Users Guide

Operating system deployment

The OS Deployment feature allows you to deploy standard and custom operating systems on the managed system. You can also congure

RAID before installing the operating system if it is not already congured.

Lifecycle Controller allows deploying the operating system using the following options:

• Manual installation

• Unattended installation. For more information on unattended installation, see Unattended installation.

• UEFI Secure Boot. For more information on UEFI Secure Boot, see UEFI Secure Boot.

NOTE: Driver packs are available for the deployment of Windows and Linux operating systems supported by Lifecycle Controller.

Before deploying these operating systems, make sure that Lifecycle Controller is updated with the latest driver packs. You can

download the latest drivers pack from dell.com/support.

Topics:

• Installing an operating system

• Using the optional RAID conguration

• Conguring RAID using the operating system deployment wizard

• Unattended installation

• UEFI Secure Boot

• Driver access

• Installing an operating system on iSCSI LUN and FCoE LUN

• Post reboot scenarios

Installing an operating system

Before installing an operating system, make sure that the following prerequisites are met:

• Optical DVD drive, or a virtual media (ISO image) is connected virtually to a server.

• Software RAID or PowerEdge RAID controller is installed with the latest rmware, and at least two hard-disk drives are available for

creating the virtual disk. For information about the supported controllers and related rmware, see the operating system

documentation.

NOTE

: You can install the operating system on media such as Dual SD or PCIe SSD. However, RAID conguration is not

supported on these media.

• For installing an operating system in an unattended mode, make sure that you copy the required conguration le (autounattend.xml

for Windows and ks.cfg for RHEL 7) to a USB or network share.

NOTE

: PERC S110 and S130 controllers support only SATA disk drives for which a minimum of two hard-disk drives are required.

To install an operating system:

1 Start Lifecycle Controller. For more information, see Starting Lifecycle Controller.

2 In the left pane, click OS Deployment.

3 In the right pane, click Deploy OS and select one of the following:

• Congure RAID First — Click to congure a RAID connected to the server. For information about conguring a RAID, see Using

the optional RAID conguration.

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