White Papers

4 Standards-based NIC and FC-HBA management for Dell EMC PowerEdge servers
Executive summary
The growing scale of cloud- and web-based data center infrastructure is reshaping the requirements of IT
administrators world-wide. New approaches to Systems Management are required to keep up with the
growing and changing market.
The Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) Scalable Platforms Management Forum (SPMF) has
published Redfish, an open industry-standard specification and schema designed to meet the requirements of
IT administrators for simple, modern, and secure management of scalable platform hardware. Dell EMC is a
key contributor to the Redfish standard, acting as co-chair of the SPMF, promoting the benefits of Redfish,
and working to deliver those benefits within Dell EMC industry-leading systems management solutions.
Included in the Redfish 2016 standards are standardized APIs for the inventory and configuration of storage
devices.
This technical white paper provides an overview with scripting examples of the Redfish APIs for Network
Interface Card (NIC) and Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (FC-HBA) management for the12th, 13th, and 14th
generation of Dell EMC PowerEdge servers, delivered by the integrated Dell Remote Access Controller
(iDRAC) RESTful API.