Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration Version 1.3 for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager User’s Guide
- Contents
- About Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration for Microsoft System Center 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
- Creating, managing, and deleting protection vaults
- Exporting server profile
- Importing server profile
- Hypervisor deployment
- Deleting servers
- Configuring replaced components
- Collecting and viewing LC logs
- 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 SCVMM
- 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
- 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
- Failure applying RAID configuration
- Failure of creation of update source
- Failure of firmware update because of job queue being full
- Failure of firmware update while using DRM update source
- Failure of a scheduled job on an update group
- Failure of firmware update on cluster update group
- Failure of firmware update on 11th generation of servers
- 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 LC logs in CSV format
- Failure to view LC logs
- 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
- SCVMM error 21119 while adding servers to active directory
- 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 support content from the Dell EMC support site
Workflows
This section contains the following workflows:
● Creating golden configurations
●
Creating and managing credential profiles
● Creating and managing update sources
● Creating and managing custom update groups
● Applying updates on servers
● Deploying hypervisors
● Creating, managing and deleting protection vaults
● Exporting server profiles
●
Importing server profiles
● Deleting servers
● Configuring replaced components
● Collecting and viewing LC logs
Topics:
• 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
• Creating, managing, and deleting protection vaults
• Exporting server profile
• Importing server profile
• Hypervisor deployment
• Deleting servers
• Configuring replaced components
• Collecting and viewing LC logs
About golden configurations
A server configuration with the preferred Boot sequence, BIOS, and RAID settings ideally suited for the organization is referred
to as golden configuration. These settings are gathered in a hardware profile and deployed on identical servers during hypervisor
deployments.
Creating golden configurations
To prepare and use a golden configuration:
1. Ensure that the server with the ideal configuration is discovered and available. For more information on server discovery,
depending on the requirement, see Discovering servers using auto discovery or Discovering servers using manual discovery.
2. Ensure that the server’s inventory is up-to-date. For more information, see Viewing and refreshing firmware inventory.
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