Users Guide

ManualsBrandsDell ManualsActive System ManagerOpenManage Deployment Toolkit Version 6.1

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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...................................................................................................................................12

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.......................................................................................................................................... 16

Drivers.......................................................................................................................................................................... 17

Other supporting tools and system les.................................................................................................................. 17

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

Deployment....................................................................................................................................................................... 19

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

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

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

Deployment................................................................................................................................................................. 21

Conguring a source system ..........................................................................................................................................21

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

How to obtain Dell utility partition les....................................................................................................................22

3 Downloading DTK........................................................................................................................................ 23

Extracting DTK components on systems running windows....................................................................................... 23

DTK components on systems running windows.................................................................................................... 23

Extracting DTK components on systems running Linux............................................................................................. 24

DTK components on the mounted media............................................................................................................... 24

Directory structure on the target system............................................................................................................... 24

DTK contents....................................................................................................................................................................25

System utilities and supported les for windows...................................................................................................25

System utilities and supported les For Linux........................................................................................................26

SYSCFG equivalent RACADM commands..............................................................................................................28

Sample scripts for deployment.......................................................................................................................................32

Sample deployment conguration les for Windows............................................................................................ 32

Sample deployment conguration les for Linux................................................................................................... 32

Sample scripts for deployment on Windows system.............................................................................................33

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