Lifecycle Controller User's Guide
Operating system deployment
The OS Deployment feature allows you to deploy standard and custom operating systems on the managed system. You can also configure RAID before installing the operating system if it is not already configured.
Lifecycle Controller allows deploying the operating system using the following options:
- Manual installation
- Unattended installation. For more information on unattended installation, see Unattended installation
- UEFI Secure Boot. For more information on UEFI Secure Boot, see UEFI Secure Boot
NOTE:Driver packs are available for the deployment of Windows and Linux operating systems supported by Lifecycle Controller. Before deploying these operating systems, make sure that Lifecycle Controller is updated with the latest driver packs. You can download the latest drivers pack from
Dell Support page.
NOTE: When drivers are mounted from driver pack using iDRAC/RACDM/WSMAN or other interfaces, you can not launch LC UI or it may not be available.
NOTE:FAT32 limits the size of a single file to 4 GB. If you are using a Windows image file that is more than 4 GB, split the file in to multiple files. For more information see the documentation available at
Docs.microsoft.com.
NOTE:UEFI environment doesn't support NTFS file format. USB Boot Media must be MBR disk with FAT32 filesystem.
Once a Lifecycle Controller job such as OS Deployment, System configuration job, etc is triggered, then no other LC job like BIOS config job is allowed to perform. Before initiating any LC job, please check the status using the command racadm getremoteservicesstatus. The LC Status output of the command must show Ready in order to proceed.
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