Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration for Microsoft System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager User’s Guide
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Contents 1 About Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration for Microsoft System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager................................................................ 5 2 Working With DLCI Console Add-in for SC2012 VMM.................................. 7 Installing DLCI Console Add-in.............................................................................................................7 Importing DLCI Console Into VMM............................................................................
About Credential Profile......................................................................................................................19 Creating Credential Profiles................................................................................................................ 19 Modifying Credential Profiles............................................................................................................. 20 Deleting Credential Profiles.....................................................
About Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration for Microsoft System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager 1 Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration (DLCI) for Microsoft System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (SC2012 VMM) enables hardware configuration and provides a solution to simplify and improve the operating system deployment on Dell servers. This plugin uses the remote deployment feature of the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) with Lifecycle Controller.
• View information on jobs — view information logged for various jobs that are performed in the DLCI appliance. For information on Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager, see Microsoft documentation. This document contains information on the prerequisites and supported software necessary for installing the DLCI appliance. If you are installing this version of DLCI appliance after a long time after its release date, check to see if there is an updated version of this document at support.dell.com.
Working With DLCI Console Add-in for SC2012 VMM 2 Working With DLCI Console Add-in for SC2012 VMM includes the following: • Review and complete system requirements and then install DLCI Console Add-in for SC2012 VMM, see Installing DLCI Console Add-in for SC2012 VMM. • Import DLCI Console in to VMM Console, see Importing DLCI Console in to VMM Console. • View DLCI Console in VMM Console, see Viewing DLCI Console . • Uninstall DLCI Console, see Uninstalling DLCI Console.
Importing DLCI Console Into VMM To work with the DLCI appliance, you must import DLCI Console in to the VMM Console. For the connection with DLCI appliance to work, in the web browser, clear the proxy setting; however, if the web browser’s proxy settings are configured, then in the proxy exception list, include the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the DLCI appliance. To import the DLCI Console in to the VMM Console: 1. In SC2012 VMM, click Settings. 2.
Getting Started 3 Management systems are the systems on which Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration (DLCI) for Microsoft System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (SC2012 VMM) appliance virtual machine, also known as DLCI for SC2012 VMM appliance virtual machine and its components are installed.
1. 2. Heading banner — includes the product name and these options: • Admin — displays information of the user who has logged into DLCI for SC2012 VMM – Admin Portal. • Logout — logs out the DLCI for SC2012 VMM Admin Portal. • About — provides information on the DLCI for SC2012 VMM version. • Help — launches the context sensitive online help.
Using DLCI Console Add-in for SC2012 VMM DLCI Console Add-in user interface contains the following options: Figure 2. DLCI Console Add-in for SC2012 VMM 1. 2. Heading banner — Includes the product name and the following options: • \adminstrator — Displays information on the user who is logged into DLCI for SC2012 VMM. • About — Provides information on the DLCI for SC2012 VMM version. • Help — Launches the context sensitive online help.
User Scenarios 4 This section contains the following user scenarios: • Understanding Server Discovery • Auto Discovery of Dell Servers • Manual Discovery of Dell Servers • Inventory and Compliance Status • Understanding Server Deletion • Capturing Golden Configuration • Hypervisor Deployment Understanding Server Discovery For information on the server discovery behavior, see Server Discovery.
2. Prerequisites for Dell Server Compliance 3. Working with Inventory 4. Deleting Servers from DLCI Console Understanding Server Deletion For information on deleting servers in DLCI for SC2012 VMM, see Deleting Servers from DLCI Console. Capturing Golden Configurations You can prepare a server with an ideal configuration, also called as golden configuration, and use it to replicate the configuration on all the servers getting deployed into a virtual environment.
Setting Up Environment for Operating System Deployment 5 To set up an environment for operating system deployment: 1. Prepare Golden Configurations. 2. Create a physical computer profile in SC2012 VMM. For more information see SC2012 VMM documentation. 3. Create a target host group in SC2012 VMM, for more information see SC2012 VMM documentation. 4.
