Dell Lifecycle Controller GUI v2.70.70.70 User's Guide

Key features

The key features of Lifecycle Controller are:

• Provisioning—Entire pre-operating system configuration from a unified interface.
• Deploying—Simplified operating system installation with the embedded drivers on Lifecycle Controller. Unattended installation mode is available for Microsoft Windows and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 operating systems.
• Download drivers for operating system installation from downloads.dell.com.
• Patching or updating—Operating system agnostic, and reduced maintenance downtime with direct access to updates from downloads.dell.com. It simplifies firmware updates by maintaining a working version for rollback.
• Servicing—Continuous availability of diagnostics without depending on a hard-disk drive. Ability to flash firmware automatically, while replacing components such as a Dell PowerEdge storage controller, NIC, and power supply unit. Support for VLAN in network configuration.
• System erase—Deletes the server and storage-related data on selected components of a server. You can delete information on BIOS, Lifecycle Controller data (LC logs, configuration database and rollback firmware versions), iDRAC settings, and storage components on the server.
  NOTE: You cannot delete the iDRAC license file.
• Security—Support local key encryption.
• Restoring the server—Back up the server profile (including RAID configuration) and restore the server to a previously known state. Importing a server license, firmware rollback, and restoring system configuration if there was system board replacement.
• Hardware inventory—Provides information about the current and factory system configuration.
• Lifecycle Controller logs for troubleshooting.
• CIFS operations—CIFS operations performed from LCUI uses SMBv2 protocol.
  NOTE: File transfer operations from LCUI uses SMBv2 protocol but is displayed as CIFS on the GUI.