Setup Guide

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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.
– Enables you to view all jobs, activity logs from all users and license information
• DLCI Integration Gateway for SCVMM, also known as Integration Gateway (IG) is a set of web services installed on a Windows
server, which runs SCVMM Powershell commands and WinPE Customization for Appliance.
• DLCI Console Add-in for SCVMM, also known as DLCI Console Add-in enables you to perform appliance-based tasks such as
discovery, profile creation, operating system deployment with or without LC driver injection, and firmware updates.
The following figure shows DLCI appliance setup with components and other software.
Users — roles and privileges
These users are required by various DLCI appliance components and other software.
Table 1. : Roles and privileges
Role DLCI Appliance Administrator Integration Gateway Account
Characteristics Appliance-specific user (admin) This account is as follows:
• Valid <domain> user.
• Local administrator rights to access
the Integration Gateway server
• Has VMM Administrator Privileges
DLCI Appliance Components Access
• Admin portal
Integration Gateway
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