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USC and USC-LCE Features

This section gives a brief description of the Unified Server Configurator

(USC) and Unified Server Configurator-Lifecycle Controller Enabled 

(USC-LCE) features.

USC and USC-LCE Enabled Common Features

Operating System Deployment

The OS Deployment wizard assists you in installing an operating system on

your system.

USC does not provide a local operating system drivers repository that is

required for operating system installation. Since USC does not support single

Dell Update Package

(DUP) update, use one the following methods to access

the driver packages:

• Provide the path to the catalog file that is located at

ftp.dell.com, or the

local FTP with all the

DUPs

• Provide the path to the catalog file that is located on the USB mass storage

device or the

Dell Server Updates DVD

with all the DUPs.

USC-LCE provides a local repository for drivers that is required for operating

system installation, depending on the operating system you are installing.

The OS Deployment wizard extracts these drivers and copies them to a

staging directory. For supported Microsoft

Windows

operating systems, these

extracted drivers are installed during the operating system installation. For

Red Hat Linux Enterprise Linux version 4.8, manually install the extracted

drivers after the operating system installation is complete. However, for Red

Hat Enterprise Linux version 5.5, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server version 10

SP3, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server version 11 SP1 and later installs, the

extracted drivers are installed during the operating system installation.

Although, USC-LCE comes with embedded drivers that are factory installed,

there may be more current drivers available. You must run the Platform

Update wizard to ensure that you have the most current drivers before

installing the operating system.

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