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
Server discovery
You can do out-of-band discovery of unassigned Dell servers and import information about Dell servers into the appliance.
You can discover Hyper-V hosts and modular Hyper-V hosts along with unassigned servers. After discovery, the servers
are added to respective predefined update groups. For more information on classification of server groups, see Server
management .
Server discovery notes:
● When you discover a Dell PowerEdge server with an operating system and already present in SCCM or SCVMM, then the
server is listed as a host server and marked as compliant or non-compliant.
○ A host server is compliant when it contains minimum versions of LC firmware, iDRAC, and BIOS that are required to work
with the appliance.
○ If the host is a modular server, then the service tag of the chassis containing the server is also displayed.
○ If the host is part of a cluster, then the Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) of the cluster is displayed.
● When you discover a Dell PowerEdge server that is not listed in SCCM or SCVMM, then the server is listed as an unassigned
server and marked as compliant or noncompliant based on their versions of LC firmware, iDRAC, and BIOS.
● If you provide incorrect credential details, then based on the iDRAC version, the following resolutions are available:
○ While discovering a 12th generation Dell PowerEdge server with iDRAC version 2.10.10.10 and later, if incorrect details are
provided in the credential profile, the server discovery fails, with the following behavior:
￭ For first attempt, server IP address is not blocked.
￭ For second attempt, server IP address is blocked for 30 seconds.
￭ For third and subsequent attempts, server IP address is blocked for 60 seconds.
You can reattempt server discovery with correct credential profile details once the IP address is unblocked.
○ While discovering an 11th or 12th generation PowerEdge server with iDRAC versions prior to 2.10.10.10, if server
discovery attempts fail due to incorrect credential profile details, then rediscover the server with the correct credential
profile details.
○ For iDRAC versions prior to 2.10.10.10, blocking of IP addresses is configurable. For more information, see iDRAC
documentation at Dell.com/idracmanuals. Based on your requirement, you can also disable blocking of IP addresses.
And you can also check if the iDRAC.IPBlocking.BlockEnable feature is enabled in iDRAC.
○ If the default iDRAC credential profile is changed after a server is discovered and added in the appliance, then no activity
can be performed on the server. To work with the server, rediscover the server with the new credential profile.
You can also discover Dell servers using the following options:
● Auto discovery of servers.
● Manual discovery based on IP addresses.
Topics:
• 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
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