Dell EMC OpenManage Deployment Toolkit Version 6.
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Contents 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 Dell EMC Remote Enterprise Systems Management documents — www.dell.com/esmmanuals • For iDRAC and Dell Lifecycle Controller documents — www.dell.com/idracmanuals • For Dell EMC OpenManage Connections Enterprise Systems Management documents — www.dell.com/esmmanuals • For Dell EMC Serviceability Tools documents — www.dell.com/serviceabilitytools • a Go to www.dell.com/support. b Click Browse all products.
• Windows ADK for Windows Server 2012 R2 to build Windows PE 5.1 • Windows ADK for Windows Server 2016 to build Windows PE 10.0 • Windows ADK for Windows Server 2019 to build Windows PE 10.0 • Working knowledge of Microsoft Remote Installation Services (RIS) and Automated Deployment Services (ADS) (including setting up of RIS and ADS environments) or any other third party deployment system or tool for Windows PE.
5 In the folder PER740, create a folder Out-of-Box Drivers. 6 Boot the target system with DTK Windows PE image. 7 Check the RAID controllers on the target system using the command raidcfg –ctrl. 8 Create a virtual disk using the command raidcfg –ctrl –ac=cvd –c= -ad=. 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.
7 Select the required operating system. The operating system installation starts and goes on unattended. After the operating system is installed, the Set Up Windows screen is displayed. Installing Windows client operating system using DTK To install Windows client operating system using DTK: NOTE: This feature is not supported on Dell PowerEdge MX platforms. 1 On the source system, create an operating system-specific folder. For example, WinClient_deploy. 2 Make WinClient_deploy folder shareable.
• A target system with a media drive, if performing a local deployment. • A target system with a media drive and network access, if performing a network deployment. • All DTK utilities, sample scripts, sample configuration files, and RPM packages. • All operating system RPM packages that DTK RPMs require. NOTE: Tools such as Yellowdog Updater Modified (YUM), Yet Another Setup Tool (YAST), and Advanced Packaging Tool (APT) can be used to manage RPM dependency issues.
4 Restart the NFS service. 5 Copy the operating system image to the NFS share. 6 Copy initrd.img for Red Hat Enterprise Linux to NFS share. 7 Copy vmlinuz from Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system image to NFS share. 8 Boot DTK on the target machine. 9 Create the virtual disk using the raidcfg command. 10 Create a directory under /tmp. For example, os_src. 11 Mount the NFS Share to /tmp/os_src. 12 Copy ks.cfg/ks-rhelx.cfg (in BIOS mode) or ks_uefi.cfg/ks_rhelx_uefi.
Ensure that the correct device is set to DT_HD and DT_OS_DISK. 5 Run /lininst.sh (for 6.x) or /lininst7.sh (for 7.x) script. The server reboots to the grub prompt. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system unattended installation is initiated.
NOTE: Using RACADM scripts is an alternative method to install SUSE Linux server operating system. This feature is supported on Dell’s 12th generation of PowerEdge Servers and later systems. For information see, Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit User’s Guide or Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit Command Line Interface Reference Guide available at dell.com/ openmanagemanuals . To convert from DTK to RACADM deployment and to install SUSE Linux Enterprise Server using the suseinst.
d 15 For CentOS 7.x , run export DT_OS_NFS_LOC=:/. Run the partcfg.sh (at /opt/dell/toolkit/template/scripts/) script to create the Dell utility partition and OS partition in BIOS or UEFI mode. Ensure that the correct device is set to DT_HD and DT_OS_DISK.. 16 From /opt/dell/toolkit/template/scripts, run /centinst6.sh or /centinst7.sh. The server reboots to the grub prompt. The CentOS Linux operating system unattended installation is initiated .
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. DTK seamless package is posted independently on www.dell.
Upgrading your DTK version When upgrading from a previous release of DTK, ensure that you create the environment for new DTK version separately from the previous version. This step is necessary because the environments and requirements for the new DTK versions are completely different.
