Dell OpenManage Enterprise-Modular Edition Version 2.10.10 for PowerEdge MX7000 Chassis Release Notes

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New and enhanced features

In this release (OME-Modular 2.10.10), a potential instability issue involving internal component communications within OME-Modular is resolved.

2.10.00

  • Support for Dell MX8116n Fabric Expander Module (FEM) and 100 GbE networking with Dell PowerSwitch Z9432F-ON as Fabric Switching Engine (FSE) in Full Switch mode.
  • Advanced (switch dependent) NPAR to assign VLANs per partition on 25G Broadcom quad-port NICs with new templates and profiles in Full Switch mode and SmartFabric mode.
  • Multi-Factor Authentication using DoD Common Access Card (CAC) and Personal Identity Verification (PIV) cards.
  • CloudIQ inventory and telemetry of member chassis in an MCM group.

2.00.00

  • Local RSA multi-factor authentication solution.
  • Secured Component Verification (SCV) for MX chassis.
  • Automatic installation and renewal of TLS certificates.
  • TLS 1.3 version
  • Back up or restore enhancements
    • HTTPS share to support backup or restore
    • Periodic and scheduled backups
    • Backup option on lead dashboard under Group Configuration drop-down
    • Security SSL certificates
  • Template or profile updates without changing assigned identities.
  • Sort or search options while editing template.
  • Alerts when an NTP address cannot be resolved.
  • Selecting one or more chassis, compute, or SAS IOM to extract troubleshooting logs simultaneously.
  • Storage-NVME/TCP Network Type option when creating a VLAN.
  • Minimum restriction on available data path VLANs .
  • Increased VLAN scaling in Full switch and SmartFabric mode.
  • Default uplink feature through OpenManage Network Integration UI.
  • VLAN stacking in Full swtich mode.

1.40.20

  • Apache log4j patch for CVE-2021-044228, CVE-2021-4104, CVE-2021-45046

1.40.00

  • Phased update order for OME-Modular 1.40.00 and later versions.
  • Backup and restore of chassis and network IOMs.
  • Enhanced backup and restore for management configuration recovery.
    • System configurations
    • Catalog baselines
    • Alert policies
    • SmartFabric
  • Enhanced validated stack creation.
  • SNMP v3 trap forwarding.
  • Adding devices to existing baseline.
  • Increased VLANs.
  • Security banner on the Login page.
  • Syncing OME-Modular firmware if there is any mismatch.

1.30.10

  • DC power

1.30.00

  • Group configuration option on the Home page in multi chassis environment.
  • Profiles menu to create, assign, edit, and redeploy profiles with identities separately from templates.
  • Editing templates.
  • Advanced license for:
    • Chassis telemetry for power, thermal, and fans
    • OpenID Connect Provider for delegated authentication
  • Redfish alert forwarding. For more information, see the penManage Enterprise Modular Edition RESTful API Guide.
  • Ethernet IOM switch replacement wizard for easy replacement of faulty fabric switches.
  • L2 Multicast in SmartFabric Services.
  • LCD enhancement using PIN entry to unlock emergency access to local actions such as chassis power off.
  • Reminder to select backup chassis.
  • Same SSO login session sharing in tabs and not counting against the limit on number of sessions.
  • Fabric creation progress banner.
  • OS10 DUP to be posted in the validated stack catalog.
  • Link to Release Notes from the info icon on the Compliance Report page.
  • Displaying pre-requisites and dependencies for components in compliance report.
  • Automatic restoration of configuration to Right Control Panel (RCP) on replacement. For more information, see the Dell PowerEdge MX7000 Enclosure Field Service Manual.
  • PowerEdge MX750c platform.

1.20.10

  • Quad-Port Ethernet adapters in up to five MX7000 chassis in a scalable fabric.
  • Up to 512 VLANs per fabric, 256 VLANs per server port, and up to 512 VLANs per uplink.
  • The category, "Unknown" in compliance reports for components that are not supported in catalogs.
  • Additional topologies for Fabric Expander Module connectivity.

1.20.00

  • Deploying templates on empty slots or slots that compute sleds occupy.
  • Reclaiming MAC identities after removing profiles that are associated with blade servers.
  • Synchronizing VLAN definitions of OME-Modular and OpenManage Enterprise.
  • Alert notifications when a chassis is onboarded.
  • Configuring Forward Error Correction (FEC) for SmartFabric.
  • Propagating VLANs without server reboot.
  • Deploying operating system using Boot to ISO after applying profile.
  • Enhancements to Uplink Failure Detection.
  • Enabling racadm connect to Brocade MXG610s.
  • Performing Hard Reset only on iDRAC instead of whole sled.
  • Setting Name field as the default sort order in device grids.
  • Enhanced alert pop-ups to appear on the upper right corner of the user interface.
  • New SmartFabric Uplink type—Ethernet - No Spanning Tree.
  • Reduction in alert volumes API to replace failed Ethernet switch Autodetection of Scalable Fabric expansion from one to two chassis.

1.10.10

  • Technical preview of transparent Ethernet uplink configuration.

1.10.00

  • Group management through LCD.
  • Assigning member chassis in MCM as backup chassis and promoting backup chassis as lead chassis.
  • Configuring hot spare for the chassis.
  • Accessing chassis using USB.
  • Customizing strings that are displayed on the chassis LCD.
  • Configuring network session inactivity timeout.
  • Extracting logs to a local drive on your system.
  • Downloading the Management Information Base (MIB) file to a local drive on your system.

1.00.10

1.00.01

  • Provides a unified management interface for compute, storage, and networking components.
  • Provides end-to-end life cycle management of all components.
  • Manages up to 10 chassis using a single interface—web or RESTful interface.
  • Manages fabric switch engines in SmartFabric Services mode across all chassis.

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