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Dell™ PowerEdge™ M610 Technical Guidebook

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II. Lifecycle Controller / Uniﬁed Server Conﬁgurator

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

 •LifecycleController

 •UniedServerCongurator

 •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UniedServerCongurator,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

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

scour DELL.COM

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Integration with Dell support automatically directed to latest versions of

the Unied Server Congurator

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Diagnostic utilities are embedded on system

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Detects RAID controller and allows user to congure virtual disk and

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

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 oers 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:

 •UniedServerConguratorBrowserandSystemServicesModule(SSM)(25MB):TheUnied

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lesrequiredforOSdeployment

 •iDRAC6rmware(120MB):HoldsthetwomostrecentversionsofiDRAC6rmware

 •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conguration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