User's Manual

Configuring Your System Hardware On Your Current System For Multiple Systems
1. On the Systems Build and Update Utility Home screen, click Change near System(s) Selection on the left pane.
The Select System(s) screen is displayed
2. Select the system(s) on which you want to deploy the hardware configuration.
NOTE: To generate a bootable ISO image to deploy a hardware configuration to multiple systems, select all the
required systems on the Select System(s) screen.
3. Click Save Settings.
The Systems Build and Update Utility Home screen is displayed listing the selected systems under System(s)
Selection.
4. Click Hardware Configuration on the left pane.
The Configuration Status Summary screen is displayed.
5. On the Component screen, click the individual component buttons to configure the components.
– RAID
– BMC/DRAC/iDRAC
– BIOS
6. After you configure fields on each component screen, click Save Settings → Go Back to Configuration Summary.
7. Click Save Settings and Go Back to Home Page.
8. Click Apply/Export Configuration.
The Configure Apply/Export Options screen is displayed with the Create Auto-Deployment Bootable Image option
selected, by default.
9. Click Destination and specify the location where you want to save the bootable ISO image.
10. Click Continue, and then click Apply/Export.
NOTE: If the destination you specified is not a bootable USB key, burn the ISO image using any media burning
software application.
11. Boot the selected system(s) with the bootable media you created.
The deployment starts automatically and you are not prompted for any inputs. The system reboots as and when
required until the selected system(s) are ready with the updated configuration.
Server Operating System Installation Module
The Server Operating System Installation (SOI) module in SBUU enables you to install Dell-supported operating systems
on your Dell systems. SOI also maps the operating system you want to install on your system and installs the requisite
drivers. It has a simple interface to configure Dell-supported storage controllers.
You can use SOI to:
• Deploy an operating system on your bare-metal Dell system.
• Repurpose your system.
Installing the Operating System
To install the operating system, for example, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 64-bit, perform the following steps:
1. On the Systems Build and Update Utility Home screen, click Server OS Installation on the left pane.
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