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• 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.

NOTE: SAS 5i/R, SAS 6i/R, H200, and Software RAID controllers require a minimum of two

physical disks to create RAID 0 and RAID 1.

• 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, you can deploy 50 PowerEdge R720 systems with the Microsoft

Windows Server 2012 (64–bit) operating system and another 50 PowerEdge R720 systems with the Red

Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 (64–bit) operating system.