Users Guide

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 and is 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 6.5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 operating systems, 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 are

installed.

NOTE: For deploying RHEL, use the Dell customized ISO.

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