- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Introduction
- Using Lifecycle Controller
- Operating system deployment
- Monitor
- Hardware inventory view and export
- About view and export current inventory
- About view and export factory-shipped inventory
- Viewing hardware inventory — current or factory shipped
- Exporting hardware inventory — current or factory shipped
- Viewing or exporting hardware inventory after part replacement
- Viewing or exporting current inventory after resetting Lifecycle Controller
- Lifecycle Controller log
- Firmware update
- Configure
- System control panel access options
- Configuring iDRAC
- Configuring system time and date
- Configuring vFlash SD card
- Configuring RAID
- Configuring RAID using software RAID
- Creating a secure virtual disk on a RAID controller
- Key encryption
- Local key encryption mode
- Breaking mirrored drives
- System setup — Advanced Hardware Configuration
- Collect system inventory on restart
- Configuring local FTP server
- Configuring a local USB drive
- Configuring NFS and CIFS servers
- Conditions while configuring HTTP server
- Maintain
- Platform restore
- Backup server profile
- Export server profile
- Import server profile
- Import server license
- Part replacement configuration
- Repurpose or retire system
- Hardware diagnostics
- SupportAssist Collection
- Easy-to-use system component names
- Using the system setup and boot manager
- Troubleshooting and frequently asked questions
Dell Lifecycle Controller GUI v2.30.30.30 User's Guide
About server profile backup image
The server profile backup image file contains:
- Readable
- System identification information such as model number and Service Tag. For example, R720 and 1P3HRBS.
- Date and time the backup was last taken.
- Currently installed hardware inventory information.
- Firmware for each component.
- Encrypted
- Component configuration information.
- User name and password for RAID controller and BIOS.
- Component certificates.
- Licenses.
- Signature to validate that the backup file is not tampered and generated by Lifecycle Controller.
The server profile backup image file does not contain:
- Operating system or any data stored on hard-disk drives or virtual drives.
- vFlash SD card partition information.
- Lifecycle log.
- Dell diagnostics.
- Dell OS Driver Pack.
- A Local Key Management (LKM) passphrase, if the LKM–based storage encryption is enabled. However, you must provide the LKM passphrase after performing the restore operation.
Security
The contents of the backup image file cannot be accessed with any application, even if it is generated without a passphrase. However, if the backup image file is created using a passphrase, Lifecycle Controller uses the passphrase to encrypt the backup image file with 128-bit encryption.
Performance
- Back up — The time taken to collect the required information and store the backup image file on a vFlash SD card is 45 minutes (maximum).
- Restore — The time taken to restore a server using a backup image file depends on the number of components installed on the server. Most of the server components such as BIOS, NIC, RAID, and other host bus adapters require multiple system restarts in order to restore the server to its previous configuration. Each restart may take 1–15 minutes (for maximum system hardware configurations). This restart time is in addition to the time taken for accessing the backup image file, which depends on where it is stored (vFlash SD card, USB drive, or network share).
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