Owner's Manual

52 Using The Configuration Utility
• Enables you to apply a NIC or CNA profile to a set of target systems.
• Makes changes to the RAID configuration.
• Enables you to apply an iDRAC profile to a set of target systems.
• Enables you to select the advertisement and the operating system to be
deployed.
• Enables you to select the bootable media to deploy the operating system.
Deploying Operating Systems
You can deploy Windows and non-Windows operating systems on a
collection.
During the operating system deployment, the status and progress of
installation is displayed in the DLCI task viewer.
After installing the operating system, the system is added to a collection
identified as Managed Dell Lifecycle Controller Servers <OS Name>.
Where OS Name is any of the following:
• Windows operating systems
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
•ESXi
NOTE: After deploying non-windows operating systems, the service tag of the
system name is displayed as hostname in Configuration Manager console.
ESXi installation is supported only on a Hard disk for this release.
For both ESXi and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the operating system is
installed on the first disk with default configuration.
For Red Hat Enterprise Linux the following are set:
• Language is set to US
• Keyboard is set to US (U.S. English)
• By default, Time zone is set to America, New York
For deploying the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 operating system, DLCI
requires all the drivers on the given ISO. DLCI assumes that all the drivers are
available on the given ISO for the given platform. Only packages available in
the Red Hat Enterprise Linux repository are installed.
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