Server Discovery 6 You can do out-of-band discovery of unassigned Dell servers and import information on Dell servers into DLCI for SC2012 VMM.
System Requirements for Managed Systems Managed systems are the systems that are managed using DLCI for SC2012 VMM appliance. Managed systems can include Microsoft Hyper-Vs. The system requirements are as follows: • For the 13th generation of Dell PowerEdge servers, DLCI for SC2012 VMM supports only monolithic server models. • For source profile and destination profile, same type of disks are used — only SAS or only SATA drives on systems.
Discovering Dell Servers You can manually discover servers using an IP address or an IP range. To discover servers, you must provide the servers’ iDRAC IP and the servers’ WS-Man Credentials. When you are discovering servers using an IP range, specify an IP (IPv4) range (within a subnet). To discover Dell servers: 1. In DLCI Console Add-in for SC2012 VMM, do any of the following: • 2. In the dashboard, click Discover Unassigned Servers.
• To delete unassigned servers: In Unassigned Servers, select the server and click Delete and in the confirmation message click Yes. If the unassigned server is associated with a license, then after the server is deleted the associated license is relinquished. • To delete host servers from the DLCI Console, you must first delete the host servers from SC2012 VMM.
Hardware Configuration and Operating System Deployment 7 Hardware configurations are gathered in a hardware profile and the hardware configuration includes BIOS, boot order, RAID, and other information.
Modifying Credential Profiles To modify a credential profile: Select the credential profile you want to modify, click Edit and update the profile as required. Deleting Credential Profiles To delete a credential profile: Select the profile that you want to delete and click Delete. Creating Hardware Profiles You can create a hardware profile by using the golden configuration of the reference server and then use that profile to apply hardware configurations to target servers.
Modifying Hardware Configuration Profiles You can modify a profile. However, you cannot modify the RAID settings. To modify a hardware configuration profile: 1. In DLCI Console Add-in for SC2012 VMM, click Hardware Profile. 2. Select the profile that you want to modify and click Edit. 3. Make the required changes and click Finish. Deleting a Hardware Profile To delete a hardware configuration profile: 1. In DLCI Console Add-in for SC2012 VMM, click Hardware Profile. 2.
Modifying a Hypervisor Profile To modify a hypervisor profile: 1. In DLCI Console Add-in for SC2012 VMM, in Hypervisor Profile, select the profile that you want to modify and click Edit. 2. Provide the details and click Finish. Deleting a Hypervisor Profile To delete a hypervisor profile: In DLCI Console Add-in for SC2012 VMM, in Hypervisor Profile, select the profile that you want to delete and click Delete. About Deployment Operating system deployment supports one-to-one and one–to–many deployment.
• 2. 3. In the DLCI for SC2012 VMM appliance virtual machine navigation pane, click Profiles and Templates, and then click Deployment Template. In Deployment Template, enter template name, template description, select a hypervisor profile and hardware profile. However, selecting a hardware profile is optional. (Optional) If the hardware or hypervisor profile is not created, you can create the profiles by click Create New. Modifying a Deployment Template You can modify a deployment template.
DTK is a self extracting executable file. To work with DTK: 1. Double click the DTK executable file. 2. Select the folder to extract the DTK drivers, for example C:\DTK501. 3. Copy the extracted DTK folder to the Integration Gateway’s DTK share folder. For example \\DLCI IG Share\DTK\DTK501. Perform operations on bare metal servers from the All-Host (Or top level host group) tab. Also, the workflow to support the injection of Drivers to WinPE is accessible from the All-Host tab.
Troubleshooting 8 For a DLCI for SC2012 VMM user, check and set the set-execution policy value as unrestricted. This is required as the share folders that is created during installation should have full permission for the user who has logged in to DLCI for SC2012 VMM.
To remove files from library share: 1. From SC2012 VMM Console, select Library → Library Servers and then select the Integration Gateway server that was added as the library server. 2. In the library server, select and delete the library share. 3. After the library share is deleted, connect to the Integration Gateway share using \\\LCDriver\. 4. Delete the folder that contains the driver files. Now, you can deploy operating systems.
