iDRAC8 with Lifecycle Controller Version 2.75.75.75 Release Notes

Limitations

• Systems with iDRAC firmware version 2.65.65.65 installed do not have any real time functionality for the slow/full initialization operation on drives. Check the System Setup/BIOS (F2) for these operations.
• If Flex Address is enabled on Chassis Management Controllers (CMC), iDRAC and LC do not display the same MAC addresses. To view the chassis-assigned MAC address, use the iDRAC web interface or the CMC web interface. Go to General > Network Settings.
• Lifecycle Controller may go into an infinite loop when a network operation is tried with an incorrect NFS share name. Restart Lifecycle Controller, and retry the operation with the correct NFS share name details.
• If NPAR is enabled, LC might show unexpected behavior when configuring network settings. Disable NPAR option, and run the network setting configurations. To disable the NPAR option, go to System Setup > Device Setting.
• The process of retrieving IPv6 address from the DHCP server with VLAN connection takes a few minutes. Wait for a few minutes and check the Network Settings page to view the assigned IPv6 address.
• Deployment of Windows Server operating systems using LC may fail with one of the following messages:
  • Windows installation cannot continue because a required driver could not be installed.
  • Product key required
  • Windows cannot find the software license terms.

  This happens when the Windows setup copies the driver to the scratch space (X: drive) and the scratch space becomes full. To resolve this issue, do any of the following:

  • Remove all the installed add-on devices before starting the operating system installation. After the OS installation is complete, connect the add-on devices and manually install the remaining drivers using Dell Update Packages (DUPs).
  • To avoid physically removing the hardware, disable the PCle slots in the BIOS.
  • Increase scratch space size beyond 32 MB using DISM set-scratchspace command when creating customized deployment. For more details, see Microsoft's documentation.
• LC supports the following characters for username and password:

  Alphabets

  a-z, A-Z

  Numbers

  0-9

  Special characters

  - , _ , .

