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disks, enclosures, and parent-child relationships between the collections. Additionally, there is a configuration service

that contains all the methods used to configure the RAID storage.

You can perform the following operations:

• Retrieve current configuration of RAID inventory

• Delete all virtual disks and unassign all the hot spare physical disk drives

• Prepare any foreign physical disks for inclusion in the local configuration

• Manage hot spares

• Manage Keys for self-encrypting drives

• Manage virtual disks

• Set controller attributes

• Change RAID-ready states of the physical disk drives

NIC Configuration

Network Interface Controller (NIC) configuration feature is used to set up or modify configuration settings for supported

NIC cards (for example, Intel, Qlogic, and Broadcom). These configuration settings can be set or updated both locally

and remotely using Lifecycle Controller-Remote Services.

The NICs supported by Lifecycle Controller provide an array of networking features converged into a single controller:

• Traditional NIC capabilities

• Internet Small Computer System Interface over Ethernet (iSCSI) capabilities

• Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) capabilities

You can configure various device capabilities such as:

• Personalities (FCoE, ISOE, Layer 2 NIC)

• NIC partition bandwidth allocation

• Boot versus Offload

• I/O Identity

Operating System Deployment

The operating system deployment feature is used to remotely deploy and manage an operating system using WSMAN

Web services protocols that use CIFS and NFS network file sharing protocols. Remote activation of local exposure of

embedded drivers as a USB drive eliminates the need for physical media.

You can perform the following operations:

• Get installed Driver Pack version and list of supported operating systems.

• Remote activation of local exposure of embedded drivers for the selected operating system as an emulated USB

device to the server that is automatically installed during installation.

• Remote acquisition for embedded drivers for the selected operating system to a CIFS or NFS network share that

can be used later for operating system deployment.

• Boot to an ISO image located on a CIFS or and NFS network share to initiate an operating system installation.

• Download ISO to vFlash SD card and boot from the card to initiate an operating system installation.

• Connecting an ISO from CIFS or NFS network share, attaching it as virtual USB CD-ROM device to the server,

and booting the server to the ISO, every time the server restarts.

• One time boot to PXE.

• One time boot to hard disk.