Users Guide

• Network Share:

– Permissions and firewall settings are provided for the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller to

communicate with the system that has the network share.

– With a minimum free space of 384 MB available.

• Administrator privileges on the iDRAC of the target systems.

Before you begin

Before you begin exporting the system profile for a single system or a collection:

• Make sure that operations such as firmware update, operating system deployment, and firmware

configurations are not running.

• After you deploy the operating system using Lifecycle controller, the Original Equipment

Manufacturer Drive (OEMDRV) is open for 18 hours as the Lifecycle Controller does not have the

status of the operating system installation. If you need to perform the operations such as update,

configuration, or restore after you deploy the operating system, remove the OEMDRV partition. To

remove the partition, reset Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller or cancel System Services.

For more information on resetting iDRAC or cancelling system services, see the Dell Lifecycle

Controller Remote Services User’s Guide available at dell.com/support/home.

• If you have scheduled the backup, then do not schedule any other remote services jobs such as BIOS

updates or RAID configuration on the target systems.

• Make sure that the backup image file is not tampered with, either during export or after export.

Workflow

1. To export the system profile of a single target system, launch the System Viewer utility. To export the

system profiles of a collection of systems, launch the Config Utility. For more information, see

System Viewer Utility or Configuration Utility.

2. Select the Platform Restore on the System Viewer utility or the Config Utility.

3. For a single system, see Exporting the System Profile.

4. For a collection, see Exporting the System Profiles in a Collection.

Importing server profile from iDRAC vFlash card or

network share

You can restore the backup of a system profile for a single system or a collection of systems from an

iDRAC vFlash card or a network share using DLCI for Configuration Manager.

Prerequisites

• Common Prerequisites.

• The service tag of the server is either blank or same as when the backup was taken.

• iDRAC vFlash card:

– Is installed as a license, enabled and has the SRVCNF partition. In Lifecycle Controller, during

backup, a partition with a label name SRVCNF is automatically created on the vFlash SD card to

store the backup image file. If a partition with the label name SRVCNF already exists, it is

overwritten. For more information, see Lifecycle Controller documentation at dell.com/support/

manuals.

– Has minimum free space of 384 MB available.