Owner's Manual

Notes
To use the RAID configuration feature of SBUU to configure RAID and install the operating system, the Fast Initialization
parameter of the RAID controller must be set to ON. This setting is the factory default for all RAID controllers.
Do not insert or remove any hot-swappable drives until the operating system is completely installed while using SBUU. The
results may be unpredictable and the installation may fail.
Replication is supported on systems with multiple controllers, provided the controllers are in an initialized state. This is
applicable to both master and target systems.
If you configure RAID manually and use SBUU to install an operating system on a master system, then you have to manually
configure RAID on the target system as well.
Use local accounts for creating the SMB share on Windows on which the RPMs will reside for the network download feature.
SBUU does not support the installation of Tape or Fiber Channel drivers with the operating system installation. You can
download the drivers for these devices from the Dell Systems Service and Diagnostics Tools on the Dell Systems Management
Tools and Documentation DVD or from the Dell support website at support.dell.com.
The Keyboard Type locale option offered for a keyboard layout on the SBUU Home page is for the SBUU pages navigation
only. The selected keyboard layout setting is not passed to the installed operating system.
In the Firmware Update page, if the user selects Refresh USB devices, the user must wait for the devices to be listed, or a
popup appears informing that no devices could be found, before clicking any other links on the page.
USB keys formatted with New Technology File System (NTFS) or File Allocation Table (FAT16) are not supported.
Any network or Windows share or CD/DVD that you use as an input to the Repository must not contain any file or folder that
is not part of the Server Update Utility (SUU) content.
When you insert multiple USB keys into your system, SBUU uses the last inserted USB key which has a repository that is
applicable to the platform to which your system belongs, and is compatible with the SBUU repository.
The selections on Set the Date and Time page in SOI will show default values (not the earlier selected values), when the
user re-visits the page by clicking Back or Edit. The user selected values will be stored internally and will be applied to the
system when the user opts to apply.
The Advanced Mode allows you to specify the size of the virtual disk. The specified value will be used while creating RAID
and will not be validated against the existing disks on the system.
The values configured in the multi-sys-config.csv file will be applied only during execution. Only those options that are
shown during configuration time are applied. However, options that are not shown during configuration, but are part of
multi-sys-config.csv file will be ignored.
Note: If there is any overlap in the settings between Configuration GUI and multi-sys-config.csv file, then the settings in
multi-sys-config.csv file will override those made in the GUI.
The installation times for different versions of the Windows Server 2008 operating system will vary considerably. This is
because of the differences in the software and drivers utilized in different versions of the Windows Server 2008 operating
systems and the capabilities of the installation platform. On the Installing Windows screen, the Completing installation step,
where the drivers are installed, may take considerable time to complete.