Release Notes

NOTE: This feature is not available on any VMware vSphere operating system versions.
• Added new functionalities in Storage Management:
– Support for 2.5-inch 4KB SATA drives on PERC 9 family of hardware controllers.
– Support for rear SATA on PowerEdge R730xd connected to software RAID S130 controller.
– Support for PMC SAS Expander on PowerEdge R730.
– Support for Samsung PM1725 NVMe device.
– Support for flexible backplane zoning functionality on backplanes with 24 slots — PowerEdge R630 and PowerEdge
R730xd.
– Support for setting Disk Cache Policy at physical disk and virtual disk level on software RAID S130 controller.
– Support for setting non-RAID disk cache policy on PERC 9 controllers.
– Support for HBA H330 Adapter/Mini controller.
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.
For more information about the features introduced in this release, see the Server Administrator context-sensitive online Help.
Important Notes
Notes for Server Administrator
On 12th generation or later PowerEdge server with iDRAC7 1.30.30 and later versions, you can set the Platform Event Destination
as IPv4, IPv6, or FQDN.
Notes for Instrumentation Service
• On 11th generation or later PowerEdge server, if conflicting BIOS settings exist while configuring BIOS setup options through
Server Administrator, the update attempt may fail at system reboot and none of the BIOS setup options may be updated.
• For example, when you configure Embedded SATA Controller to RAID and Boot Mode to UEFI simultaneously (UEFI does not
support RAID option), the conflict prevents the BIOS configuration updates (at system reboot).
• On certain systems, user-defined thresholds set under Server Administrator become the default thresholds after uninstalling
Server Administrator.
• If you change the threshold value of a probe on certain systems, running Server Administrator, and then uninstall Server
Administrator, the changed threshold value becomes the default threshold value.
• While modifying the warning threshold settings, the values are stored in the firmware as discrete integer values and scaled for
display. If the modified value is not a discrete integer, it may change when saved.
• Fan redundancy can have the following states:
– Fully Redundant — The sensors display this status if all the fans in the system are present and are in a non-failed state.
– Redundancy Lost — The sensors display this status whenever any system fan fails or is removed from the chassis.
• If a system with memory redundancy enabled enters a redundancy lost state, it may not be clear which memory module caused
it. If you cannot determine which DIMM to replace, see the switch to spare memory detected log entry in the ESM system log
to find the memory module that failed.
• If you run Server Administrator when the system is in OS Install Mode, it may report the memory incorrectly. To avoid this issue,
you must disable OS Install Mode before running the application.
• If you have to uninstall and reinstall the operating system SNMP service, then reinstall Server Administrator, so that the Server
Administrator SNMP agents are registered with the operating system SNMP agent.
• Server Administrator Device Drivers for Linux: Server Administrator includes two device drivers for Linux: Systems -
Management Base Driver (dcdbas) and BIOS Update Driver (dell_rbu).
• Server Administrator uses these drivers to perform the systems management functions. Depending on the system, the
application loads one or both of these drivers. These drivers have been released as open source under the GNU General Public
License v2.0. They are available in Linux kernels from kernel.org starting with kernel 2.6.14.
• CMC USB ports attached to a blade are not enumerated by Server Administrator.
• Except for AC power cord traps, SNMP traps for server instrumentation are not generated when the state of the device sensor
changes from unknown to normal. While migrating the chassis of a PowerEdge M520, M620, or M820 server running Windows
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