Deployment Guide

ManualsBrandsDell ManualsActive System ManagerOpenManage Deployment Toolkit Version 5.4

Contents

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

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

DTKTORACADM................................................................................................................................................................ 7

Other Documents You May Need.......................................................................................................................................9

Other supporting documents you may need..................................................................................................................... 10

Accessing documents from Dell support site.................................................................................................................... 10

Contacting Dell.................................................................................................................................................................. 11

2 Pre-requisites and deployment...................................................................................... 12

Supported systems........................................................................................................................................................... 12

Supported operating systems........................................................................................................................................... 12

Supported BIOS Firmware versions.................................................................................................................................. 13

Prerequisites and requirements.........................................................................................................................................13

Installation prerequisites..............................................................................................................................................13

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

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

Other supporting tools and system files......................................................................................................................15

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

Deployment.......................................................................................................................................................................17

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

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

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

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

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...................................................................................................................23

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

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

System utilities and supported files For Linux.............................................................................................................25

SYSCFG equivalent RACADM commands..................................................................................................................26

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

Sample deployment configuration files for Windows.................................................................................................. 29

Sample deployment configuration files for Linux........................................................................................................ 29

Sample scripts for deployment on Windows system.................................................................................................. 30