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Introduction
Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit (DTK) includes a set of utilities, sample scripts, and sample configuration files to
deploy and configure your Dell system. You can use DTK to build script-based and RPM-based installation for deploying
a large number of systems reliably, without changing their current deployment processes. You can use DTK in a
Microsoft Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE) or a Linux environment.
What's New In This Release
• Using DTK utilities you can deploy the following operating systems:
– Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 (64-bit)
– Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8 (32-bit and 64-bit)
– SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 (64-bit)
– SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 (64-bit)
– Windows Server 2012 (64–bit)
• You can install DTK Linux RPM utilities on the following operating systems:
– Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 (64-bit)
– Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8 (32-bit and 64-bit)
– SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 (64-bit)
– SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 (64-bit)
• Support for Windows PE 4.0 (64-bit) for deploying Windows Server 2012 using W2K12INST.BAT script.
NOTE: For more information, see
Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit User's Guide
available at dell.com/
support/manuals.
• DTK tool support for Embedded Linux ISO image (64-bit).
• Improved syscfgperformance on Dell Power Edge yx2x (12G) systems and reduction in server provisioning time.
• Syscfg supports the following:
– Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) as SNMP trap destination. For more information, see
lancfgparams.
– BIOS configuration using XML file on Dell PowerEdge 12G systems. For more information, see --ix, --ox,
and --px.
• Raidcfg supports the following:
– Blinking and unblinking virtual disks and array disks. For more information, see Blinking And Unblinking
Virtual Disks and Blinking And Unblinking Array Disks.
– Enumerating virtual disk. For more information, see Enumerating Virtual Disks.
– Setting a virtual disk as bootable device. For more information, see Setting A Virtual Disk As Bootable
Virtual Disk.
– Setting virtual disk name. For more information, see Setting Virtual Disk Name.
– Listing global hot spares. For more information, see Assigning, Unassigning, And Listing Global Hot
Spares.
• Support for BIOS and RAID configurations in the following Dell PowerVault Network Attached Servers (NAS) :
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