Dell POWEREDGE R710 Series Technical Manualbook

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook48Dell Management Console DVD: The Dell Management Console is a Web-based systems managementsoftware that enables you to discover and inventory devices on your network. It also provides advancedfunctions, such as health and performance monitoring of networked devices and patch managementcapabilities for Dell systems.Server Update Utility: In addition to the Systems Management Tools and Documentation and DellManagement Console DVDs, customers have the option to obtain Server Update Utility DVD. ThisDVD has an inventory tool for managing updates to firmware, BIOS and drivers for either Linux orWindows varieties.c. embedded server managementThe PowerEdge R710 implements circuitry for the next generation of Embedded Server Management. Itis Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) v2.0 compliant. The iDRAC6 (Integrated Dell RemoteAccess Controller) is responsible for acting as an interface between the host system and its managementsoftware and the periphery devices. These periphery devices consist of the PSUs, the storage backplane,integrated SAS HBA or PERC 6/i and control panel with semi-intelligent display.The iDRAC6 provides features for managing the server remotely or in data center lights-outenvironments.Advanced iDRAC features require the installation of the iDRAC6 Enterprise card.I. Unmanaged Persistent StorageThe unmanaged persistent storage consists of two ports:• one located on the control panel board• one located on the Internal SD ModuleThe port on the control panel is for an optional USB key and is located inside the chassis. Some of thepossible applications of the USB key are:• User custom boot and pre-boot OS for ease of deployment or diskless environments• USB license keys for software applications like eToken™ or Sentinel Hardware Keys• Storage of custom logs or scratch pad for portable user-defined information (not hot-pluggable)The Internal SD Module is dedicated for an SD Flash Card with embedded Hypervisor for virtualization.The SD Flash Card contains a bootable OS image for virtualized platforms.II. Lifecycle Controller/Unified Server ConfiguratorEmbedded management is comprised of several pieces which are very interdependent.• Lifecycle Controller• Unified Server Configurator• iDRAC6• vFLASHLifecycle controller is the hardware component that powers the embedded management features. It isintegrated and tamperproof storage for system-management tools and enablement utilities (firmware,drivers, etc.). It is flash partitioned to support multiple, future use cases.Dell Unified Server Configurator is a 1:1 user interface exposing utilities from Lifecycle Controller. Customerswill use this interface to configure hardware, update server, run diagnostics, or deploy the operatingsystem. This utility resides on Lifecycle Controller. To access the Unified Server Configurator, press key within 10 seconds of the Dell logo display during the system boot process. Current functionalityenabled by the Unified Server Configurator includes: