Deployment Guide

ManualsBrandsDell ManualsActive System ManagerOpenManage Deployment Toolkit Version 5.5

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

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

DTKTORACADM................................................................................................................................................................... 6

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

Other supporting documents you may need......................................................................................................................9

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

Contacting Dell..................................................................................................................................................................... 10

2 Pre-requisites and deployment..................................................................................................... 11

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Deployment matrix for PowerEdge FD332.......................................................................................................................15

Deployment matrix............................................................................................................................................................... 17

DTK deployment overview..................................................................................................................................................18

Preparing for deployment..............................................................................................................................................18

Deployment..................................................................................................................................................................... 18

Configuring a source system ............................................................................................................................................. 18

RAC and BIOS configuration.........................................................................................................................................19

How to obtain Dell utility partition files........................................................................................................................19

3 Downloading DTK....................................................................................................................... 20

Extracting DTK components on systems running windows.......................................................................................... 20

DTK components on systems running windows....................................................................................................... 20

Extracting DTK components on systems running Linux................................................................................................. 21

DTK components on the mounted media................................................................................................................... 21

Directory structure on the target system................................................................................................................... 21

DTK contents.......................................................................................................................................................................22

System utilities and supported files for windows...................................................................................................... 22

System utilities and supported files For Linux............................................................................................................23

SYSCFG equivalent RACADM commands................................................................................................................. 24

Sample scripts for deployment.......................................................................................................................................... 26

Sample deployment configuration files for Windows................................................................................................26

Sample deployment configuration files for Linux.......................................................................................................27

Sample scripts for deployment on Windows system................................................................................................ 28

Sample scripts for deployment on Linux system.......................................................................................................29

RPMs.................................................................................................................................................................................... 29

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