Dell M610 manual Feature Description

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ M610 Technical Guidebook

II. Lifecycle Controller / Unified Server Configurator

Embedded management is comprised of several pieces which are very interdependent.

Lifecycle Controller

Unified Server Configurator

iDRAC6

vFLASH

Lifecycle controller is the hardware component that powers the embedded management features. It is integrated 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. Customers will use this interface to configure hardware, update server, run diagnostics, or deploy the operating system. This utility resides on Lifecycle Controller. To access the Unified Server Configurator, press <F10> key within 10 seconds of the Dell logo display during the system boot process. Current functionality enabled by the Unified Server Configurator includes:

feature

description

 

 

Faster O/S

Drivers and the installation utility are embedded on system, so no need to

Installation

scour DELL.COM

 

 

Faster System Updates

Integration with Dell support automatically directed to latest versions of

the Unified Server Configurator

 

 

 

More Comprehensive

Diagnostic utilities are embedded on system

Diagnostics

 

 

 

Simplified Hardware

Detects RAID controller and allows user to configure virtual disk and

choose virtual disk as boot device, eliminating the need to launch a

Configuration

separate utility

 

 

 

III. iDRAC6 Express/Enterprise

For the M610, all features of both the iDRAC6 Express and Enterprise are included with each server. The iDRAC6 is a managed persistent storage space for server provisioning data and consists of 1GB flash and VFlash. VFlash offers the hot-plug portability and increased storage capacity benefits of SD while still being managed by the system. iDRAC6 is currently partitioned to support the following applications:

Unified Server Configurator Browser and System Services Module (SSM) (25MB): The Unified

Server Configurator browser provides a consistent graphical user interface for bare metal deployment and is ideal for 1-to-1 deployment. The SSM supports automatic 1-to-N deployment

Service Diagnostics (15MB): Formerly on the hard drive as the Utility Partition, this is a bootable

FAT16 partition for Service Diagnostics

Deployment OS Embedded Linux (100MB): Storage space to hold embedded Linux

Deployment OS WinPE (200MB): Storage space to hold Windows Preinstallation Environment

Driver Store (150MB): Holds all files required for OS deployment

iDRAC6 firmware (120MB): Holds the two most recent versions of iDRAC6 firmware

Firmware Images (160MB): Holds the two most recent versions of BIOS, RAID, embedded

NIC, power supplies, and hard drive firmware. This partition also holds the BIOS and option ROM configuration data

Life Cycle Log (2MB): Stores initial factory configuration as well as all detectable hardware and firmware changes to the server since its deployment. The Life Cycle Log is stored on the BMC SPI flash

RJ-45 Management 10/100Mbps Ethernet port

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