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 management
Using Maintenance Center, you can perform all the tasks related to managing Dell updates in the SCVMM environment. You
can maintain up-to-date firmware versions of Dell server components as per Dell recommendations.
You can view, create, and maintain protection vaults, update sources, custom groups, and view the predefined update groups.
You can create, and schedule jobs for firmware updates, and schedule notifications to receive alerts when new catalogs are
available at update source. A comparison report for the existing firmware version and the baseline version is provided, based on
this information, you can create an inventory file, import and export server profiles. Also you can filter the information on the
type of updates, server components, and server models.
You can perform updates only on compliant servers because iDRAC updates are available only for minimum compliant version
and later.
NOTE: After upgrading to the latest version of DLCI for SCVMM version, if the connection to ftp.dell.com or
downloads.dell.com fails, the default Dell online FTP, or Dell HTTP update source cannot download the catalog file,
and hence the comparison report is not available. To view a comparison report, edit the default Dell online FTP, or Dell
HTTP update source, create proxy credentials, and then select the same from the Select Update Source drop-down
menu. For more information on editing an update source, see Modifying update source.
DLCI for SCVMM provides the following update actions:
● Downgrade — there is an earlier version available at update source and you can downgrade the firmware to this version.
● No Action Required — the firmware version is at the same level as the one in the repository.
● No Update Available — no firmware updates are available for the component.
● Upgrade - Optional — updates consist of new features or any specific configuration upgrades that are optional.
● Upgrade - Urgent — critical updates used for resolving security, performance, or break-fix situations in components such as
BIOS, and so on are available.
● Upgrade - Recommended — updates carry bug fixes or any feature enhancements in the product. Also, compatibility fixes
with other firmware updates are included.
DLCI for SCVMM provides the following methods to perform firmware updates:
● Update using DRM repository — export the inventory information of the discovered servers from appliance to prepare a
repository in DRM. For information on exporting the inventory information, see Exporting inventory.
○ After creating the repository in DRM, select the relevant servers and initiate an update on the servers. Consider other
factors such as testing on test environment, security updates, application recommendations, Dell advisories, and so on,
to prepare the required updates. For more information on creating a repository, see Dell Repository Manager documents
available at dell.com/support/home.
● Update using FTP or HTTP — update any specific component to the latest update provided on the FTP or HTTP site. Dell
IT prepares a repository at quarterly cadence.
○ Integration with Dell Online Catalog — connect to Dell FTP and download the catalog file in the cache directory in case
of FTP update source, or connect to downloads.dell.com in case of HTTP update source, and then make it as a
reference inventory.
○ View the comparison report against the update source, select the relevant servers or server components, and then
initiate an update on the servers.
● Referencing firmware inventory and comparison — create a reference inventory file that contains the firmware
inventory of the selected servers or groups of servers. Later, you can compare the inventory information of servers
present in the appliance against the saved reference inventory file. Note that the reference server inventory file can contain
inventory information from a single server of same type or model, or can have multiple servers of different types or models.
Topics:
• Integration with DRM
• Filters
• Update source overview
• Update groups
• Applying updates on servers
• Polling and notification
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