Release Notes

• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Foundation, Essentials, Standard, and Datacenter editions
• Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Essentials, Standard, and Datacenter editions
What’s New
The new features for this release include:
• Support for the following network cards:
• Qlogic Arrowhead QL41164 (PCIe FH)
• Qlogic Arrowhead QL41164 (PCIe LP)
• Added support for the following Dell PowerEdge servers:
• PowerEdge R940xa
• PowerEdge R840
NOTE: For the list of supported operating systems and Dell servers, see the Dell Systems Software Support Matrix at
dell.com/openmanagemanuals.
Important Notes
This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.openssl.org/).
DTK operating system deployment limitation:
DTK does not support operating system deployment, when multiple boot VDs exist on a single controller or when the server has multiple
boot controllers. If multiple boot controllers exist on the server, the boot VD must be created on any one of the controllers, and the boot
VD must be set as first boot device in system BIOS.
On debranded or rebranded servers, Deployment toolkit is not supported.
NOTE:
During booting WInPE ISO image for Windows PE 5.1 and Windows PE 10.0 user will not be prompted for entering any
key to continue.
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.
• It is required to perform a warm reboot after applying the SYSCFG settings changes on Dell PowerEdge 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 <space>,
"<," ">," "|," "=" 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=<userid> --action=disable command.
• The legacy attribute values enable and disable are also supported for 12G systems for backward compatibility. In future releases these
arguments might be deprecated. Try to use the values displayed in help message for BIOS options for 12G server.
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.
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