Quick Reference Guide

Introduction 9
Introduction
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 in This Release
This release of DTK includes support for:
• New SYSCFG options for BIOS configuration
• New RAIDCFG options
• Support for new Dell PowerEdge systems
• Support for the PERC 6/i Integrated RAID controller for modular systems
NOTE: For the list of PowerEdge systems supported for this version of DTK,
see the readme.txt file in the root folder, or the Dell Systems Software Support
Matrix on the Dell Systems Management Tools and Documentation DVD or on
the Dell Support website at support.dell.com.
Requirements
For Windows PE, the DTK utilities support Windows PE version 2005 (created
using 32-bit version of Microsoft Windows Server
®
2003, Service Pack 1 [SP1])
and Windows PE 2.0 (created using 32-bit version built on the Windows
Vista
®
kernel).
NOTE: DTK utilities do not support Windows PE created with any 64-bit version of
Microsoft Windows Server 2003.
For embedded Linux, the DTK utilities can be run on Red Hat
®
Enterprise
Linux
®
(version 4, update 4) 32-bit.