Dell USC Manuale utente

Dell Lifecycle Controller

USC/USC-LCE

Version 1.5

User’s Guide

Notes and Cautions

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Contents 3

Contents

1Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Why Use USC/USC-LCE?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

USC and USC-LCE Features and 

Product Classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

What’s new in USC/USC-LCE 1.5 . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Upgrading to USC or USC-LCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Other Documents You May Need . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

2Using USC or USC-LCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Launching USC or USC-LCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Launch Messages—Causes 

and Resolutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Enabling USC or USC-LCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Disabling USC or USC-LCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Canceling Request to Enter 

System Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Using USC for the First Time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Using USC-LCE for the First Time . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Using USC Settings Wizard. . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

4Contents

3USC and USC-LCE Features . . . . . . . . . . 25

Lifecycle Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

USC-LCE Platform Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

FTP Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Platform Rollback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Hardware Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Configuration Wizards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

HII Advanced Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Hardware Inventory–View and Export . . . . . . . 28

Delete Configuration and Reset Defaults. . . . . . 30

Operating System Deployment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Driver Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Driver Extraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Driver Installation Methods. . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

RAID Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Platform Restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Part Replacement Configuration . . . . . . . . . . 32

Backup Server Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Export Server Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Import Server Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Hardware Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

USC or USC-LCE Repair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

RAID Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Key Encryption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Local Key Encryption Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Contents 5

4USC and USC-LCE Operations . . . . . . . . . 37

Viewing Hardware Inventory–Current or 

Factory Shipped . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Exporting Hardware Inventory–Current or 

Factory Shipped . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Viewing and Exporting Hardware Inventory 

after Resetting Lifecycle Controller . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Updating Platform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Version Compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Viewing Current Version Information. . . . . . . . 40

Launching Platform Update Wizard . . . . . . . . 40

Selecting Download Method . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Selecting and Applying Updates . . . . . . . . . . 44

Rolling Back to Previous BIOS and 

Firmware Versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Updating Hardware Diagnostics Utility . . . . . . . . . 47

Performing Hardware Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Installing Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Selecting Operating System Driver Source 

Location (for USC only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Online Repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Local Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Using Optional RAID Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Configuring RAID Using Operating System 

Deployment Wizard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

6Contents

Bypass RAID configuration: . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Selecting Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Selecting an Operating System 

Available in the List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Selecting Custom Operating System . . . . . . . . 53

Selecting an Operating System Not 

Available in the List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Driver Extraction and Installation. . . . . . . . . . 54

Installing Drivers for RHEL 4.8 

Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Rebooting System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Post Reboot Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Operating System–Post Installation Scenarios . . . . . 56

Assigning a Windows-Bootable 

System Partition to Drive C . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.8 

on a System with SAS7 (H200) Controller. . . . . . 56

Controlling Access to the System Control Panel . . . . 57

System Control Panel Access Options . . . . . . . 57

Configuring System Date/Time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Configuring iDRAC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

LAN Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Advanced LAN Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Common IP Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

IPv4 Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

IPv6 Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Virtual Media Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

LAN User Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Summary and Confirmation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Configuring RAID using Hardware RAID . . . . . . . . 70

Contents 7

Important . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

View Current Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Select RAID Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Foreign Configuration Found . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Express or Advanced Wizard. . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Select Basic Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Express Wizard Only - Assign a Hot Spare. . . . . 75

Express Wizard Only - Review Summary. . . . . . 76

Advanced Wizard Only - Select 

Physical Disks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Advanced Wizard Only - Additional 

Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Advanced Wizard Only - Review Summary . . . . 78

Configuring RAID using Software RAID . . . . . . . . . 79

Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Creating a Secure Virtual Disk on 

Series 7 Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Configuring vFlash SD Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

HII Advanced Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Encrypting Unsecure Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Applying the Local Key on the RAID Controller . . . . . 85

Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Rekey Controller with a New Local Key . . . . . . . . 86

Remove Encryption and Delete Data . . . . . . . . . . 86

8Contents

Upgrading to an iDRAC6 Express Card . . . . . . . . . 87

Installing iDRAC6 Express Card. . . . . . . . . . . 87

Transferring an iDRAC6 Express Card . . . . . . . 88

Removing iDRAC6 Express Card . . . . . . . . . . 88

Configuring a Local FTP Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Requirements for a Local FTP Server. . . . . . . . 89

Copying Repository to a Local FTP Server 

from the Dell Server Updates DVD . . . . . . . . . 89

Using Dell Repository Manager to Create 

the Repository and Copy it to a 

Local FTP Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Accessing Updates on a Local FTP Server . . . . . 90

Configuring a Local USB Device. . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Copying Repository to a Local USB Device 

from the Dell Server Updates DVD . . . . . . . . . 91

Using the Dell Repository Manager to Create 

the Repository and Copy it to a 

USB Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Part Replacement Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Supported Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Collect System Inventory on Restart . . . . . . . . 93

Part Firmware Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Part Configuration Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Back Up Server Profile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Exporting Server Profile to a USB Device 

or Network Share . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Contents 9

Importing Server Profile from a vFlash SD Card, 

Network Share, or USB Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Post-import Scenario . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Importing Server Profile after Motherboard 

Replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Post-requisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Viewing Lifecycle Log History. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Exporting Lifecycle Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Adding a Work Note to Lifecycle Log . . . . . . . . . . 103

Deleting Configuration and Resetting Defaults . . . . . 103

5Troubleshooting and Frequently 

Asked Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Repairing the USC and USC-LCE . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Repairing USC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Repairing USC-LCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Frequently Asked Questions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

10 Contents

ALifecycle Log Schema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

BEasy-to-use System Component

Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

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