Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 8 (iDRAC8) and Lifecycle Controller for 13th Generation Dell PowerEdge Servers Version 2.05.05.
Release Notes Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 8 (iDRAC8) iDRAC8 is a systems management hardware and software solution that provides remote management capabilities, crashed system recovery, and power control functions for Dell PowerEdge systems. Lifecycle Controller (LC-GUI) An out-of-band mechanism for configuring the platform, applying firmware updates, saving or restoring a system backup, or deploying an operating system, either by using a GUI or a remote scripting language.
What is Supported? License Requirements • Software licensing has replaced hardware licensing. For more information, see the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 8 (iDRAC8) Version 2.00.00.00 User's Guide, available at dell.com/support/manuals. • Many features in Lifecycle Controller are licensed. You must install the appropriate license to use these features. For more information, see the Introduction section in the Lifecycle Controller Graphical User Interface Version 2.00.00.
Supported Web Browsers for iDRAC8 • Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 • Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 • Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 • Safari version 6.0 • Safari version 7.
• Virtual Console Viewer from iDRAC8 Web interface terminates when the managed system is restarted. • A pop-up message is not displayed to confirm if test emails are successfully sent or not. • For iDRAC8 Enterprise, when the Virtual Console is disabled and Virtual Media is disabled and/or detached, the console port (default: 5900) remains open. For iDRAC8 Express (no Virtual Console or Virtual Media) the console port is open.
• On a Linux system, after launching the Virtual Console, if you click on a menu item and it remains open, the Ctrl + Alt + L keystroke sent from the iDRAC to the host system does not lock the host system. The behavior is the same as using a local keyboard. • The default time zone value is US Central Time.
iDRAC8 - Known Issues Issue 1 Description In Chinese locale on Windows operating system, while launching the Virtual Console using Java plug-in, occasionally you may see a Java compilation error. Resolution 1. 2. 3. Open the Java control panel. Go to General -> Network Settings. Select Direct Connection and click OK. Versions/Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8.
Issue 5: Description Cannot set VNC password with quotes. Resolution Do not use double quotes for the VNC password. Versions/Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8. Issue 6: Description When you run the following command, it does not display the list of controllers when the host system is turned off. racadm storage get controller command Resolution Use the following command to view the list of controllers available in the system: racadm get storage.controller.
Resolution If the storage enclosure is disconnected accidentally, reconnect it to get back to normal state. If it is intentional, perform iDRAC8 reboot or server power cycle to remove the enclosure entries from the consoles. Versions/Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8 and out-of-band enabled PERC storage controllers.
Resolution On system with the CIFS share: 1. Start the Registry Editor (regedt32.exe). 2. Locate the following key in the Windows registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters 3. Add the following entries to the registry key 4. - DWORD key DisableStrictNameChecking - Add with value 1 (decimal) to enable file sharing. Reboot your computer for the changes to take effect. Versions/Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8.
Version/Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8. Issue 18: Description The Print option in iDRAC Web page does not work if you are using Internet Explorer for iDRAC Web interface. Resolution Use the Print option from the browser or use other supported browsers such as Firefox, Chrome, or MAC Safari. Version/Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge Systems with iDRAC8. Issue 19: Description Relevant status is not shown when a corrupt SD card is inserted.
• Physical Disks->Setup • Physical Disks->Identify • Controllers->Setup • Controllers->Troubleshooting • Virtual Disks->Create • Virtual Disks->Manage Resolution Use RACADM, WSMAN, or OpenManage Storage Management to perform storage configuration operations. Version/Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8.
Issue 25: Description If the PERC controllers have global hot spare assigned and a virtual disk is deleted, the physical disk configured as global hot spare is not reported as hot spare through the iDRAC interface. However, the physical disk continues to function as a global hot spare. Resolution Reset DRAC or power cycle the host system. Versions/Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8 and out-of-band enabled PERC storage controllers.
Versions/Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8 Issue 30: Description Repository update operations through the iDRAC with reserved characters in user name and password may not be successful at the DUP download stage, even when they are properly percent encoded by the user. This does not affect other update methods. Resolution Use a user name and password without reserved characters and then perform an update. Versions/Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8.
