Release Notes

Importance

OPTIONAL: Dell recommends the customer to review specifics about the software update to determine if it applies to your system. The

update contains changes that impact certain configurations, or provides new features that may/may not apply to your environment.

Platform(s) Affected

11th, 12th, and 13th generation of Rack and Modular Dell PowerEdge servers.

What’s New

With DLCI 1.3 for SCVMM, you can do the following:

• Deploy Windows Server 2016 —support for deploying Windows Server 2016.

• Support for SCVMM 2016.

• Export inventory in CSV format — after comparing the servers inventories against the update source you can export the inventory

information in CSV format.

• Part replacement — restore the firmware version, or configuration, or both on the new server component.

• Collect and View LC log messages— export, view, download to CSV, and search the LC log messages.

• Jobs and activity logs — improved presentation of activity logs and jobs page for better user experience.

• 64–bit Dell Update Packages (DUPs) — support for firmware version update using 64–bit DUPs.

Fixes

Bug 65763: PT-CP- Deletion of proxy CP which is associated with a http update source is logging wrong activity log.

Important Notes

Firmware update job is not supported through Microsoft CAU feature in DLCI for SCVMM for servers belonging to cluster groups present

or discovered in Windows Server 2008.

Known Issues and resolutions

42439: When you want to create a hardware profile using a reference server that was deployed by DLCI for SCVMM, you may see empty

set of disks or the message “Unable to get RAID topology.” The reason for this is that the iDRAC system inventory is not updated.

Workaround: (Do this action only once.) Reset iDRAC in the reference server and then recreate the hardware profile.

Versions Affected: 11th and 12th generation of Dell PowerEdge servers.

38365: When an add-in is imported into the SCVMM console, the console may crash.

Workaround: See issue 5 in this knowledge base URL: support.microsoft.com/kb/2785682 . Do this update irrespective of the

version of the update rollup that is installed.

Versions Affected:

• SC2012 VMM 2012 R2 Admin Console

• SC2012 VMM 2012 SP1 Admin Console

32421: Few read-only attributes of a target server are not set as read only in hardware profile.

Workaround: Edit only the applicable BIOS attributes. For more information, see the reference server's BIOS settings.

Versions Affected: 11th generation of Dell PowerEdge servers.

47941: Replicating a Hardware configuration containing RAID-0 will fail systems with S130 controller.

Workaround: The workflow will automatically create a custom RAID configuration (RAID-1) on the selected target system.

Versions Affected:

• 13th generation of Dell PowerEdge servers with S130 controller

• SC2012 VMM 2012 Admin Console R2

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