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Rev. A00 December 2021 i DRAC9 Version 5.00.20.00 Release Notes Release Summary Topics: Previous Versions New and enhanced features Fixes Deprecated features Known issues — To be fixed in future relea...
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New and enhanced features i DRAC firmware Support for blocking CPLD DUP in staged updates. Hardware Support for LTO-9 tape drives. Support for the NVIDIA A100 80GB GPUs. Support for NVIDIA A10, A30, A...
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204477: Incorrect voltage value for Power Supply Unit. 198836: IDSDM sensor data missing from TSRs after an i DRAC firmware upgrade. 200447: Unable to send email alerts from idrac9. 207868: Subject Al...
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Known issues — To be fixed in future releases Hardware Table 1. CPU PPIN in Hardware inventory in IDRAC GUI shows as “Not Supported” Description CPU PPIN in Hardware inventory in IDRAC GUI shows as &q...
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Table 6. Crash capture displayed after firmware rollback Description After downgrading i DRAC firmware from version 5.00.00.00 to any previous versions, a Crashcapture with empty file names is display...
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Monitoring and alerting Table 11. PR7 messages for all devices logged in LC Description During an AC power cycle stress, random PR7 (New device detected) messages may get logged for devices such as CP...
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Table 16. Support Assist collection failing (continued) Systems All systems supported by this release. Affected Tracking number Table 17. After a warm reboot, LC logs display Disk Inserted Description...
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Table 21. Getting an error SWC0018 during OS installation (continued) Systems All systems supported by this release. Affected Tracking number Table 22. Boot mode error during OS deployment Description...
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Table 26. RACADM autocomplete action not working on First NVMe Target and Second NVMe Tgt (continued) Systems All systems supported by this release. Affected Tracking number Table 27. Service Validato...
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Table 32. Unable to create a recurring job after same job was completed (continued) Workaround Wait for ten minutes for the Task ID to be deleted. Systems All systems supported by this release. Affect...
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Table 38. LC logs display incorrect version change for disks Description After a disk firmware upgrade, LC logs may report it as a firmware downgrade with PR36 message. Workaround Restart the host sys...
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Table 43. v Media performance degraded with QLogic QL41000 (continued) Systems All systems supported by this release. Affected Tracking number Table 44. Degraded crash and boot log video quality Descr...
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Table 49. Webserver restarts after remote presence port number is updated (continued) Workaround N/A Systems All systems supported by this release. Affected Tracking number Important notes Authenticat...
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11. i DRAC GUI search output points to a GUI page where the search keywords are missing within the page. These are typical false positives like any other search engine that may be ignored. 12. If a si...
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3. For staged operations that require system reboot, after the system reboot is complete RLCE events for the operation may take up to 20 s depending on the system configuration. 4. A Redfish request t...
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14. Mellanox network adapters that are used in Power Edge MX740c and MX840c servers must be updated to version 14.23.10.20 or later, before updating the i DRAC firmware to version 4.xx or later. Autom...
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9. For enhanced security, keyboard interactive authentication is enabled on the i DRAC SSH Server. SSH clients now require keyboard interactive authentication before logging in a user in to i DRAC. St...
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Limitations Authentication 1. LC supports the following characters for username and password: Alphabets (a-z, A-Z) Numbers (0-9) Special characters (-, _, .) 2. If there are no slots available to add ...
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6. The "Discovered Servers" view of Group Manager may not show available i DRACs as available to onboard. Verify that the i DRACs are on the same link local network and not separated by a ro...
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10. Before performing any network operations, verify that the network is configured with the network cable connected. In some scenarios, a warning message may not be displayed but the operation may fa...
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Security 1. Cryptographic Erase operation is not supported for hot-plugged NVMe disks. Cold reboot (power cycle) the server before starting the operation. If the operation continues to fail, ensure th...
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2. Due to a limitation of Google Chrome browser, HTML5 virtual console intermittently displays the following error message: Chrome ran out of memory while trying to display the webpage. 3. When access...
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Power Edge R440 Power Edge R450 Power Edge R540 Power Edge R550 Power Edge R640 Power Edge R650 Power Edge R650xs Power Edge R740 Power Edge R740xd Power Edge R740xd2 Power Edge R750 Power Edge R750xa...
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Dell EMC XC Core XCXR2 Dell Precision 7920 Rack Dell Precision 7920 XL Rack Power Vault NX3200 Powervault R340 Dell Storage NX3330 OEMR R240 OEMR R250 OEMR R340 OEMR R350 OEMR R440 OEMR R450 OEMR R540...
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Win PE 5.0 64-bit Win PE 10 Microsoft Azure Stack HCI Linux RHEL 8.4 RHEL 7.9 SLES SLES 15 SP3 Ubuntu Ubuntu 20.04.3 VMware ESXi 7.0 U3 ESXi 6.7 U3 Supported web browsers Microsoft Internet Explorer 1...
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Secured Component Verification (SCV) Download the DRAC tools from the Drivers & downloads page for your system at https://www.dell.com/support. Before installing i DRAC tools from OM 9.5.0, you mu...
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Resources and support For more information about the features of this release, see the documentation for i DRAC 5.xx. Latest Release Notes To access the latest Release Notes for this version of i DRAC...
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Where to Get Help Dell EMC provides several online and telephone-based support and service options. Availability varies by country and product, and some services may not be available in your area. To ...
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