Issue 34: Description On 13 generation PowerEdge systems, a clone export of a system having 64 Virtual Disks does not recreate Virtual Disks on target system. Resolution On Clone or Replace modes of Configuration XML export, the virtual disk creation operation is set to "CreateAuto" by default. Change the operation to "Create" and specify the Physical disks to be used by FQDD to resolve this issue. Versions/Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8.
Issue 38: Description Infrequently, iDRAC logs the following message to the Lifecycle Controller log: PWR2262 "The Intel Management Engine has reported an internal system error" Also, logs the following within the next few minutes: PWR2264 "The Intel Management Engine has reported normal system operation". Resolution No action required. Versions/Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8.
Issue 42: Description If you log in to the iDRAC8 Web interface with Login and Config iDRAC privilege, then on the Update and Rollback page, an additional Firmware Settings submenu appears. Resolution None Versions/Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8. Issue 43: Description On the Network Devices page, the Initiator and Storage Target Settings table overflows to the right if you set the initiator name and chap ID value with more than 120 characters.
Issue 47: Description When you update the rebrand image from the iDRAC Web interface, the system reboots and the rebranded images are applied successfully. During POST, if you press , the Lifecycle Controller UI starts to launch. The progress bar displays till 90% and then the system starts rebooting. Resolution After rebranding, do not access Lifecycle Controller UI. Versions/ Systems Affected All Dell PowerEdge systems with iDRAC8.
• Performing a graceful shutdown from the iDRAC8 Web interface or updating the BIOS or the firmware using the iDRAC8 update method: o For SLES 11 SP2: A prompt appears for the Super user password in the operating system console. Provide the root password and proceed with the graceful shutdown or firmware/BIOS update. o For Windows OS in screen lock state: Graceful shutdown does not happen because, Windows operating system has a policy setting to disable shutdown while in locked state.
LC GUI - Fixes None. LC GUI - Important Notes • This release note is the latest and overrides the release note available on the LC GUI. • The drivers exposed by Lifecycle Controller are present in a read-only hard disk drive, labeled OEMDRV, which are active for 18 hours. During this period: o You cannot update any DUP. o Lifecycle Controller cannot invoke CSIOR. However, if an AC power cycle (cold boot) is performed, the OEMDRV drive is automatically deleted.
Resolution Retry the operation. Versions/Systems Affected All LC–supported Dell PowerEdge servers. Issue 3 Description Some of the supported components are not displayed on the Firmware Update-> View Current Versions page. Resolution Restart the server and open View Current Versions page.
Versions/Systems Affected All LC–supported Dell PowerEdge servers. Issue 7 Description In the Firmware Rollback – Select Components page, the iDRAC version is displayed as 2.02.01.00 instead of 2.02.01.01. Resolution Issue is with the version number that is displayed and this does not affect the functionality. You can continue with the rollback operation. Versions/Systems Affected All LC–supported Dell PowerEdge servers.
• Some properties related to devices installed in PowerEdge VRTX system are not displayed while viewing the current hardware inventory. • Lifecycle Controller can import and view an iDRAC license, but it cannot export or delete the iDRAC license. • The iSCSI offload feature can be enabled only on two of the available four ports. If the iSCSI offload attribute is enabled on a card, and is replaced by another card whose iSCSI offload mode is also enabled on the other two ports, an error is thrown.
• If the boot mode is set to UEFI in BIOS (F2 setup) and if you launch System Services (FlO) and Deploy OS, the installation may fail or you may not be able to boot to the OS after the installation. Always make sure that the boot mode is set to BIOS in F2 setup before launching Lifecycle Controller and deploying the OS. • You may see a no optical device found error if you have a non-usable DVD/CD in the optical drive. This error does not mean that there are no optical devices on the system.
iDRAC8 - Installation Installation Instructions • From the Windows host operating system (managed node), run the Dell Update Package for Windows and follow the instructions on the update wizard. • From the Linux host operating system (managed node), run the Dell Update Package for Linux from the shell prompt. Follow the instructions displayed on the console. • From the management station, remotely update the firmware using the iDRAC8 Web interface: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
For more information on how to install WinRM 2.0 as a part of the Windows Management Framework Core package, see article 968929 in the Microsoft Knowledge Base at: http://go.microsoft.
Accessing Documents From Dell Support Site To access the documents from Dell Support site: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Go to dell.com/support/manuals. In the Tell us about your Dell system section, under No, select Choose from a list of all Dell products and click Continue. In the Select your product type section, click Software and Security.
