Users Guide

NOTE: The Dell Management Plug-in ISO does not contain the required ESXi ISO images for deployment. You must

download these images to a location that is accessible during deployment or your deployment may fail.

1. Navigate to support.dell.com.

2. Browse to the Drivers & Downloads page in your language, and then do one of the following:

– To select the drivers using the Service Tag or Express Service Code, under Yes, in the text box enter the

service tag or express service code, and then click Submit.

– To select the drivers using another option, under No, select one of the following:

* Automatically detect my Service Tag for me

* Choose from My Products and Services List

* Choose from a list of all Dell products

Then click Continue and follow the directions for the option selected.

3. On the page for the server selected, scroll down to Refine your results and under Operating System, use the drop-

down list to select the ESX or ESXi system you want.

4. Click Enterprise Solutions.

5. In the Enterprise Solutions list, select the version of ISO required, and then click Download File.

NOTE: Embedded ISOs are used for hypervisor installs on to Dual Internal SD Modules. Installable ISOs are for

installs on to hard disks.

6. In the dialog box, select For Single File Download via Browser, and then click Download Now.

7. In the dialog box, browse to the location to store the ISO images for deployment.

Understanding How To Configure A Hardware Profile

To configure server hardware settings, you must create a hardware profile. A hardware profile is a configuration

template you can apply to newly-discovered infrastructure components and it requires the following information:

Boot Order The boot order is the boot device sequence and hard drive sequence, which you can edit only

if the boot mode is set to BIOS.

BIOS Settings The BIOS settings include: memory, processor, SATA, integrated devices, serial

communications, embedded server management, power management, system security, and

miscellaneous settings.

iDRAC Settings iDRAC settings include: Network, user list, and user configuration (IPMI/iDRAC privileges).

NOTE: For systems that have iDRAC Express, the iDRAC configuration cannot be extracted;

therefore, the server should not be used as a reference server. If it is used as a target

system, then no iDRAC configuration from the reference server is applied.

RAID

Configuration

The RAID configuration displays the current RAID topology on the reference server at the time

the hardware profile was extracted.