Release Notes

SYSCFG
● Some options may not be present on all systems, which may be due to the BIOS version or hardware feature set. The usage
information generated by running SYSCFG without arguments shows only those options that are valid for your system.
● The --devseq option is present only if you have an available, bootable hard-disk partition. If this option is present in the
configuration file, but not present on your system, you will receive a usage error.
● To enable certain options, to reboot your system. Dell recommends you use the "reboot" command on shell prompt or press
the Ctrl+Alt+Del keys.
● It is required to perform a warm reboot after applying the SYSCFG settings changes on Dell’s 12th generation of PowerEdge
systems.
● If you perform operations that change the --redmem option, reboot your system immediately. It is applicable to both
command line and --infile usage.
NOTE: Additionally, the --redmem option should not be issued with any other command and should be immediately
followed by a system reboot. This is important when you develop scripts that can alter the --redmem setting.
● For options that use text strings such as username, password, hostname, and community string, using characters such as
"<," ">," "|," "=" on the command line can be misinterpreted by the command line parser and may cause errors. To avoid such
errors, use only alphanumeric characters.
● If you set the username using SYSCFG username option, Serial Over Lan (SOL) access for the corresponding user will be
enabled by default. You can disable SOL access for a user using syscfg solaction --userid=--action=disable
command.
RAIDCFG
● When creating virtual disks, the chunk (stripe) size is always in KBs. Do not specify any units of measure for the chunk size.
● When providing multiple physical disks for the "create virtual disk" command, do not separate the disks with spaces.
For example, "-ad=1:4, 1:5" causes an error. The correct way to input multiple physical disks is "-ad=1:4,1:5,1:6" or "-
ad=1:4:0,1:5:0,1:6:0".
● If you change the controller mode from SCSI to RAID mode, data loss may occur. Back up any data you require before
changing the modes.
● RAIDCFG operations can not be performed on HBA330 and AHCI non-raid mode.
● On Software RAID Controller, NVMe PCIe-SSD add-on card is not supported.
● Lockdown Mode enabled will not impact with Raidcfg functionality.
Known Issues
Network limitation:
On spanning tree-enabled network, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x operating system installation
on Dell Power Edge systems might not be successful due to DHCP client time-out.
Workaround: Add netwait=90 in the boot loader option of the suseinst.sh/ lininst7.shscript.
For example, suseinst.sh, kernel/linux/linux autoyast=$DT_SUSE_AUTOINST install=$DT_OS_IMG_PATH
netwait=90
lininst7.sh, kernel /linux/vmlinuz ks=hd:sda$(($GRUB_PART_NO + 1)):/linux/ks.cfg
inst.repo=nfs:${DT_OS_NFS_LOC} netwait=90
On Debranded/Rebrand servers, Deployment toolkit is not supported.
SYSCFG Issues
● In DRAC , the --virtualmedia and --vflash options do not work if there is an active virtual media session. Disconnect the
virtual media using the DRAC GUI. Log into DRAC. Click Media > Virtual Media > Disconnect.
● The syscfg --bootseq command detects CD-ROM with SAS/SATA controllers as unk.emb.1.
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