Deployment Guide

Introduction

The Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit (DTK) includes a set of utilities, sample scripts, and sample configuration files that you can use

to deploy and configure the Dell systems. You can use DTK to build script-based and RPM-based installation for deploying large number of

systems on a pre-operating system environment in a reliable way, without changing their current deployment processes. Using DTK you

can install operating systems on Dell systems in BIOS or Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) mode.

In addition to the command line utilities used to configure various system features, DTK also provides sample scripts and configuration files

to perform common deployment tasks and documentation. These files and scripts describe the use of the DTK in Microsoft Windows Pre-

installation Environment (Windows PE) and Linux environments.

Topics:

• What is new in this release

• DTKTORACADM

• Other Documents You May Need

• Other supporting documents you may need

• Accessing documents from the Dell EMC support site

• Contacting Dell

What is new in this release

The new features for this release include:

• Support for installation and deployment of the following operating systems in BIOS and UEFI modes:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2

• CentOS 7.3

• Support for the following Dell PowerEdge servers:

• PowerEdge C6320p

• Optional support for force option in Resetting the Controller under the RAID configuration Utility options and arguments.

NOTE:

For the list of supported operating systems and Dell servers, see the

Dell Systems Software Support Matrix

dell.com/openmanagemanuals.

NOTE: Use both DTK and the Server Administrator from the same release version to get complete supported features of

Server Administrator.

DTKTORACADM

The DTK SYSCFG deployment scripts are converted to equivalent RACADM scripts, that helps in migration to utilize RACADM in the

deployment solution. The utility has the conversion tool for converting the SYSCFG scripts in both environments: Microsoft Windows and

Linux operating systems. Starting 12th generation of PowerEdge servers and later, selected set of SYSCFG commands are a part of the

DTK sample scripts. The list of DTK sample scripts are present in \Toolkit\Tools\CONVERTER\windows_scripts.lst for

Microsoft Windows operating systems and toolkit/Converter/ linux_scripts.lst for Linux operating system. The converted

scripts are available in the folder racscripts.

Table 1. DTKTORACADM Command on Windows Operating System

Valid Arguments dtktoracadm.exe or dtktoracadm.exe windows_scripts.lst debug

Description On systems running Windows operating system, run the command, where

windows_scripts.lst is the input file which contains the list of path to run the RACADM

scripts and debug is an option which list the file status.

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