Lifecycle Controller User's Guide

Repurpose or retire system

You can erase selective system information by using the Lifecycle Controller Repurpose or Retire System option. This feature permanently deletes server and storage-related data on selected components of a server before you repurpose or retire a server. The selected components are then returned to their default state.

NOTE:The Repurpose or Retire System option resets the state of the inventory collection to Enabled, and then permanently deletes the iDRAC and BIOS configuration information, factory-shipped inventory, configurations, Lifecycle Log information (historical data and work notes), non-volatile (NV) cache, NVDIMM, operating system driver packs, disk erase, and diagnostics. Click on this link for more details on System erase - Data Security by using the System Erase feature of iDRAC9 on PowerEdge servers . During this operation, it deletes the hardware and software inventory data related to the system. However, they are recreated during the next restart of the server. It also deletes the firmware and previous versions, which will not be available for firmware rollback

NOTE:

The Repurpose or Retire System feature does not allow deletion of iDRAC-related license information.
PERC NV cache is displayed only if PERC card is available on the server.

Use this feature to delete any sensitive data and configuration-related information when you need to:

Retire a managed system.

Reuse a managed system for a different application.

NOTE:

If BIOS (reset default and clear NVRAM) is selected, then the system powers off the second time after LC wipe is complete.
After the system is repurposed or retired, the Lifecycle controller UI logs LC log event HWC0017: Unable to start Lifecycle Controller because Lifecycle Controller cannot communicate with iDRAC. Because of internal issues this error code is expected when iDRAC is not ready."

Lifecycle Controller User's Guide

Repurpose or retire system

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