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Dell Chassis Management Controller Version 3.10 for Dell EMC PowerEdge VRTX User's Guide

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Configuring iDRAC QuickDeploy Network Settings

Use the QuickDeploy Settings to configure the network settings for newly inserted servers.

To enable and set the iDRAC QuickDeploy settings:

  1. In the left pane, click Server Overview > Setup > iDRAC .
  2. On the Deploy iDRAC page, in the QuickDeploy Settings section, specify the settings mentioned in the following table. For more information about the fields, see the Online Help.
    Table 1. QuickDeploy Settings . The following table contains descriptions of the QuickDeploy settings.
    Setting Description
    Action When Server is Inserted Select one of the following options from the list:
    • No Action — The action is not performed when the server is inserted.
    • QuickDeploy Only — Select this option to apply iDRAC network settings when a new server is inserted in the chassis. The specified auto-deployment settings are used to configure the new iDRAC, which includes the root user password if Change Root Password is selected.
    • Server Profile Only — Select this option to apply server profile assigned when a new server is inserted in the chassis.
    • QuickDeploy and Server Profile — Select this option to first apply the iDRAC network settings, and then to apply the server profile assigned when a new server is inserted in the chassis.
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    Set iDRAC Root Password on Server Insertion Select the option to change iDRAC root password to match the value provided in the iDRAC Root Password field, when a server is inserted.
    iDRAC Root Password When the Set iDRAC Root Password on Server Insertion and QuickDeploy Enabled options are selected, this password value is assigned to a server's iDRAC root user password when the server is inserted into a chassis. The password can have 1 to 20 printable (including white spaces) characters.
    Confirm iDRAC Root Password Allows you to retype the password provided in the Password field.
    Enable iDRAC LAN Enables or disables the iDRAC LAN channel. By default, this option is cleared.
    Enable iDRAC IPv4 Enables or disables IPv4 on iDRAC. By default, this option is selected.
    Enable iDRAC IPMI over LAN Enables or disables the IPMI over LAN channel for each iDRAC present in the chassis. By default, this option is selected.
    Enable iDRAC IPv4 DHCP Enables or disables DHCP for each iDRAC present in the chassis. If this option is enabled, the fields QuickDeploy IP , QuickDeploy Subnet Mask, and QuickDeploy Gateway are disabled, and cannot be modified since DHCP is used to automatically assign these settings for each iDRAC. To select this option, you must select the Enable iDRAC IPv4 option. Quick Deploy IP address is provided with two options — 2 and 4.
    Starting iDRAC IPv4 Address (Slot 1) Specifies the static IP address of iDRAC in the server, in slot 1 of the enclosure. The IP address of each subsequent iDRAC is incremented by 1 for each slot from slot 1's static IP address. In the case where the IP address plus the slot number is greater than the subnet mask, an error message is displayed.
    • NOTE: The subnet mask and the gateway are not incremented such as the IP address.

    For example, if the starting IP address is 192.168.0.250 and the subnet mask is 255.255.0.0 then the QuickDeploy IP address for slot 15 is 192.168.0.265. If the subnet mask is 255.255.255.0, the QuickDeploy IP address range is not fully within QuickDeploy Subnet error message is displayed when you click Save QuickDeploy Settings or Auto-Populate Using QuickDeploy Settings.

    iDRAC IPv4 Netmask Specifies the QuickDeploy subnet mask that is assigned to all newly inserted servers.
    iDRAC IPv4 Gateway Specifies the QuickDeploy default gateway that is assigned to all the DRAC present in the chassis.
    Enable iDRAC IPv6 Enables IPv6 addressing for each iDRAC present in the chassis that is IPv6 capable.
    Enable iDRAC IPv6 Autoconfiguration Enables the iDRAC to obtain IPv6 settings (address and prefix length) from a DHCPv6 server and also enables stateless address auto configuration. By default, this option is enabled.
    iDRAC IPv6 Gateway Specifies the default IPv6 gateway to be assigned to the iDRACs. The default value is "::".
    iDRAC IPv6 Prefix Length Specifies the prefix length to be assigned for the IPv6 addresses on the iDRAC. The default value is 64.
    Use CMC DNS Settings Communicates the CMC DNS server settings (IPv4 and IPv6) to iDRAC when a blade server is inserted in the chassis.
  3. Click Save QuickDeploy Settings to save the settings. If you have made changes to the iDRAC network setting, click Apply iDRAC Network Settings to deploy the settings to the iDRAC.

    The QuickDeploy feature only executes when it is enabled, and a server is inserted in the chassis. If Set iDRAC Root Password on Server Insertion and QuickDeploy Enabled are enabled, the user is prompted using the LCD interface to allow or not allow the password change. If there are network configuration settings that differ from the current iDRAC settings, the user is prompted to either accept or reject the changes.

    • NOTE: If there is a LAN or IPMI over LAN difference, the user is prompted to accept the QuickDeploy IP address setting. If the difference is the DHCP setting, the user is prompted to accept the DHCP QuickDeploy setting.

    To copy the QuickDeploy settings into the iDRAC Network Settings section, click Auto-Populate Using QuickDeploy Settings. The QuickDeploy network configurations settings are copied into the corresponding fields in the iDRAC Network Configuration Settings table.

    • NOTE: Changes made to QuickDeploy fields are immediate, but changes made to one or more iDRAC server network configuration settings may require a couple of minutes to propagate from CMC to iDRAC. Clicking Refresh early may display only partially correct data for one or more iDRAC servers.

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