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• 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 and the Operating system deployment is

only supported for deploying operating systems on multiple servers.

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

Where

OS Name

is any of the following:

• Windows operating systems

• ESXi

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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 and 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 is installed.

During deployment the following packages are installed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux repository:

• @base

• @client-mgmt-tools

• @console-internet

• @core

• @debugging

• @directory-client

• @hardware-monitoring

• @java-platform

• @large-systems

• @network-file-system-client

• @performance

• @perl-runtime

• @server-platform

• @server-policy

• pax

• python-dmidecode

• oddjob

• sgpio