Setup Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration Version 1.3 for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager Installation Guide
- Contents
- About Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager
- Components of DLCI for SCVMM
- Installing appliance
- Upgrading DLCI for SCVMM
- Uninstalling appliance
- Troubleshooting
- Account deletion in SCVMM
- Compatibility issue of appliance with ADK
- Connection lost between appliance and Integration Gateway
- DLCI for SCVMM admin portal not accessible
- Error accessing plugin after updating SCVMM R2
- Error accessing the appliance after changing network configuration
- Error in input during setup and configuration
- Error message while accessing admin portal through Mozilla Firefox browser
- Failure to connect to server
- SC2016 VMM console crash while importing DLCI for SCVMM console addin
- Failure to launch DLCI for SCVMM admin portal and DLCI for SCVMM console addin on Windows 2012 OS
- IP address not assigned to the appliance
- No required permission to access SCVMM
- SCVMM error 21119 while adding servers to active directory
- SCVMM registration failure
- Accessing support content from the Dell EMC support site
Components of DLCI for SCVMM
The components of DLCI for SCVMM are as follows:
● Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration (DLCI) for System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), also known as Appliance:
○ Is hosted on a Hyper-V as a virtual machine based on CentOS.
○ Interacts with Dell servers through iDRAC by using Web Services-Management (WSMan) commands.
○ Enables you to administer the appliance through the admin portal.
○ Enables you to view all jobs, activity logs from all users and license information
● DLCI Integration Gateway for SCVMM, also known as Integration Gateway (IG) is a set of web services installed on a
Windows server, which runs SCVMM Powershell commands and WinPE Customization for Appliance.
● DLCI Console Add-in for SCVMM, also known as DLCI Console Add-in enables you to perform appliance-based tasks such as
discovery, profile creation, operating system deployment with or without LC driver injection, and firmware updates.
The following figure shows DLCI appliance setup with components and other software.
Topics:
• Users — roles and privileges
• Ports used in appliance
Users — roles and privileges
These users are required by various DLCI appliance components and other software.
Table 1. : Roles and privileges
Role DLCI Appliance Administrator Integration Gateway Account
Characteristics Appliance-specific user (admin) This account is as follows:
● Valid <domain> user.
● Local administrator rights to access
the Integration Gateway server
● Has VMM Administrator Privileges
DLCI Appliance Components Access
● Admin portal
● DLCI Appliance
Integration Gateway
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6 Components of DLCI for SCVMM