10 Important Information
Hyper-V Guest Operating System Installation Through DRAC/iDRAC May Fail
Description If you are installing either Windows Vista, Windows Server
2008, or Windows Server 2008 R2 guest operating system on a
system running Hyper-V with an operating system ISO image
remotely attached to the Dell Remote Access Controller
(DRAC) 4 or DRAC 5 virtual media, the installation may fail
displaying the following message:
A required CD/DVD drive device driver is
missing. If you have a driver floppy disk,
CD, DVD, or USB flash drive, please insert
it now.
Solution To resolve this issue, download the firmware version 1.61 for
DRAC 4 and 1.4.0 or later for DRAC 5 from support.dell.com.
Remote Network Connection May be Lost When Creating a Hyper-V Virtual Network
Description When you bind an external virtual network to a physical network
adapter, the remote network connections may be lost temporarily
during the virtual network creation process. The issue occurs if the
remote network connection to the Hyper-V host uses the physical
network adapter to which the new virtual network is bound.
Solution This feature is working as designed. In most cases, the remote
connection is automatically re-established. To resolve this issue, it is
recommended that you dedicate a specific network adapter in the
parent partition strictly for managing the system. You must not bind
the management network adapter to any Hyper-V virtual network.
Also, you must make remote connections, if any, to the parent
partition through the IP address of this management adapter.