Dell Openmanage Deployment Toolkit 5.0.
Release Type and Definition Deployment ToolKit • The Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit (DTK) includes a set of utilities, scripts, and sample configuration files that to deploy and your Dell system. You can use DTK to build script-based and RPM-based installation for deploying large number of systems on a preoperating system environment in a reliable way, without changing their current deployment processes.
• Automated Deployment Services (ADS) (including setting up of RIS and ADS environments), or any other third-party deployment system or tool. • Working knowledge of Windows Deployment Services (WDS) or any other third-party deployment system or tool for Windows PE.
What’s New Note: DTK version 5.0.1 is supported only on the following systems: • Dell PowerEdge R730 • PowerEdge R730xd • PowerEdge R630 • PowerEdge T630 • Dell Precision R7910 The new features for this release include: • • • DTK supports installation of following operating system on Dell Precision R7910: o BIOS mode: Windows 7 (32-bit) using Windows PE 3.0(32-bit), Windows 7 (64-bit) using Windows PE 4.0(64-bit), and Windows 8.1 (64-bit) using Windows PE 5.
• The "--devseq" option is present only if you have an available, bootable hard-disk partition. If this option is present in the configuration file, but not present on your system, you will receive a usage error. • It is required to perform a warm reboot after applying the syscfg settings changes on Dell PowerEdge 12G systems. • If you perform operations that change the "--redmem" option, reboot your system immediately. It is applicable to both command line and "--infile" usage.
• On Windows PE 3.0, when you run the syscfg command to list all available options, if you press CTR + C before the command fully executes, an error message is displayed. Click OK. You can ignore the message. • The option for "powerctl," which is "softshutdown," does not work on Windows PE.
Before extracting Deployment Toolkit components, ensure that you have: • The DTK ISO image available at support.dell.com. • A workstation that has • 512 MB RAM • A writable CD drive and CD-writing software (optional) • Network access • A minimum BIOS version is recommended on some of the platforms for all the DTK options to work properly. In general, it is a good practice to use the latest ("n") version of BIOS firmware or the "n-1" version that is available on "support.dell.com.
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