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
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About Dell Lifecycle Controller
Integration for Microsoft System Center
2012 Virtual Machine Manager
Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration (DLCI) for Microsoft System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager
(SC2012 VMM) enables hardware configuration, provides a solution to simplify and improve the process
of firmware updates, and hypervisor deployment on Dell servers. This plug-in uses the remote
deployment feature of the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) with Lifecycle Controller
(LC), providing a seamless user experience. You can leverage Dell’s value additions through Microsoft
System Center Consoles to manage virtualized environments.
For information about Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager, see Microsoft documentation.
What’s new in this release
The features for this release are as follows:
• Update sources — support for Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) type of update source.
• Test connection — validating the location of update source and the credentials before creating the
update source.
• Update groups — group the servers for creating, managing, and performing firmware updates on
custom update groups.
• Polling and notifications — configure notifications to receive alerts when new catalogs are available in
update source.
• Protection vaults — location to save system configuration profiles.
• Export server profiles — including firmware images on components such as Basic Input Output
System (BIOS), Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID), Network Interface Controller (NIC),
integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC), LC, and so on, to an internal or external location.
• Import server profiles — either retaining or excluding the current RAID settings for the same server or
server groups when the existing server profile is corrupt.
• Filters — are used to display information based on the criteria selected in the Maintenance Center.
• Allow Downgrade — if enabled, allows you to downgrade the firmware version to an earlier version.
• Cluster-Aware Updating (CAU) — automates the software updating process by using the features of
Microsoft on cluster update groups while maintaining the server’s availability.
• Integration with Dell Repository Manager (DRM) — providing the server inventory information of the
existing servers from the appliance to DRM.
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