Release Notes

• Support for the following network cards:
o Emulex LightPulse LPe15000B-M8-D 1-Port 8G Gen 5 Fibre Channel Adapter
o Emulex LightPulse LPe15002B-M8-D 2-Port 8G Gen 5 Fibre Channel Adapter
o Emulex LightPulse LPm15002B-D 2-Port 8G Gen 5 Fibre Channel Adapter
o Emulex OneConnect OCe14102B-U1-D 2-port PCIe 10GbE CNA
o Emulex OneConnect OCm14104B-U1-D 4-port 10GbE rNDC CNA
o Emulex OneConnect OCm14102B-U4-D 2-port 10GbE bNDC CNA
o Emulex OneConnect OCm14102B-U5-D 2-port 10GbE Mezz CNA
o Emulex OneConnect OCe14102B-N1-D 2-port PCIe 10GbE NIC
o Emulex OneConnect OCm14104B-N1-D 4-port 10GbE rNDC NIC
o Emulex OneConnect OCm14102B-N5-D 2-port 10GbE Mezz NIC
o Emulex OneConnect OCm14102B-N6-D 2-port 10GbE bNDC NIC
o Mellanox ConnectX-3 Pro Dual Port 10 GbE SFP+ PCIE Adapter
o Mellanox ConnectX-3 Pro Dual Port 40 GbE QSFP+ Adapter
o Mellanox ConnectX-3 Pro Dual Port 10 GbE KR Mezzanine Adapter
• For 13th generation of PowerEdge servers, support for:
o 3.5-inch 4KB SATA drives on PERC 9 Controller
• Added new functionalities in Storage Management:
o Support to configure physical disks into Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) 0
virtual disks
o Support for setting the Remaining Rated Write Endurance Threshold for PCIe SSDs, SAS
SSDs, and SATA SSDs
o Support for RAID 10 virtual disk online capacity expansion
NOTE: For the list of supported operating systems and Dell servers, see the Dell Systems
Software Support Matrix in the required version of OpenManage Software at
dell.com/openmanagemanuals.
NOTE: For more information about the features introduced in this release, see the Server
Administrator context-sensitive online Help.
Fixes
The following problems were reported in earlier releases of Server Administrator and have
been corrected in this release:
• BITS194072: EEMI message format selecting "No" will give EEMI message format
option again
• BITS194403: SLES12 failed to start OMservice when non interactive installation with
no auto-start of service
• BITS195399: After applying OM8.1 DUP, reboot required displayed
• BITS199500: BcomNXII Qlogic some of the network attributes wont be displayed
• BITS199869: Custom install of Storage rpms throws dependency error
• BITS210964: Can not launch OMSA from discovered W2K12R2 Hyper-V host server in
OME
• BITS217683: WMI CIM_PhysicalMemory class does not have data populated for Serial
Number, Manufacturer fields