Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration for SC2012 VMM Help

Update groups

This page allows you to create and maintain the server groups. The appliance recognizes and provides specialized update strategies for special scenarios.

Example for special scenario is update on Windows Server Failover Clusters. While updating Windows Server Failover Clusters, availability of all failover services must be ensured. And for this kind of update, Windows Server 2012 has developed Cluster Aware Updating feature that ensures the clustering services are failed over prior to applying updates and the services are restored after the updates are successfully applied. Such clusters may require the firmware versions at the same level.

The appliance provides customized or optimized update strategies for different parts of the environment. For example, in an SCVMM environment there are two host groups – one host group hosting database servers, and another hosting web application servers (using QLogic or Broadcom NICs); you can create an update strategy such that the storage updates to database server group, and NIC updates to web application servers host group.