Users Guide

ManualsBrandsDell ManualsActive System ManagerOpenManage Deployment Toolkit Version 5.2

Contents

1 Introduction...........................................................................................................6

What is new in this release....................................................................................................................6

Other Documents You May Need.........................................................................................................7

Other supporting documents you may need.......................................................................................7

Accessing documents from Dell support site......................................................................................8

Contacting Dell..................................................................................................................................... 8

2 Prerequisites and deployment......................................................................... 10

Supported systems..............................................................................................................................10

Supported operating systems.............................................................................................................10

Supported BIOS Firmware versions.....................................................................................................11

Prerequisites and requirements...........................................................................................................11

Installation prerequisites................................................................................................................ 11

Deployment prerequisites............................................................................................................. 12

Drivers............................................................................................................................................ 13

Other supporting tools and system files.......................................................................................13

Deploying operating systems..............................................................................................................15

Deployment......................................................................................................................................... 15

Deployment matrix for PowerEdge FD332........................................................................................ 16

Deployment matrix..............................................................................................................................18

DTK deployment overview..................................................................................................................19

Preparing for deployment............................................................................................................. 19

Deployment...................................................................................................................................20

Configuring a source system .............................................................................................................20

RAC and BIOS configuration.........................................................................................................21

How to obtain Dell utility partition files........................................................................................ 21

3 Downloading DTK.............................................................................................. 22

Extracting DTK components on systems running windows............................................................. 22

DTK components on systems running windows......................................................................... 22

Extracting DTK components on systems running Linux................................................................... 23

DTK components on the mounted media................................................................................... 23

Directory structure on the target system.....................................................................................24

DTK contents.......................................................................................................................................24

System utilities and supported files for windows.........................................................................24

System utilities and supported files For Linux..............................................................................26

SYSCFG equivalent RACADM commands.................................................................................... 27

Sample scripts for deployment...........................................................................................................29