliance, trying to access the FTP site using system
created update source Dell Online Catalog might fail if proxy credentials are required.
To access the FTP site using Dell Online Catalog as an update source edit, and add the proxy credentials.
Failure to create a repository during a firmware update
Creation of a repository may fail during a firmware update because of network issues, improper
credentials, or server not reachable, and so on.
As a workaround, ensure that the FTP server is reachable from where the appliance is hosted, there are
no network issues, and provide the right credentials during a firmware update.
Failure to delete a custom update group
After scheduling a job on a server belonging to a custom update group, if the server is deleted from
SCVMM and synchronization is done, the server is removed from the custom update group and is moved
to the appropriate predefined group. You cannot delete such custom update groups, because it is
associated with a scheduled job.
As a workaround, to delete this custom update group, delete the scheduled job from jobs page, and then
delete the custom update group.
Failure to export server profiles
After scheduling an export server profile job, the server profile is not exported, and the following error
message is displayed: “The selectors for the resource are not valid”.
As a workaround, reset iDRAC, and then schedule the export server profile job. For more information, see
iDRAC documentation available at dell.com/support.
Firmware update on a few components irrespective of the
selection
Same components on identical servers get updated during a firmware update irrespective of the selection
of components made on individual servers. This behavior is seen for 12th and 13th generation of Dell
PowerEdge servers with Enterprise license of iDRAC.
As a workaround, do one of the following:
• To prevent irrelevant updates on identical servers, apply common components on identical servers
and then apply specific components separately on individual servers.
• Perform staged updates with planned outage times to accommodate the required firmware update.
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