Lifecycle Controller 2 Version 1.1.
Release Notes Lifecycle Controller 2 An out-of-band mechanism for configuring the platform, applying firmware updates, saving a system inventory, or deploying an operating system, either by using a GUI or a remote scripting language. Lifecycle Controller 2 GUI provides advances embedded systems management and is delivered as part of Integrated Dell® Remote Access Controller 7 (iDRAC7) version 1.40.40. The GUI enables remote systems management in a one-to-one method.
What is Supported? Supported Systems and Operating Systems For the list of supported systems, contact your service provider. For the list of PowerEdge systems and operating systems that can be deployed on the target systems, contact your service provider. For more information about supported versions of VMware ESX and ESXi on PowerEdge systems, contact your service provider. Supported Web Browsers Not applicable What’s New? Support for the new operating systems.
Important Notes License Requirements: Software licensing has replaced hardware licensing. For more information, see the iDRAC7 o User's Guide. Many features in Lifecycle Controller are licensed. You must install the required license to use these features. For more information, see the Introduction section in the Lifecycle Controller 2 1.1 User's Guide. o The drivers exposed by Lifecycle Controller are present in a read-only hard disk drive, labeled OEMDRV, which are active for 18 hours.
Issue 3 Description While deploying Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 from OS Deployment of Lifecycle Controller, installation stops with the following error: There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive \Device\Harddisk0\DR0. This issue may occur due to any of the following reasons: Virtual Media is in the attached state, with no media mapped. Virtual Media is in the auto-attached state, with media mapped.
Limitations Limitation 1 Description The following characters are supported for 'User Name' and 'Password': Digits (0–9) Alphanumeric (a–z, A–Z) Hyphen (-) Note: For 'Domain Name', a period (.) is allowed. For example, 'x123.com'. Versions/Systems Affected All Limitation 2 Description While updating iDRAC firmware using a tool other than Lifecycle Controller, Lifecycle Controller must not be open or running, because it results in an unknown behavior.
Versions/Systems Affected Lifecycle Controller 2 version 1.1.5 Limitation 6 Description Rollback is not supported for CPLD. Versions/Systems Affected Lifecycle Controller 2 version 1.1.5 Limitation 7 Description To apply the license after updating a license, make sure to relaunch Lifecycle Controller. Versions/Systems Affected Lifecycle Controller 2 version 1.1.
Limitation 11 Description 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. The Firmware will not allow the attribute to be set, because it is already set on the other two ports. Versions/Systems Affected Lifecycle Controller 2 version 1.1.5 Installation Prerequisites iDRAC7 version 1.40.40.
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