Users Guide

ManualsBrandsDell ManualsActive System ManagerOpenManage Deployment Toolkit Version 6.1.2

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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.................................................................................................................. 17

Deploying operating systems...........................................................................................................................................18

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

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

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

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

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

Conguring a source system .........................................................................................................................................20

RAC and BIOS conguration.....................................................................................................................................21

How to obtain Dell utility partition les.................................................................................................................... 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 les for windows...................................................................................................24

System utilities and supported les For Linux........................................................................................................25

SYSCFG equivalent RACADM commands..............................................................................................................27

Sample scripts for deployment....................................................................................................................................... 31

Sample deployment conguration les for Windows............................................................................................. 31

Sample deployment conguration les for Linux.................................................................................................... 31

Sample scripts for deployment on Windows system.............................................................................................32

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