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Dell Chassis Management Controller Version 3.0 for PowerEdge VRTX Release Notes

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What is new

Release 3.0

  • Supporting PowerEdge M640 blade server on the PowerEdge VRTX Chassis.
  • Updating the physical mapping of TOR switch ports to Dell EMC's 14th generation server ports using LLDP open source package version 0.7.7.
  • Unlocking the foreign SEDs from CMC GUI.
  • Collecting CMC dumplogs as part of the server's SupportAssist tab.
    • Integrating ZIP open source package version 3.0 for SupportAssist.
    • Integrating LSOF open source package version 4.86 for SupportAssist.
  • Monitoring "wear gauge" of SSDs.
  • Monitoring CMC Fan sensors PWM using RACADM:
    • getsensorinfo
  • Integrating the event filter configurations on chassis profile XML file.
  • Updating the OpenSSL open source package to version 1.0.2K.
  • Updating the OpenSSH open source package to version 7.4p1.
  • Updating enterprise OID in the SNMPv3 trap.
  • Extending SNMP protocol and custom discovery port configuration in GUI.
  • Extending SNMPv3 trap configuration support in WSMan.
  • Configuring CMC using WSMan for the following SNMPv3 user attributes:
    • userAdminSNMPv3Enable
    • userAdminSNMPv3AuthenticationType
    • userAdminSNMPv3PrivacyType
  • Monitoring CMC using WSMan for the following sensors:
    • Fan sensor speed
    • Temperature sensor for chassis and servers
  • Providing racadm commands to initiate/cancel consistency checks of all VDs:
    • raid ccheckall
    • raid cancelcheckall

Release 2.23

  • Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) certified. Certification Number: #2861. For details, see www.csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/documents/140-1/140val-all.htm#2861

Release 2.22

  • Updated the OpenSSL open source package to version 1.0.2j.

Release 2.20

  • Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 cryptography capability.
  • Disabling AC Power Recovery.
  • Creating a Virtual Disk without initialization of the virtual disk.
  • Pre-enablement of the following features for Self-Encrypting Drives (SEDs):
    • Creating, modifying, and deleting the security key — using key identifier and passphrase
    • Secure erase
    • Encrypting virtual disks
    • Unlocking and importing secure foreign virtual disk configuration using RACADM and WSMan
  • Querying shared storage health using SNMP.
  • Enabling sPERC Redundancy and setting up Multiple Assignment Mode using WSMan.
  • Performing racresetcfg from CMC GUI.
  • Updating the OpenSSL open source package to version 1.0.2f.
  • Updating the OpenSSH open source package to version 7.1p1.
  • Updating glibc to version 2.23 to address new security vulnerabilities.
  • TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.1 by default.
  • User configuration option to enable TLS 1.0 using RACADM.
  • SNMPv3 configuration only in RACADM.
  • Querying the health status of the chassis components using WSMan.
  • Initiating Quick Deploy of blade through RACADM.
  • Configuring CMC using WSMan for the following features:
    • Host Name of Chassis
    • IP Configuration
    • DNS
    • DNS Registration
    • NTP
    • Change Default Password
  • Sending alerts when the power state of an IOM changes and when a power ON of IOM fails.
  • Populating CMC Device name correctly in the inventory.

Release 2.12

  • Quick link to the Dell Tech Center page from the CMC web GUI.

Release 2.10

  • Support for PowerEdge M830 Blade server for PowerEdge VRTX Chassis.
  • Support for 1100W PSU.
  • Pre-enablement support for the Shared External Storage expansion (JBOD support).
  • Firmware and driver refresh of COMMs cards on Dell's 13th generation PowerEdge servers.
  • Support for Emulex Fibre Channel (FC) 8 HBA adapters.
  • Capture and replicate chassis configurations through XML based on the Chassis configuration profile.
  • Support for blinking server identification LED using Quick Link.
  • Backup or restore through XML based on the chassis configuration profile.
  • Create and deploy a library of Boot Identity Profiles (boot from iSCSI/SAN configurations) to enable a quick restore of workload to a spare server.

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