With the Enterprise Licence installed on the iDrac8 you have the option to mount ISOs and boot to them during POST. This is a terrific feature for those of you who want to remotely administer your machines – completely hands free. That’s right, throw your new systems in a lights out datacenter and kiss burning
The other day I ran across a gentleman who was trying to install brand new SSDs into his VRTX chassis. He was getting an error telling him that the status of the SSD was in a Blocked state. In fact, after remoting into the CMC, all his SSDs were in a blocked state: Wow, I
Note: This blog post is for Dell PowerEdge 12G systems. Here is the 11G how to: http://crtech.tips/lifecycle-controller-hanging-during-post/ Sometimes a Dell PowerEdge 12G system can get caught in POST. This is caused by a LifeCycle Controller glitch. You’ll know you are caught when you see “Intializing firmware interfaces…” for 30+ minutes. I have seen this happen when you boot
