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Dell XC Series Appliance and XC Core System Life Cycle Manager Reference Guide

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Revision history

Date Document revision Description of changes
December 2023 1.37 Updates for this release:
  • RIM release- DELL-LCM-2.7
  • Firmware updates for 14G, 15G and 16G platforms
September 2023 1.36 Updates for this release:
  • RIM release- DELL-LCM-2.6
  • Firmware updates for 14G and 15G platforms
August 2023 1.35 Updates for this release:
  • RIM release- DELL-LCM-2.5.1
  • New Hypervisor support- AHV el8
June 2023 1.34 Updates for this release:
  • RIM release - Dell-LCM-2.5
  • Firmware Updates for 14G, 15G Platforms
  • Intel and Broadcom NIC driver update support for ESXi 7.0
  • iSM 5.1 for ESXi 7.0
January 2023 1.33

Updates for this release:

  • RIM release - Dell-LCM-2.3
  • Firmware Updates
October 2022 1.32

Updates for this release:

  • RIM release - Dell-LCM-2.3
  • Firmware Updates
  • Intel NIC driver update support for HyperV2019
September 2022 1.31 Updated the Verify Support Requirements section.
June 2022 1.30

Updates for this release:

  • RIM release - Dell-LCM-2.2
  • Enabled LCM Update support for the XC 15G AMD platform
  • iSM 4.2.0 (ESXi 7.0, AHV el7, HyperV2019)
  • Firmware updates
April 2022 1.29
Updates for this release:
  • RIM release - Dell-LCM-2.1
  • Enabled LCM Update support for XC 15G Intel platforms
  • Firmware updates
January 2022 1.28
Updates for this release:
  • RIM release - Dell-LCM-2.0
  • Firmware updates
  • Redfish Update process for 14G
December 2021 1.27
Updates for this release:
  • RIM release - Dell-LCM-1.10
  • Firmware updates
October 2021 1.26
Updates for this release:
  • RIM release - Dell-LCM-1.9
  • Integrated Toshiba drive firmware for critical updates
September 2021 1.25

Updates for this release:

  • LCM-2.4.3
  • RIM 1.8.1
  • Enhancements in satadom updates
August 2021 1.24

Updates for this release:

  • RIM release - Dell-LCM-1.8
  • PTAgent 2.5.1
  • Firmware updates
July 2021 1.23

Updates for this release:

  • LCM release - LCM-2.4.2
  • Enabled support for Hyper-V updates
  • Removed support for XC6515-8 Core AMD
May 2021 1.22

Updates for this release:

  • RIM release- DELL-LCM-1.7.1
  • PTAgent 2.4
May 2021 1.21

Updates for this release:

  • RIM release- DELL-LCM-1.7
  • Firmware Updates
March 2021 1.20 Updates for this release:
  • Hyper-V 2019 temporarily disabled (refer to the KB article located here)
  • LCM release- LCM-2.4.1
  • RIM release - DELL-LCM-1.5.1
  • Updated PTAgent to 2.3
  • Updated iSM to 3.6*

*iSM support version for AHVel6 is 3.4.0

February 2021 1.19 Updates for this release:
  • RIM release - DELL-LCM-1.5
  • Updated 13G BIOS firmware addressing security fixes
  • Integrated HGST HDD firmware for critical updates
  • Updated Toshiba HDD firmware for critical updates
December 2020 1.18 Updates for this release:
  • RIM release - DELL-LCM-1.4
  • PTAgent 2.2
  • Updated 14G BIOS firmware addressing security fixes
November 2020 1.17 Updates for this release:
  • RIM release- DELL-LCM-1.3
  • Firmware updates
September 2020 1.16

Updates for this release:

  • RIM release- DELL-LCM-1.2
  • PTA 2.1
  • New Hypervisor support- ESXi 7.0
  • New Platform support- XC6515-8 CORE
  • Firmware updates
  • Bug fixes
August 2020 1.15

Updates for this release:

  • RIM release- DELL-LCM-1.1
  • Updated 14G iDRAC firmware for security fixes
  • Updated 14G BIOS firmware
  • Integrated Toshiba HDD firmware for critical updates
  • Updated section Appendix A with firmware version detail
July 2020 1.14

Updates for this release:

  • LCM 2.3.2
  • PTA 1.9.6
  • iSM 3.5.1
  • New Hypervisor support- HyperV 2019, AHV el7
  • New platform support- XC740xd2 CORE
  • Firmware updates
  • Bug Fixes
May 2020 1.13

Updated section 1.3 with minimum recommended version support for LCM

Updated Section 2.3 Update steps

Updated section 3 with Inventory Post update section

Updated section 4.6 with Backplane SEP versions

April 2020 1.12 Updated platform support

Updated procedure to verify iDRAC version

March 2020 1.11 Updates for this release:
  • LCM 2.3.1
  • PTA 1.9.4
  • iSM 3.5
  • Firmware updates
February 2020 1.10 Updated the Hypervisor support section
December 19, 2019 1.9.1 Removed section 4.6: LCM requires two update passes for the backplane or SSD update
December 12, 2019 1.9 Updates for this release:
  • Bug fixes
  • AOS 5.11 support
  • Hyper-V 2012R2 support deprecated
November 2019 1.8 Updated the following sections:
  • Before you update LCM
  • Stopping the Foundation Service
September 2019 1.7 Updates include:
  • 14th generation BIOS firmware version changed from 2.1.8 to 2.2.11
  • Hyperlink change in Dell.com/XCSeriesmanuals to point to dell.com/xcseriesmanuals
July 2019 1.6 Update for this release:
  • 14th generation BIOS firmware
June 2019 1.5 Updates for this release:
  • LCM 2.2
  • PTAgent 1.9
  • iSM 3.4
  • NVMe PM1725a firmware
  • Firmware updates
  • Bug fixes
April 2019 1.4 Firmware updates
March 2019 1.3
  • Added ESXi 6.7
  • Updated Hyper-V
  • Added SSD support
  • Added Release Content
December 2018 1.2 Updated the following sections:
  • Introduction
  • Support statements
  • Running LCM update
June 2018 1.1 Updated the following sections:
  • Support statements
  • Definitions and support requirements
  • Known behaviors and troubleshooting
May 2018 1.0 Initial release

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