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
2. In Discover, select the required option:
● Discover Using an IP Address
● Discover Using an IP Range
3. Select the required device type credential profile, or click Create New to create a credential profile.
4. In Discover Using an IP Address or IP Address Range, do any of the following:
● If you selected Discover Using an IP Address, then provide the IP address of the server you want to discover.
● If you selected Discover Using an IP Range, then provide the IP address range you want to include and if you must
exclude an IP address range, select Enable Exclude Range and provide the range that you want to exclude.
5. Provide an unique job name, and click Finish.
6. (Optional) Select Go to the Job List option, to track this job.
The Jobs and Logs Center page is displayed. In Running tab expand the discovery job to view the progress of this job.
Deleting servers from DLCI Console
You can delete the unassigned servers and host servers based on the following criteria:
● You can delete an unassigned server that is listed in the appliance.
● If a host server is provisioned in SCVMM and present in the appliance, first delete the server in SCVMM and then delete the
server from the appliance.
In DLCI Console:
● To delete unassigned servers — in Unassigned Servers, select the server and click Delete and in the confirmation
message click Yes.
● To delete host servers — in Host Servers, select the server and click Delete and in the confirmation message, click Yes.
Viewing device inventory
The Device Inventory page lists unassigned servers and host servers. Using the host name or IP address of the server, you can
view the server details such as compliance status, firmware versions and so on.
From the device inventory page, you can do the following:
● Discovering servers
● Refresh server information
● Deleting servers from DLCI Console
● Synchronizing with SCVMM
● Resolving synchronization errors
● Correlate host servers to cluster group and the chassis to which the server belongs to
● Launching iDRAC Console
If the unassigned server is a modular server, then the chassis service tag is added in the inventory details for the chassis
containing the modular server.
If the host server is a part of a cluster, to correlate a server to its cluster group and to know the chassis information, see cluster
FQDN and chassis service tag.
To work with the servers discovered in the prior versions of the appliance, rediscover the servers.
To view servers:
In DLCI Console, click Device Inventory.
Server discovery
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