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Configuring vFlash SD Card and Managing vFlash Partitions

The vFlash SD card is a Secure Digital (SD) card that plugs into the optional iDRAC6 Enterprise card slot at the back of your system. It provides storage space and behaves like a common USB Flash Key device. It is the storage location for user-defined partition(s) that can be configured to be exposed to the system as a USB device and also used to create a bootable USB device. Depending on the emulation mode selected, the partitions will be exposed to the system as a floppy drive, and hard drive, or a CD/DVD drive. You can set any of these as a bootable device.

For information on how to install and remove the card from your system, see your system’s Hardware Owner’s Manual at support.dell.com/manuals.

The vFlash SD cards and standard SD cards are supported. A vFlash SD card refers to the card that supports the new enhanced vFlash features. A standard SD card refers to a normal off-the-shelf SD card that supports only limited vFlash features.

With vFlash SD card, you can create up to 16 partitions. You can provide a label name for the partition when you create it and can perform a range of operations to manage and use the partitions. A vFlash SD card can be of any size up to 8GB. Each partition size can be up to 4GB.

A standard SD card can be of any size but supports only one partition. The size of the partition is limited to 256MB. The label name for the partition is VFLASH by default.

NOTE: Ensure that you only insert a vFlash SD card or standard SD card in the iDRAC6 Enterprise card slot. If you insert a card in any other format (example, Multi- Media Card (MMC)), the following error message is displayed when you initialize the card: An error has occurred while initializing SD card.

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