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July 26th, 2018 16:00

Mount iso from file server as virtual media via idrac

Hi,

We have a http file server which hosts an iso file (e.g., http://192.168.10.5/my.iso). We want to mount it to a remote server as virtual media. Can we do this through idrac cli (vmcli)?

Below is what I find from the vmcli help menu. It doesn't seem that I can do something like "vmcli -f http://192.168.10.5/my.iso".

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-f is a valid drive letter(for Windows) or valid
device file name, including the mountable file system partition number,
if applicable(for Linux); and is the file name and
path of a valid image file.
For example, an image file is specified as
-f c:\temp\floppy.img (Windows)
-f /temp/floppy.img (Linux)

For example, a device is specified as:
-f a:\ (Windows)
-f /dev/sdb4 4th partition on device /dev/sdb (Linux)
This option should also be used for USB devices or USB Image files.

-c is a valid CD/DVD drive letter(Windows systems) or a
valid CD/DVD device file name(Linux systems) and is the
file name and path of a valid ISO-9660 image file.

For example, an image file is specified as:
-c c:\temp\cd_dvd.iso (Windows)
-c /temp/cd_dvd.iso (Linux)

For example, a device file is specified as:
-c d:\ (Windows)
-c /dev/cdrom (Linux)

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Thanks.

 

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July 26th, 2018 20:00

You can use remote racadm to mount an iso from http share. VMCLI does not support mounting image from share. Below is syntax of racadm command to connect iso file from http share to iDRAC. To perform this you need to install iDRAC FW 2.60.60.60 (for 12G and 13G Servers) or 3.21.21.21 (for 14G Servers)

racadm remoteimage -c -u "user" -p "pass" -l http://url/shrloc/foo.iso

Check link for more details on this command.

 

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November 13th, 2018 15:00

Does this still work Remote file share over http on Dell r740xd servers.

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The above url is also not working and we get the following error when we open it

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