Users Guide

The following are the comparison results:
● Completed—The preview job is successfully run. For more information about the comparison results, click View Details
in the Details column.
● Not completed—The preview job is not successfully run on the iDRAC. Ensure that iDRAC is accessible, and perform
iDRAC reset, if required. For more information about the job, see the OMIVV logs and the logs at iDRAC console.
7. On the Schedule Deployment Job page, do the following:
a. Enter the deployment job name and description. The description is an optional field.
b. To run the deployment job immediately, click Run Now.
c. To schedule the job to run later, click Schedule later, and then select the date and time.
d. Select the Go to the Jobs page after the job is submitted check box.
You can track the status of the job on the Jobs page. For more information, see Deployment jobs on page 80.
8. Click FINISH.
Deploy ISO profile (ESXi installation)
Prerequisites
You can perform the deployment only on the compliant bare-metal servers. For more information, see View bare-metal servers
on page 57.
Steps
1. To launch the deployment wizard, go to Compliance & Deployment > Deployment > DEPLOY.
2. On the System Profile and ISO Profile Deployment Checklist page of the deployment wizard, verify the deployment
checklist, and then click GET STARTED.
3. On the Select Server (s) page, select one or more servers.
The Select Deployment Options page is displayed.
4. On the Select Deployment Options page, select ISO Profile (ESXi installation).
5. From the vCenter Name drop-down menu, select an instance of vCenter.
6. To select the vCenter destination container, click BROWSE, and select an appropriate data center or cluster on which you
want to deploy an operating system.
Proactive HA-enabled clusters are not displayed. Select any data center at the time of deployment and then move the host
to Proactive HA-enabled cluster after the deployment and inventory are completed successfully.
7. From the ISO Profile drop-down menu, select an appropriate ISO profile.
8. Under Installation Target, select any of the following options:
● First boot disk—deploys an operating system on the Hard Drive, Solid State Drive (SSD), or virtual drive created by
RAID controllers.
● Internal Dual SD Module (IDSDM)—deploys an operating system on the IDSDM. If an IDSDM is available on at least
one of the selected servers, the Internal Dual SD Module option is enabled. If not, only the First boot Disk option is
available.
○ If any one of the selected servers does not support an IDSDM or BOSS module, or if an IDSDM or BOSS is not
installed in the servers during deployment then the deployment operation on those servers is skipped.
To deploy an operating system on the first boot disk of the servers, select the Deploy the hypervisor to the first boot
disk for servers that do not have an available Internal Dual SD Module check box.
NOTE:
The First boot disk installation target is not equivalent to the first entry in the BIOS Hard Drive Sequence
or UEFI Boot sequence. This option deploys an operating system on to the first disk identified by the ESXi pre-OS
environment. Ensure that the Hard-Disk FailOver or Boot sequence retry option is enabled when the First Boot Disk
option is selected.
● BOSS—deploys an operating system on the BOSS card. If BOSS is available on at least one of the selected servers, the
BOSS option is enabled. If not, only the First boot Disk option is available.
If you are using OMIVV to deploy an operating system on the BOSS controller, ensure that system profile is captured
from the reference server along with the BOSS VD configuration and target server must have a BOSS with similar
configuration. For more information about creating VD, see Dell EMC Boot Optimized Server Storage-S1 User's Guide at
https://www.dell.com/support.
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