Dell iDRAC8 manual Resetting USB, Mapping Virtual Drive

If Virtual Media is connected, this information is displayed. If Virtual Media is not connected, the “Virtual Media is not connected” message is displayed.

If the Virtual Media is launched without using the Virtual Console, then the Virtual Media section is displayed as a dialog box. It provides information about the mapped devices.

Resetting USB

To reset the USB device:

1.In the Virtual Console viewer, click Tools → Stats. The Stats window is displayed.

2.Under Virtual Media, click USB Reset.

A message is displayed warning the user that resetting the USB connection can affect all the input to the target device including Virtual Media, keyboard, and mouse.

3.Click Yes.

The USB is reset.

NOTE: iDRAC Virtual Media does not terminate even after you log out of iDRAC Web interface session.

Mapping Virtual Drive

To map the virtual drive:

NOTE: While using ActiveX-based Virtual Media, you must have administrative privileges to map an operating system DVD or a USB flash drive (that is connected to the management station.) To map the drives, launch IE as an administrator or add the iDRAC IP address to the list of trusted sites.

1.To establish a Virtual Media session, from the Virtual Media menu, click Connect Virtual Media.

For each device available for mapping from the host server, a menu item appears under the Virtual Media menu. The menu item is named according to the device type such as:

•Map CD/DVD

•Map Removable Disk

•Map Floppy Disk

NOTE: The Map Floppy Disk menu item appears on the list if the Floppy Emulation option is enabled on the Attached Media page. When Floppy Emulation is enabled, Map Removable Disk is replaced with Map Floppy Disk.

The Map DVD/CD option can be used for ISO files and the Map Removable Disk option can be used for images.

2.Click the device type that you want to map.

NOTE: The active session displays if a Virtual Media session is currently active from the current Web interface session, from another Web interface session, or from VMCLI.

3.In the Drive/Image File field, select the device from the drop-down list.

The list contains all the available (unmapped) devices that you can map (CD/DVD, Removable Disk, Floppy Drive) and image file types that you can map (ISO or IMG). The image files are located in the default image file directory (typically the user’s desktop). If the device is not available in the drop- down list, click Browse to specify the device.

The correct file type for CD/DVD is ISO and for removable disk and floppy disk it is IMG.

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