Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC Server Deployment Pack Version 4.0 for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager User's Guide
- Introduction
- Before using Configuration Manager
- Using the Dell EMC Server Deployment Pack on systems running System Center Configuration Manager, 2012 SP2, 2012 R2 SP1, 2012 R2, 2012 SP1, or 2012
- Dell Driver CAB files
- Importing Dell Driver CAB files for creating boot image
- Upgrading Dell Driver CAB files
- Customizing boot image and deploying OS through Dell Driver CAB files
- Creating a boot image for deploying PowerEdge servers
- Enabling command prompt for debugging boot images
- Distributing content and updating distribution points
- Configuring the task sequence steps to apply operating system image and driver package
- Deploying a task sequence
- Dell Deployment ToolKit
- Importing a DTK package for hardware configuration and OS deployment
- Upgrading a DTK package
- Customizing boot image, configuring hardware and deploying OS through DTK
- System Lockdown Mode
- Configuring the hardware components of your server
- Configuring task sequence actions
- Using the Array Builder
- Creating task sequences for RAID, DRAC, and iDRAC
- Importing Dell Server Driver Packages
- Dell Driver CAB files
- Troubleshooting
- Command line options
- Other Dell documents you might need
Table 1. Compatible operating systems supported by Dell EMC Server Deployment Pack for WinPE
Configuration Manager Version WinPE Version Operating system Deployment
Configuration Manager 2012 3.0
● Windows Server 2008
● Windows Server 2008 R2
Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 4.0
● Windows Server 2008 R2*
● Windows Server 2012
Configuration Manager 2012 R2 5.0
● Windows Server 2008 R2*
● Windows Server 2012
● Windows Server 2012 R2
Configuration Manager 2012 R2
SP1
5.0
● Windows Server 2008 R2*
● Windows Server 2012
● Windows Server 2012 R2
Configuration Manager 2012 SP2 5.0
● Windows Server 2008 R2*
● Windows Server 2012
● Windows Server 2012 R2
System Center Configuration
Manager
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● Windows Server 2012 R2
● Windows Server 2016
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* — For Windows Server 2008 R2 support, visit support.microsoft.com/kb/2853726.
Distributed Configuration Manager setups on multiple
primary site servers
You can install DSDP on multiple primary site servers. While installing DSDP on the primary site servers, ensure that the versions
of DTK and OpenManage used in the CAS and all primary site servers are the same.
Following are the limitations of the installation.
● If DSDP is uninstalled on primary site server 1 where you have imported DTK, you cannot use the existing boot images in the
primary site server 2 or create boot images in it. Reimport DTK from the primary site server 2 to create the boot images. The
site server where DTK is first imported, serves as the source for the boot image driver.
● You can import the OpenManage Driver for a particular server model only on one primary site server. This server serves as
the OM Driver source for other primary site servers.
● If two primary site servers exist, four Dell packages are displayed in the Configuration Manager console. Of the four
packages, two are the original source and the remaining two are the instances from the second primary site.
Introduction
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