User's Manual

20 Choosing a Microsoft
®
Windows
®
PE-Based Deployment Method
Creating a Customized Bootable Windows PE CD
See "Running Deployment Scripts Using DTK and Microsoft
®
Windows
®
PE" for details on how to
create a customized version of a single Windows PE image that can work across all supported Dell
PowerEdge
™ systems. You must include Dell-customized drivers and instrumentation drivers into your
Windows PE CD-based operating system.
Complete Deployment Using DTK and Operating System Files From a CD Bootable Media
After the customized version of the bootable Windows PE CD is created, IT administrators can take
advantage of the sample task-oriented scripts provided in DTK to automate the whole deployment
process. For this purely CD-based deployment, it is necessary to add the operating system installation
files on the CD media. After the configuration is completed using DTK tools, the operating system can
be installed using its native installer in unattended mode.
CD-Based Local Deployment With Networking Enabled
NOTE: The DTK network-based deployment is not supported from mapped Novell
®
NetWare
®
systems.
This method provides greater flexibility and is highly recommended in large deployments. The
prerequisites are the availability of network bandwidth and that all target systems are connected to the
network. A brief description of the tasks for this method is given below.
Bootable Windows PE CD With Networking Enabled
This process includes:
• Creating a bootable Windows PE CD with the appropriate network drivers. This step enables
networking services to start, get an IP address, and bring the target system into a functioning network.
NOTE: See "Running Deployment Scripts Using DTK and Microsoft
®
Windows
®
PE" for details on how to
create a customized version of a single Windows PE bootable CD that works across all Dell supported
PowerEdge Servers and provides an underlying networking stack.
• Creating scripts to automatically map to a predefined network share.
• Accessing scripts, configuration files, and operating system installation files from the network.
Preparing and Populating the Network Share
This process includes:
• Creating a network share on a system that is always available over the network for the target systems to
be deployed
• Ensuring that a large amount of space is available for storing operating system installation files
• Ensuring that proper permissions are assigned to this share so that the target systems can read files
from and write files to the share