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Introduction
Overview
Dell™ OpenManage™ Deployment Toolkit (DTK) includes a set of utilities for configuring and
deploying Dell PowerEdge™ systems. DTK is designed for customers who need to build scripted
installations in order to deploy large numbers of systems in a reliable fashion without having to
dramatically change their current deployment processes.
DTK consists of command line utilities to configure various system features, sample scripts to
perform common deployment tasks, and documentation for each utility. You can use DTK in a
Microsoft
®
Windows
®
Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE) or a Linux environment.
What’s New
Deployment Toolkit version 1.0 was the first release of a Dell-designed and tested suite of utilities,
sample script files, and best practices models to use for configuring and deploying Dell systems in a
customized, predictable, and unattended manner. DTK versions 1.1, 1.3, and 1.4 included added
support and additional utility options. DTK version 2.0 was the first release with flexibility to use
DTK in either a Windows PE or an embedded Linux environment.
The new features for DTK version 2.3 include:
• Support for systems to include PowerEdge 2970 systems
• Support for installing Red Hat
®
Enterprise Linux
®
Server version 5 (32- and 64-bit)
• A new utility partition packaging support that includes a single Dell utility partition image with
the DTK tools
• Support for RAID replication feature
• Support for Dell Update Packages (DUP) in pre-operating system embedded Linux environment
Requirements
For Windows PE, the DTK utilities support Windows PE version 2005 (released with
Microsoft Windows Server
®
2003, Service Pack 1 [SP1]).
For embedded Linux, the DTK utilities can be run on
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (version 4, update 4)
32-bit.