Users Guide

Contents
1 Introduction..................................................................................................................... 7
Why use Lifecycle Controller?............................................................................................................................................ 7
Benefits of using iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller.............................................................................................................. 7
What's new in this release?................................................................................................................................................8
Key features.......................................................................................................................................................................8
Feature matrix..............................................................................................................................................................9
Licensable features in Lifecycle Controller........................................................................................................................ 10
Viewing iDRAC license information.................................................................................................................................... 11
Other documents you may need........................................................................................................................................11
Social Media Reference.............................................................................................................................................. 12
Accessing documents from Dell support site.................................................................................................................... 12
Contacting Dell................................................................................................................................................................. 12
2 Using Lifecycle Controller..............................................................................................14
Starting Lifecycle Controller..............................................................................................................................................14
Start messages during POST, causes, and resolutions................................................................................................14
Enabling Lifecycle Controller.......................................................................................................................................15
Disabling Lifecycle Controller...................................................................................................................................... 15
Canceling Lifecycle Controller actions.........................................................................................................................15
Using Lifecycle Controller for the first time.......................................................................................................................16
Setting up Lifecycle Controller using Initial Setup Wizard............................................................................................16
Setting up Lifecycle Controller from the home page...................................................................................................18
Lifecycle Controller features............................................................................................................................................. 19
3 Operating system deployment....................................................................................... 21
Installing an operating system........................................................................................................................................... 21
Using the optional RAID configuration..............................................................................................................................22
Configuring RAID using the operating system deployment wizard....................................................................................23
Unattended installation.....................................................................................................................................................23
UEFI Secure Boot.............................................................................................................................................................23
Driver access....................................................................................................................................................................24
Installing an operating system on iSCSI LUN and FCoE LUN............................................................................................24
Post reboot scenarios...................................................................................................................................................... 24
4 Monitor......................................................................................................................... 26
Hardware inventory view and export............................................................................................................................... 26
About view and export current inventory.........................................................................................................................26
About view and export factory-shipped inventory........................................................................................................... 26
Viewing hardware inventory — current or factory shipped..............................................................................................26
Exporting hardware inventory — current or factory shipped........................................................................................... 27
Exporting hardware inventory to a USB drive............................................................................................................ 28
Exporting hardware inventory to a network share......................................................................................................28
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