User's Manual

Deploying More Than One System With Slightly Different
Configurations
In this scenario, you can deploy more than one supported system with slightly different configurations. For example, you
can configure 50 PowerEdge R720 systems with different cards, controllers, hard drives, memory, and so on.
• The controller type must be the same as that you configured.
• The configured RAID level and RAID policy must be supported by the existing controller.
NOTE: Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 5 and SAS 6 controllers require a minimum of two disks.
• The number of disks and the disk size must be the same or more.
• The available disks must be of the same type.
After the prerequisites are complete, follow the steps in Deploying More Than One System With The Same
Configuration.
Deploying Multiple Systems Of Different Models
In this scenario, you can deploy multiple systems of different models; for example, you can deploy 25 PowerEdge R720
systems, 50 PowerEdge R620 systems, and 25 PowerEdge T620 systems.
• Make sure that all the systems you want to deploy are selected on the Select System(s) screen.
• The components that need to be updated must be selected in the Firmware Update module.
• The relevant options for all the systems must be selected in the Hardware Configuration module.
• The systems that are selected have supported operating systems that can be installed on them.
After the prerequisites are complete, follow steps in Deploying More Than One System With The Same Configuration.
Deploying Multiple Systems With The Same Configuration And
Different Operating Systems
In this scenario, you can update and deploy multiple systems with the same configuration and different operating
systems. For example, if there are 100 PowerEdge R720 systems and you want to deploy 50 systems with the Microsoft
Windows Server 2012 (64–bit) operating system and 50 systems with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 (64–bit) operating
system.
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