Persistent Storage; Managed Persistent Storage - Dell External OEMR T710 Technical Manualbook

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4.12 Persistent Storage

T710 offers two types of persistent storage: managed (iDRAC6 Express/iDRAC6 Enterprise) and
unmanaged internal persistent storage.
One of the unmanaged ports is for an optional SD card and the other is for a USB key.
4.12.1

Managed Persistent Storage

iDRAC6 Express is a managed persistent storage space for server provisioning data. The base
iDRAC6 express consists of 1 GB flash, and the optional Vflash is an external SD card on the optional
iDRAC6 Enterprise. The optional vflash offers the hot-plug portability and increased storage capacity
benefits of SD while managed by the system.
iDRAC6 is currently configured to support the following applications:
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Unified Server Configurator Browser and System Services Module (SSM) (25 MB): the UEFI
browser provides a consistent graphical user interface for bare metal deployment and is ideal
for one-to-one deployment. The SSM supports automatic one-to-N deployment.
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Service Diagnostics (15 MB): formerly on the hard drive as the Utility Partition, this is a bootable
FAT16 partition for Service Diagnostics
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Deployment OS Embedded Linux (100 MB): storage space to hold Embedded Linux
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Online Diagnostics (35 MB): non-bootable FAT32 partition for Online Diagnostics.
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Deployment OS WinPE (200 MB): storage space to hold Windows Pre-installation Environment
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Driver Store (150 MB): holds all files required for OS deployment.
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iDRAC firmware (120 MB): holds the two most recent versions of iDRAC firmware
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Figure 16. Persistent Storage Block Diagram
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