Deployment Guide

Deployment
DTK offers a complete set of utilities, sample scripts, and RPM packages that can be used to automate deployment on large
numbers of Dell systems. This guide is designed to help you through some of the most basic planning considerations, logistical
preparations, and deployment procedures to get you started using DTK to deploy Dell systems.
A well-thought-out deployment plan is critical to the success of your deployment effort and includes the following considerations:
• Assessing your existing IT environment
• Selecting an operating system
• Selecting the optimum Dell OpenManage systems management software configuration for your system
• Choosing a deployment method
DTK is flexible enough to fit into almost any deployment plan.
DTK components can be used in many different ways to assist IT staff in deploying Dell systems in large numbers. Because all the
tools and scripts are task-oriented, many of them can be used separately to perform a specific task on many systems or collectively
to perform many tasks on many systems at once. For information on the deployment methods, see Running The Deployment
Scripts.
Deployment matrix for PowerEdge FD332
DTK supports multiple storage sleds (PowerEdge FD332)-to-compute sled (half-width, quarter-width, or full-width sleds, to which
the storage sleds are mapped) mapping. The storage sleds and the storage controller modules in a PowerEdge FD332 are mapped
to the compute sleds in the enclosure. The enclosures can be in either a split-mode or joint-mode configuration. For more details,
see the see the Dell PowerEdge FD332 Owner’s Manual at dell.com/support/home.
Table 7. Installation and configuration matrix
Compute sled to PowerEdge FD332
setup
Operating
system
installation
support
SYSCFG/RAIDCFG
configuration support
Description
Compute sled without PERC + 1
PowerEdge FD332 with a single PERC
mapped to the compute sled
Yes Yes NA
Compute sled with PERC + 1 PowerEdge
FD332 with a single PERC mapped to the
compute sled + single boot VD
Yes Yes PERC controller with boot VD must be
the first in the boot order list of the
compute sled BIOS
Compute sled without PERC + 1
PowerEdge FD332 with a dual PERC
mapped to a compute sled (joint mode)
Yes Yes NA
Compute sled without PERC + 1
PowerEdge FD332 with a dual PERC
mapped to the compute sled (split mode) +
single boot VD
Yes Yes PERC controller with boot VD must be
the first in the boot order list of the
compute sled BIOS
Compute sleds without PERC + 1
PowerEdge FD332 with a dual PERC
mapped to the two compute sleds (split
mode, one boot VD per compute sled)
Yes Yes PERC controller with boot VD must be
the first in the boot order list of the
compute sled BIOS
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