Key Features; Starting Lifecycle Controller; Processors - Dell Precision 7920 Rack Owner's Manual

• Secure environment—By providing secure access to remote systems, administrators can perform critical management functions while
maintaining system and network security.
• Enhanced embedded management through Lifecycle Controller - Lifecycle Controller provides deployment and simplified serviceability
through Lifecycle Controller GUI for local deployment and remote services (Redfish, Racadm, and WS-Man) interfaces for remote
deployment integrated with Dell OpenManage Essentials and partner consoles.

Key features

The key features of Lifecycle Controller are:
• Provisioning - Entire pre-operating system configuration from a unified interface.
• Deploying - Simplified OS installation with the embedded drivers on Lifecycle Controller. Unattended installation mode is available for
Microsoft Windows and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 operating systems.
• Download drivers for OS installation from one of the following sources:
• downloads.Dell.com
• Dell Lifecycle Controller OS Driver Packs DVD for Windows and Linux
• Patching or updating - Operating system diagnostics, and reduced maintenance downtime with direct access to updates from
downloads.Dell.com. It simplifies firmware updates by maintaining a working version for rollback.
• Servicing - Continuous availability of diagnostics without depending on a hard drive. Ability to automatically update firmware, while
replacing components such as a storage controller, NIC, and power supply unit. Support for VLAN in network configuration.
• System erase - Deletes the system and storage-related data on selected components of a system. You can delete information
pertaining to BIOS, Lifecycle Controller logs, iDRAC settings, and storage components on the system. However, you cannot delete the
iDRAC license information.
• Security - Support local key encryption.
• Restoring the system - Back up the system profile, including RAID configuration, and restore the system to a previously known state.
Importing a system license, firmware rollback, and restoring system configuration if there is system board replacement.
• Easy Restore - Automatically restore hardware configuration and license information after a system board replacement
• SupportAssist Collection - Gathers all hardware and OS logs and inventory information required for technical support.
• Lifecycle Controller logs for troubleshooting.
• Hardware inventory - Provides information about the current and factory system configuration.

Starting Lifecycle Controller

To start Lifecycle Controller, restart the system and press <F10> during POST to select Lifecycle Controller from the list displayed. When
Lifecycle Controller is started for the first time, the Settings wizard is displayed which allows you to configure the language and network
settings.

Processors

The Precision 7920 Rack systems feature the Intel Xeon scalable processor family(Skylake-SP) offers versatility across diverse workloads.
These processors are designed for next-generation data centers running on, software defined infrastructure supercharged for efficiency,
performance, and agile services delivery across cloud-native and traditional applications. The Intel Xeon scalable processor family support
workloads for cloud, high-performance computing, networking, and also storage for data centers.
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