Release Notes
Software Requirements
• Supported operating system and web browser.
• TCP/IP connection on the managed system and the remote system to facilitate remote system management.
• Supported systems management protocol standard. For more information, see Supported Systems Management Protocol Standards.
• The Server Administrator Remote Access Controller service requires remote access controller (RAC) to be installed on the managed
system. For more information on the software and hardware requirements, see the relevant Remote Access Controller User’s Guide.
NOTE: The RAC software is installed as part of the Typical Setup installation option provided the managed system
meets all of the RAC installation prerequisites.
• The Server Administrator Storage Management Service requires Server Administrator to be installed on the managed system. For
more information on the software and hardware requirements, see the Server Administrator Storage Management User’s Guide.
• Microsoft Software Installer (MSI) version 3.1 or later.
NOTE: Server Administrator software detects the MSI version on your system. If the version is earlier than 3.1, the
prerequisite checker prompts you to upgrade to MSI version 3.1. After upgrading the MSI to version 3.1, you may have
to reboot the system to install other software applications such as Microsoft SQL Server.
What’s New
The release highlights of Server Administrator are:
• Support for PowerEdge R830
• Support for the following operating systems:
○ Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 Service Pack 1
○ VMware ESXi 5.5 Update 3
○ VMware ESXi 6.0 Update 1 and Update 2
○ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2
○
NOTE:
Citrix XenServer operating system support has been dropped for both Server Administrator and Storage
Management.
• Support for the following web browsers:
○ Google Chrome version 45
○ Mozilla Firefox version 40
• Support for the following features:
○ GP-GPU card enablement and thermal status on PowerEdge C4130
○ SNMP Test Trap Button feature on all Windows and Linux Operating Server. Note:
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
.
Fixes
The following issues were reported in earlier releases of Server Administrator and have been corrected in this release:
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