Dell EMC OpenManage Deployment Toolkit Version 6.1 Installation Guide March 2021 Rev.
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Contents Chapter 1: Introduction................................................................................................................. 4 DTK Deprecation Message................................................................................................................................................ 4 Documents you may need.................................................................................................................................................
1 Introduction The 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.
○ For iDRAC—https://www.dell.com/idracmanuals ○ For Dell EMC OpenManage Connections Enterprise Systems Management—https://www.dell.com/ OMConnectionsEnterpriseSystemsManagement ○ For Dell EMC Serviceability Tools—https://www.dell.com/serviceabilitytools ● Dell EMC support site: 1. Go to https://www.dell.com/support. 2. Click Browse all products. 3. From the All products page, click Software, and then click the required link. 4. Click the required product and then click the required version.
● An optimally configured source system with network access. NOTE: You can download the latest drivers from www.dell.com/support. Preparing Windows PE environment for deployment If you are using the Windows PE environment: 1. Copy or extract DTK utilities, sample scripts, sample configuration files, and drivers provided (in the zip file) to the Windows PE image. 2.
15. In Unattend.xml, check the value of DiskId in the tags ImageInstall and DiskConfiguration. The value should be zero. If the value is not zero, set it to zero. 16. On the target system, navigate to \Toolkit\template\scripts and run TKENVSET.BAT to set the DTK paths and options. 17. Set the environment variable DT_DRIVE=Z:. 18. Run the script W2K12INST.BAT or W2K16INST.BAT to install the required version of the Windows Server operating system. Alternative command while running the script W2K12INST.
9. From support.dell.com, download the driver for the server. 10. Copy the extracted driver file to Out-of-Box Drivers folder on the source system. 11. On the target system, to connect the target system to the shared folder WinClient_deploy, run the following command: net use z: \\\WinClient_deploy /USER: Password: 12. Navigate to \Toolkit\Template\Configs. 13. From \Toolkit\Template\Configs, copy UnattendClient.xml to z:\PR7920.
4. Generate a system BIOS, BMC, RAID, and/or RAC/iDRAC configuration profile from the optimally configured source system. Copy the generated configuration files to a read/write share onto the workstation or server. NOTE: You can obtain the system BIOS, BMC, RAID, and/or RAC/iDRAC configuration files by booting from DTK Linux ISO image and running the syscap.sh, raidcap.sh, and raccap.sh scripts. 5.
Converting to RACADM and installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Operating System using RACADM scripts CAUTION: Do not change the bootmode before running installation scripts using syscfg. If you do, reboot the system and start running installation scripts. NOTE: See your operating system documentation for instructions on modifying the options in the ks.cfg/ksrhelx.cfg/ks_rhelx_uefi.
b. Run export are available. c. Run export d. Run export e. Run export f. Run export DT_OS_SRC=/tmp/os_srcwhere linux, initrd.img, and autoinst.xml/ autoinst.xml_uefi DT_OS_PART=/dev/sda. DT_OS_IMG_PATH=nfs:///osimage. DT_SUSE_AUTOINST= nfs:///dtkosinstall/autoinst.xml. DT_HD=/dev/sda. 12. Run partcfg.sh at (/opt/dell/toolkit/template/scripts/) to create the Dell utility partition and OS partition in BIOS or UEFI mode.
2. Create a NFS share using the following command: vi /etc/exports. 3. Share /home/centosshare. NOTE: If the folder you want to share is /home, then the /etc/exports file must contain the “/home *(rw)” line. 4. Restart the NFS service. 5. Copy the operating system image to the NFS share. 6. Copy initrd.img for CentOS Linux to NFS share. 7. Copy vmlinuz from CentOS Linux operating system image to NFS share. 8. Boot DTK on the target machine. 9. Create the virtual disk using the raidcfg command. 10.
2 Topics: • Downloading Seamless package Downloading Seamless package The DTK seamless package is a single installer package which carries Linux DTK RPMs (RHEL, SLES) and its dependency. Seamless package auto recognizes the OS type and its respective dependency during the installation and installs SYSCFG, RAIDCFG and RACADM tools on Linux post operating system. The size of the DTK tools seamless package is less (60MB) compared to that of the complete OM DVD contents size.
