Dell PowerEdge R630 Owner's Manual

Acquiring Licenses

Use any of the following methods to acquire the licenses:

• E-mail — License is attached to an email that is sent after requesting it from the technical support center.

• Self-Service Portal — A link to the Self-Service Portal is available from iDRAC. Click this link to open the licensing Self-Service Portal on the internet. Currently, you can use the License Self-Service Portal to retrieve licenses that were purchased with the server. You must contact the sales representative or technical support to buy a new or upgrade license. For more information, see the online help for the self-service portal page.

• Point-of-Sale — License is acquired while placing the order for a system.

New Features

The following list contains the key new features available on iDRAC8:

• iDRAC Direct — Securely connect directly to iDRACWeb UI via USB Cable in front of the server.

• iDRAC Direct (USB) — Offers the convenience of USB keys to install new hardware configurations to Dell 13G servers.

• iDRAC Quick Sync — This feature enables at-the-server management with a Near Field Communication (NFC)-enabled mobile device. Customers may view inventory and monitoring information and configure basic iDRAC settings using a mobile device. This feature is only available on the PowerEdge R630, R730, and R730XD.

• Real-Time Storage Configuration — Configure storage real-time through the iDRACUI.

• Agent-Free SAS Monitoring and PCIe-SSD Monitoring — Monitor 12Gb SAS and PCIe-SSD storage via iDRAC without any OS agents.

• Easy Restore — Automatically restore hardware configuration and license information after a system board replacement.

• Tech Support Report — Gathers all hardware and OS logs and inventory information required for technical support.

• Agent-Free Performance Monitoring — Monitor basic memory, CPU, and I/O performance metrics through iDRAC.

Configurable Temperature and Power Thresholds

• This feature provides capability to modify default warning thresholds for temperature and power consumption warning thresholds from GUI , RACADM,  WSMAN, OMSA, and IPMI tool.

• Applicable to both lower and upper warning thresholds for temperature sensors and warning threshold for power consumption reading.

iDRAC Robustness and Self-Healing

• Implemented as a service recovery mechanism, which is responsible for the following tasks:

  • Detects memory leaks in a service and restarts that service.

  • Detects a terminated service and restarts it.

  • Detects a frozen service and restarts it.

  • Detects a service that runs with less number of threads and restarts it.

• The feature is not visible to the user. The user cannot interact with this feature nor change its configuration.

Tech Support Report

• Requires minimal interaction and users can export the report to the management station (local), Common Internet File System (CIFS), or Network File Share (NFS).

• The report is generated in the standard ZIP format. The report contains information that is similar to the information available in the DSET report such as:

  • Hardware inventory for all components.

  • System, Lifecycle Controller, and component attributes.

  • Operating system and application information.

  • Active Lifecycle Controller logs (archived entries are not included).

  • PCIe SSD logs.

  • Storage controller logs.