Reference Guide

Bare metal recovery

To maintain a fast and ecient bare metal recovery option, Dell EMC recommends using the Rapid Appliance Self-Recovery (RASR) tool.

WARNING: When you create a RASR USB disk, all the data saved on the USB disk is deleted.

WARNING: When you perform a Factory Restore on your appliance with the RASR USB backup disk, all the data saved on the

appliance is deleted.

After bare metal recovery deployment, you can create a RASR USB disk by using any of the following methods:

• Creating a RASR USB disk for Hyper-V

• Creating a RASR USB disk for ESXi and AHV

Topics:

• Creating a RASR USB disk for Hyper-V

• Creating a RASR USB disk for ESXi and AHV

Creating a RASR USB disk for Hyper-V

1 Insert a USB disk that is 16 GB or higher, into an available USB slot of the appliance.

2 From the Windows 2016 desktop, double-click the Make RASR USB disk icon to launch a utility that creates the RASR USB disk.

IMPORTANT

: The USB disk contains factory installed conguration information specic for this appliance and must not be

used in another appliance. As a best practice, clearly label the newly created USB disk with the appliance's Service Tag.

NOTE: This process may take few minutes depending on the speed of the USB device.

Creating a RASR USB disk for ESXi and AHV

1 Insert a USB drive that is 16 GB or higher into an available USB slot of the appliance.

2 Open the IDRAC console, boot to the SD card.

3 Select Local SD Card.

The RASR screen is displayed.

4 Select Option 2 - creating USB key.

NOTE

: This process may take a few minutes depending on the speed of the USB device.

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