Users Guide

ManualsBrandsDell ManualsActive System ManagerOpenManage Deployment Toolkit Version 6.0.1

Contents

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

DTK Deprecation Message................................................................................................................................................. 6

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

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

Other Documents You May Need...................................................................................................................................... 11

Other supporting documents you may need......................................................................................................................12

Accessing documents from the Dell EMC support site......................................................................................................12

Contacting Dell..................................................................................................................................................................13

2 Pre-requisites and deployment.......................................................................................14

Supported systems........................................................................................................................................................... 14

Supported operating systems............................................................................................................................................14

Supported BIOS Firmware versions...................................................................................................................................15

Prerequisites and requirements......................................................................................................................................... 15

Installation prerequisites..............................................................................................................................................15

Deployment prerequisites............................................................................................................................................15

Drivers........................................................................................................................................................................ 16

Other supporting tools and system les...................................................................................................................... 16

Deploying operating systems.............................................................................................................................................17

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

Deployment matrix............................................................................................................................................................ 18

DTK deployment overview................................................................................................................................................ 19

Preparing for deployment............................................................................................................................................19

Deployment................................................................................................................................................................20

Conguring a source system ........................................................................................................................................... 20

RAC and BIOS conguration...................................................................................................................................... 20

How to obtain Dell utility partition les....................................................................................................................... 20

3 Downloading DTK.......................................................................................................... 21

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

DTK components on systems running windows.......................................................................................................... 21

Extracting DTK components on systems running Linux....................................................................................................22

DTK components on the mounted media................................................................................................................... 22

Directory structure on the target system....................................................................................................................22

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

System utilities and supported les for windows........................................................................................................ 22

System utilities and supported les For Linux............................................................................................................. 24

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

Sample scripts for deployment......................................................................................................................................... 28

Sample deployment conguration les for Windows.................................................................................................. 29

Sample deployment conguration les for Linux.........................................................................................................29

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