Users Guide

Contents
1 Introduction........................................................................................................... 7
Why use Lifecycle Controller?.............................................................................................................. 7
Benefits of using iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller...............................................................................8
What's new in this release?................................................................................................................... 8
Key features........................................................................................................................................... 9
Feature matrix..................................................................................................................................9
Licensable features in Lifecycle Controller.........................................................................................11
Viewing iDRAC license information....................................................................................................12
Other documents you may need........................................................................................................12
Social Media Reference................................................................................................................. 13
Accessing documents from Dell support site.................................................................................... 13
Contacting Dell....................................................................................................................................14
2 Using Lifecycle Controller.................................................................................15
Starting Lifecycle Controller................................................................................................................15
Start messages during POST, causes, and resolutions.................................................................15
Enabling Lifecycle Controller........................................................................................................16
Disabling Lifecycle Controller.......................................................................................................16
Canceling Lifecycle Controller actions.........................................................................................17
Using Lifecycle Controller for the first time....................................................................................... 17
Setting up Lifecycle Controller using Initial Setup Wizard........................................................... 17
Setting up Lifecycle Controller from the home page.................................................................. 19
Lifecycle Controller features.............................................................................................................. 20
3 Operating system deployment.........................................................................22
Installing an operating system............................................................................................................22
Using the optional RAID configuration.............................................................................................. 24
Configuring RAID using the operating system deployment wizard..................................................24
Unattended installation.......................................................................................................................24
UEFI Secure Boot................................................................................................................................ 25
Driver access....................................................................................................................................... 25
Installing an operating system on iSCSI LUN and FCoE LUN............................................................26
Post reboot scenarios......................................................................................................................... 26
4 Monitor.................................................................................................................27
Hardware inventory view and export................................................................................................. 27
About view and export current inventory.......................................................................................... 27
About view and export factory-shipped inventory............................................................................ 27
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