Users Guide

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For working with deploying non-Windows operating systems
Ensure that you remember the following points for deploying non-windows operating systems on target systems:
Non-Windows ISO file is available in either Network File System Version (NFS) or Common Internet File System (CIFS) share
with read and write access.
Confirm that virtual disk is available on the target system.
After deploying ESXi OS the server is moved to Managed Lifecycle Controller (ESXi)collection in SCCM.
After deploying any flavor of non-windows OS, the servers are moved to Default Non-Windows Host Update Group.
It is recommended that the network adapter is connected to the network port in the server on which the operating system is
being deployed.
Managing Operational Template
You can create, edit, and delete an Operational Template in OMIMSSC.
Creating Operational Template
Before creating Operational Template, ensure that you complete the following tasks:
Discover a reference server by using the Discovery page. For more information, see Discovering servers using manual
discovery.
(Optional) Create an update source. For more information, see Creating update source.
(Optional) In OMIMSSC for SCCM:
Create a task sequence.
For more information, see Creating task sequence.
For non-Windows OS deployment, have a device type credential profile. For more information, see Creating credential
profile.
Create an unattended boot media. For more information, see Creating LC boot media.
(Optional) In OMIMSSC for SCVMM:
Create a hypervisor profile. For information about creating hypervisor profile, see Creating hypervisor profile.
For Windows deployment, have a device type credential profile. For more information, see Creating credential profile.
You can create an Operational Template by capturing the configuration of the reference server. After capturing the
configuration, you can directly save the template, or edit the attributes for update source, hardware configuration, and windows
component as per your requirement. Now you can save the template, which can be used for other PowerEdge homogenous
servers.
1. In OMIMSSC, do any of the following to open Operational Template:
In the OMIMSSC dashboard, click Create Operational Template.
In the navigation pane, click Profiles > Operational Template, and then click Create.
The Operational Template wizard is displayed.
2. Provide a name and description for the template. Also, provide the IP address of the reference server, and then click Next.
NOTE: You can capture the configuration of reference server with iDRAC 2.0 and later.
3. In Server Components, click a component to view the available attributes and their values.
The components are as follows:
Firmware update
Hardware components, which are RAID, NIC, and BIOS
Operating systemselect either Windows, or ESXi, or RHEL
4. (Optional) edit the values for the available attributes, if necessary.
5. Select the check box against each component as only the selected components configuration of selected components is
applied when the Operational Template is applied on all the configurations that are captured.
In Operating System component, perform the steps in either of the following options, as per your requirement:
For Windows OS deployment on SCCM, see Windows component for the OMIMSSC console extension for SCCM.
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