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Contents 1 About Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager.............................................................................................................. 5 2 Components of DLCI for SCVMM................................................................................... 6 Users — roles and privileges..............................................................................................................................................
Error message while accessing admin portal through Mozilla Firefox browser................................................................. 20 Failure to connect to server............................................................................................................................................. 20 SC2016 VMM console crash while importing DLCI for SCVMM console addin................................................................
1 About Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration (DLCI) for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) enables hardware configuration, provides a solution to simplify and improve the process of firmware updates, and Hyper-V deployment on Dell servers. Also, you can export a server profile and import the same server profile for similar groups of servers if the server image is corrupt.
2 Components of DLCI for SCVMM The components of DLCI for SCVMM are as follows: • Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration (DLCI) for System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), also known as Appliance: – Is hosted on a Hyper-V as a virtual machine based on CentOS. – Interacts with Dell servers through iDRAC by using Web Services-Management (WSMan) commands. – Enables you to administer the appliance through the admin portal.
Role DLCI Appliance Administrator Capabilities (has access to create, view, edit and delete the listed aspects, unless explicitly stated) • DLCI Appliance • • • • • • • Setup and Configuration Service pack update Jobs and logs Download Integration Gateway Download Console Add-in License Details All features of DLCI appliance users Integration Gateway Account (No visible features) Ports used in appliance These ports are used by various components of the Appliance.
3 Installing appliance To install appliance: 1. Check and review system requirements, for more information see System Requirements for Management Systems. 2. Download appliance, for more information, see Downloading Appliance. 3. Set up appliance, for more information, see Setting up Appliance. System requirements for management systems Management systems are the systems on which the appliance and its components are installed.
* System requirements specific for SC2016 VMM UR1 Console: • Windows ADK 10 is installed. – Consider your organization’s PowerShell execution policy guidelines and ensure that the effective execution policy is set for the local machine as RemoteSigned and for the Integration Gateway Service account as Unrestricted. For information on policy settings, refer the following MSDN articles: * PowerShell Execution Policy: technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh847748.aspx * PowerShell Group Policy: technet.
NOTE: A minimum of 4096 MB is required. f. In Configure Networking, in Connection select the network that you want to use, and then click Next. g. In Connect Virtual Hard Disk, select Use an existing virtual hard disk, traverse to the location where the DLCI_VMM_Appliance VHD file is present, and select the file. h. In Summary, confirm the details that you have provided and click Finish. i. Set Number of virtual processors count value to 2. By default, the processor count is set to 1.
By logging in to admin portal, you can download the components of IG and console add-in. NOTE: If you are accessing the admin portal for the first time, then when you log in to admin portal, theIf you are accessing the admin portal for the first time, the Setup and Configuration wizard will be displayed after log in. c. In Setup and Configuration, in Welcome, click Next. d. In Download and Install, do the following and click Next: 6. 1.
– To log in to the appliance as a read-only user; enter user name as readonly and the appliance admin password. • Log in to the IG server and ping the appliance and SCVMM server. • Log in to the SCVMM server and ping the appliance and IG server. If there is no response for the ping: • Ensure that the firewall is not blocking the communication. • Check the DNS server IP is configured in DNS configuration of the appliance • Entry of the appliance is made in the DNS server. b.
To import the console add-in: a. Launch the VMM console using Administrator or Delegated Admin. b. Click Settings and then click Import Console Add-in. The Import Console Add-in Wizard is displayed. c. Click Browse and select the zip file of the console add-in, click Next, and then click Finish. Make sure the add-in is valid. d. Click Fabric in the left pane and then click DLCI Console in the ribbon. e. Add the admin portal URL in the trusted site and launch the console add-in.
4 Upgrading DLCI for SCVMM After you install and setup DLCI for SCVMM, if a service pack update is available for DLCI for SCVMM, then by using the Service Pack Update feature of SCVMM you can install the service pack update. NOTE: If you are using an online FTP account, edit and add the proxy details for the default update source and save it.
• • • • .RPM .XML .TXT .BZ2 To enable .BZ2 file format: 1. Open the IIS Manager on the server where the repo files are saved. 2. Expand the host name. Click Sites and then Default Web Site. 3. In Action pane click Add. The Add MIME Type window is displayed. 4. Provide the File name extension as .BZ2 and MIME type as APP/BZ2 and click OK. To prepare a repository: 1. Place the service packs files directly in the HTTP server. 2.
• Upgrade the console add-in. Upgrading IG To upgrade IG: Prerequisites: Make sure the shared folder created has a minimum disk space of 10 GB. NOTE: The installation continues with a warning message even if there is no disk space of 10 GB space. However operating system deployment, and firmware update may fail. 1. From the Admin portal, download the IG installer. 2. Run the DLCI Integration Gateway for SCVMM installer. 3. In the message prompting you to upgrade, click Yes. 4.
5 Uninstalling appliance To uninstall appliance: 1. Remove IG. For more information, see Removing IG. 2. Remove console add-in. For more information, see Removing console add-in. 3. Remove appliance. For more information, see Removing appliance. 4. Remove appliance-specific accounts. For more information, see Other uninstallation tasks NOTE: Dependency on Dell Connections License Manager (DCLM) has been removed. Hence to uninstall DCLM, see Dell Connections License Manager Installation Guide.
Other uninstallation steps Includes: Deleting Appliance specific RunAsAccounts and Deleting DLCI Application Profile Deleting appliance-specific RunAsAccounts To delete the appliance-specific RunAsAccounts from the SCVMM console. 1. In the SCVMM console, click Settings. 2. Click Run As Accounts. 3. From the list of accounts, delete appliance-specific accounts. The appliance-specific accounts are prefixed as Dell_.
6 Troubleshooting Account deletion in SCVMM SCVMM creates an account for the appliance with the name DLCI-VMM Addin Registration Profile. If this profile is deleted, then you cannot work with the appliance. Recommend you to not delete the account. However, reinstall the appliance if the account is deleted. Compatibility issue of appliance with ADK Any existing functionality of DLCI for SCVMM may fail after installing a software with an incompatible version of ADK.
1. Delete the folder at default path: C:\Program Files\Microsoft System Center 2012 R2\Virtual Machine Manager\Bin \AddInPipeline\AddIns\. 2. Close and then open SCVMM. 3. Uninstall and then reimport the Console Add-in as mentioned in Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager Installation Guide.
Failure to launch DLCI for SCVMM admin portal and DLCI for SCVMM console addin on Windows 2012 OS Launching the admin portal on Internet Explorer (IE) version 10 and launching the console from SCVMM on a Windows Server 2012 OS fails when TLS 1.2 is enabled. As a workaround, install the latest IE security update and then launch the admin portal on Internet Explorer (IE) version 10 and console from SCVMM. For more information, see dell.com/support/article/us/en/19/SLN302365.
• Verify that SCVMM user is a part of SCVMM server administrator or delegated admin in user roles of SCVMM. • Make sure that the SCVMM server is not registered with any other appliance. If you want to register the same SCVMM server with the appliance, then delete the DLCI-VMM Add in Registration Profile application profile of SCVMM server. For more information on uninstalling the Appliance, see Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration for System Center Virtual Machine Manager Installation Guide.
7 Accessing documents from Dell support site You can access the required documents in one of the following ways: • Using the following links: – For all Enterprise Systems Management documents — Dell.com/SoftwareSecurityManuals – For OpenManage documents — Dell.com/OpenManageManuals – For Remote Enterprise Systems Management documents — Dell.com/esmmanuals – For iDRAC and Lifecycle Controller documents — Dell.com/idracmanuals – For OpenManage Connections Enterprise Systems Management documents — Dell.
