Owner's Manual

4 Contents
Configuring your Server’s Hardware Components . . . 15
Creating a Task Sequence
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Editing a Task Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Configuring Task Sequence Actions . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Configuring your System BIOS
. . . . . . . . . . . 18
Configuring Set Boot Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Configuring RAID Using RAID Config (wizard)
. . . 20
Using the Array Builder
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
How Array Builder Works
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Controllers
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Variable Conditions
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Logical Drives (also known as Virtual Disks)
. . . . 26
Disks (also known as Array Disks)
. . . . . . . . . 27
Exporting to XML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Importing XML
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Saving to Package
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Creating Task Sequences for RAID, DRAC,
and iDRAC
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Variable Replacement
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Log / Return Files
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Configuring the Task Sequence Steps to Apply Operating
System Image And Driver Package
. . . . . . . . . . . 32
Applying Operating System Image
. . . . . . . . . 32
Adding Dell Driver Packages
. . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Advertising a Task Sequence
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Best Practices for Advertising a
Task Sequence
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Deploying a Task Sequence
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
book.book Page 4 Friday, April 13, 2012 9:34 PM