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Using SBUU
This chapter describes the flexibility that SBUU offers to deploy and update
your systems and also the various scenarios in which you can use SBUU.
SBUU offers the following options:
• Choice of configuration: Depending on your deployment and update
requirement, you can configure all three of the modules (
Firmware
Update
, Hardware Configuration , and Server Operating System
Installation
), any one of the modules, or a combination of the modules.
•
Choice of when to apply the configuration: You can either apply the
configuration of your choice immediately or save it by using the
Apply/Export Configuration feature.
•
Choice of configuring systems: The Apply/Export Configuration feature
in
SBUU allows you to deploy and update your current system and/or
multiple systems or multiple systems of different models.
– You can perform the following deployment/update operations on your
current system:
• apply firmware updates
• configure hardware (BIOS, DRAC, RAID, and so on)
• install an operating system
• launch post-operating system install scripts
– You can perform the following deployment or update operations for
multiple systems:
• export the configuration scripts (for all three modules or a
combination of your choice) for future use.
• generate a bootable image that contains, among others, the
update packages for specific generation(s) of system(s), applicable
hardware configuration scripts (BIOS, DRAC, RAID, and so on),
operating system installation details and link to the source
CD/DVDs on the network, and launch points to install the
operating system.