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Table 6. iDRAC and Lifecycle Controller for deployment

Generation Version

iDRAC Lifecycle Controller

PowerEdge 11th generation servers 3.35 for Modular, 1.85 for Rack or Tower 1.5.2 or later

PowerEdge 12th generation servers 1.00.0 or later 1.0.0.3017 or later

PowerEdge 13th generation servers 2.30.30.30 or later 2.30.30.30 or later

PowerEdge 14th generation servers 3.00.00.00 3.00.00.00

Table 7. BIOS and iDRAC requirements for cloud server

Model BIOS iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller

C6320 1.0.2 2.30.30.30 or later

C4130 1.0.2 2.30.30.30 or later

C6420 1.0.0 or later 3.00.00.00

Supported features on PowerEdge servers

The following features are supported on the hosts managed by OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter:

Table 8. Supported features on PowerEdge servers

Resource

Platform

11th 12th and 13th 14th

Hardware Inventory Y Y Y

Events and Alarms Y (SNMP v1 only) Y (SNMP v1 and v2) Y (SNMP v1 and v2)

Component wise Health Monitoring* Y Y Y

BIOS/Firmware Updates** Y Y Y

Proactive HA*** N Y Y

Warranty Information Y Y Y

Host Compliance Y Y Y

Auto/Manual discovery of bare-metal

server

Y Y Y

Bare-Metal compliance Y Y Y

Hardware Configuration Y Y Y

Bare-Metal Hypervisor Deployment Y Y Y

Blink Server LED Y Y Y

View/Clear SEL logs Y Y Y

Link and Launch iDRAC Y Y Y

iDRAC reset Y Y Y

System Lockdown Mode N N Y

System Profile N N Y

*In Cloud with model number C6320, health monitoring is not supported for the mezzanine cards.

**In Cloud with model number C6320, firmware updates are not supported for the mezzanine cards.

***Proactive HA feature is only applicable on vCenter 6.5 or later that has ESXi 6.0 or later.

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