Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager

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Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration for Configuration Manager (DLCI) provides agent-free, OS and hypervisor agnostic configuration and update of Dell 12^th and 11^th generation PowerEdge servers.  Through automated  processes, IT Administrators can reduce steps, time, and cost in configuring servers from a bare-metal state and preparing remote 1-to-Many operating system (OS) deployment.

What's New in 3.2

•  Support for Dell’s 13th generation of PowerEdge servers.
•  Support for viewing, and configuring Fibre Channel(FC) host bus adapters (HBA) for servers
•  Support for configuring Storage area network (SAN) boot attributes
•  Support for exporting the system profiles before and after hardware configuration
•  Compare the applied FC HBA profiles against the systems in a collection and generate comparison reports
•  Support for ESXi 5.5 Update 3 and ESXi 6.0 Update 1
•  Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.2

Business Benefits

• Leverage your existing systems management investment to accurately deploy operating systems on Dell servers and blades
• Save a trip to the office by remotely deploying a variety of Windows Server operating systems, globally
• Mitigate the potential for human errors through use of an easy-to-use GUI-based tool that automates the manual tasks of configuring hardware with platform/OS-appropriate drivers 
• Improve Data Center efficiency and cost-control simply by maintaining standard sets of  configurations that will help boost workforce productivity 
• Capture a single pane view of your firmware and hardware inventory; it’s a convenient one-step process 
• Quickly replicate your best “spec system”  hardware configuration across multiple servers 
• Configure and validate server security to keep your systems, and your business, running smoothly