• If LC is open or running while you are updating iDRAC firmware using a tool other than LC, you may notice unexpected behavior. Use Lifecycle Controller after the firmware is successfully updated.
• If the iDRAC firmware update is interrupted, you may have to wait up to 30 minutes before attempting another firmware update.
• From LC UI, only Windows systems can be deployed by using software RAID controller.
• Firmware update is supported only for LAN on Motherboards (LoM), Network Daughter Cards (NDC), and network adapters from Broadcom, QLogic, and Intel, and some of the QLogic and Emulex fiber channel cards. For the list of supported fiber channel cards, see the LC 2.60.60.60 User’s Guide available at dell.com/idracmanuals.
• After the CPLD firmware is updated on modular systems, the firmware update date is displayed as 2000-01-01 on the View Current Versions page. The update date and time is displayed according to the time zone configured on the server.
• On some modular systems, after a firmware update, the Lifecycle Log displays the timestamp as 1999-12-31 instead of the date on which the firmware update was performed.
• While viewing the current hardware inventory, some properties related to devices installed in PowerEdge VRTX system are not displayed.
• LC can import and view an iDRAC license but cannot export or delete the iDRAC license. The iDRAC license can be deleted from iDRAC GUI.
• The iSCSI offload attribute can be enabled only on two of the four available ports. If a card, which has this attribute that is enabled on two of its ports, is replaced with another card that has the attribute that is enabled on the other two ports, an error occurs. The firmware does not allow the attribute to be set because it is already set on the other two ports.
• Windows operating systems support both the manual and unattended installation features. However, Lifecycle Controller supports the unattended installation feature for Windows and RHEL-7 operating systems only.
• VLAN Configuration is not supported on all vendor FC cards and the following Emulex cards.
  • Emulex OneConnect OCe14102-U1-D 2-port PCle 10 GbE CNA
  • Emulex OneConnect OCm14104-U1-D 4-port 10 GbE rNDC CNA
  • Emulex OneConnect OCm14102-U5-D 2-port 10 GbE Mezz CNA
  • Emulex OneConnect OCm14102-U4-D 2-port 10 GbE bNDC CNA
  • Emulex OneConnect OCe14102-N1-D 2-port PCle 10 GbE NIC
  • Emulex OneConnect OCm14104-N1-D 4-port 10 GbE rNDC CNA
  • Emulex OneConnect OCm14102-N5-D 2-port 10 GbE Mezz CNA
  • Emulex OneConnect OCm14102-N6-D 2-port 10 GbE bNDC CNA
• LC may display multiple drive names for some CDs or DVDs, such as the ones containing operating systems.
• Network operations such as Update, Export, or Import may take more time than expected. The delay may occur because the source or destination share is not reachable or does not exist, or due to other network issues.
• If the operating system selected for installation and the operating system on the media that are used are different, LC displays a warning message. However, while installing Windows operating system, the warning message appears only when the bit count (x86 or x64) of the operating system does not match. For example, if Windows Server 2008 x64 is selected for installation and Windows Server 2008 x86 media is used, the warning is displayed.
• LC does not support operating system deployment on Dell Precision Workstation R7920.
• When NPAR is enabled, the port numbers that are displayed on the LC Network Settings page (Settings > Network Settings) do not match the port numbers that are displayed on the Device Settings page (System Setup > Advanced Hardware Configuration > Device Settings).
• Lifecycle Controller supports operating system deployment on bootable devices (systems without a RAID controller) in the BIOS mode only.
• In the Spanish help page, the word encrypted is incorrectly translated as scripted in Step 3 operating system deployment.
• Operating system installation might fail if the server has only PCle NVMe SSD drives and if you have selected BIOS as boot mode. If server has both RAID and non-RAID hard disks (NVMe SSD), it displays the RAID configuration option. However, the non-RAID disks are not displayed on RAID configuration page.
• When you update the firmware on a Broadcom NetXtreme and QLogic BCM57xx and BCM57xxx (previously known as Broadcom NetXtreme ||) adapters, the following issue occurs: After installing the QLogic-specific firmware update package on the BCM57xx or BCM57xxx adapter family, the rollback version is not available if the previously installed firmware was provided by a legacy shared firmware update package. However, if the legacy shared firmware version is available as a rollback version for the Broadcom NetXtreme adapter, then the same version is available for the QLogic BCM57xx and BCM57xxx adapters.

  The issue occurs because separate firmware update packages are provided for the Broadcom NetXtreme adapters and QLogic BCM57xx and BCM57xxx adapters due to the acquisition of the Broadcom NetXtreme || cards by QLogic. Prior to the acquisition, a common shared firmware update package was provided.

• The following Intel cards do not support firmware rollback and may not display all the ports on the Comparison page while updating the firmware:
  • Intel Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X710 - Quad Port
  • Intel Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X710 - Dual Port
  • Intel Ethernet Converged Network Adapter XL710
  • Intel Ethernet 10G 4P X710/1350 rNDC
  • Intel Ethernet 10G 4P X710 SFP + rNDC
  • Intel Ethernet 10G 4P X710-k bNDC
  • Intel Ethernet 10G 2P X710-k bNDC
  • Intel Ethernet 40G 2P XL710 QSFP + rNDC
  • Intel Gigabit I350-t LOM
  • Intel Ethernet 10G X520 LOM
  • Intel Ethernet 10G 2P X550-t Adapter
• While installing the operating system on the previous generation PowerEdge servers by using LC UI, ensure that the virtual media is attached on the server before BIOS boot.
• On NANO operating system, you cannot install a firmware or driver DUP if it is in .exe format.
• During the RAID Configuration, on the Step 3 of 5: Select Physical Disk page, the scroll bar of Select Physical Pool table is not displayed. To view the scroll bar:
  • Hover your mouse pointer over the right edge of the table.
  • Press Tab until the table is selected.
  This issue is observed when you select the RAID level as 0, 5, 6, 10, 50, or 60.
• When using Internet Explorer or Google Chrome to access the HTML5 virtual console from a Windows operating system, the floating menu at the top of the window may not be displayed.