Users Guide

ManualsBrandsDell ManualsActive System ManagerOpenManage Deployment Toolkit Version 5.3

Contents

1 Introduction........................................................................................................... 7

What is new in this release.................................................................................................................... 7

Other Documents You May Need........................................................................................................ 8

Other supporting documents you may need...................................................................................... 8

Accessing documents from Dell support site......................................................................................9

Contacting Dell......................................................................................................................................9

2 Prerequisites and deployment..........................................................................11

Supported systems...............................................................................................................................11

Supported operating systems..............................................................................................................11

Supported BIOS Firmware versions.................................................................................................... 12

Prerequisites and requirements.......................................................................................................... 12

Installation prerequisites................................................................................................................12

Deployment prerequisites............................................................................................................. 13

Drivers............................................................................................................................................ 14

Other supporting tools and system files.......................................................................................14

Deploying operating systems..............................................................................................................16

Deployment......................................................................................................................................... 16

Deployment matrix for PowerEdge FD332.........................................................................................17

Deployment matrix..............................................................................................................................19

DTK deployment overview................................................................................................................. 20

Preparing for deployment.............................................................................................................20

Deployment................................................................................................................................... 21

Configuring a source system ............................................................................................................. 21

RAC and BIOS configuration.........................................................................................................22

How to obtain Dell utility partition files........................................................................................22

3 Downloading DTK.............................................................................................. 23

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

DTK components on systems running windows......................................................................... 23

Extracting DTK components on systems running Linux................................................................... 24

DTK components on the mounted media...................................................................................24

Directory structure on the target system..................................................................................... 25

DTK contents.......................................................................................................................................25

System utilities and supported files for windows.........................................................................25

System utilities and supported files For Linux.............................................................................. 27

SYSCFG equivalent RACADM commands.................................................................................... 28

Sample scripts for deployment........................................................................................................... 31