Owner's Manual
What’s New
The new features for this release include:
• Support for deployment of Windows operating system in Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
(UEFI) mode.
• Using DTK utilities you can deploy the following operating system:
o Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter, Foundation, Essentials, and Standard
editions
o Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 (64–bit)
o Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 (64–bit)
• RAIDCFG extends support to Dell PERC 9 (H730P Adapter) with the following features:
o RAID 10 virtual disk with uneven span.
o Advanced 4K sector hard disk drives.
o T10 Protection Information (PI) for data integrity.
• Support for USB bootable DTK embedded Linux ISO image. See Using USB.
• Availability of DTK in Systems Management Tools and Documentation DVD.
• RAIDCFG configuration supports the following options configured through RAID controller BIOS:
o Configuring the boot mode of the controller.
o Configuring the auto import property of the controller.
o Rebuilding physical disks associated with a virtual disk.
o Configuring the array disk state to online or offline.
o Converting RAID to Non-RAID and vice versa on an array disk.
o Replacing the physical disk of a virtual disk.
o Executing consistency check on a virtual disk.
o Erasing the encrypted physical disk.
o Displaying the following in the array disk details:
Power state
Disk State
S.M.A.R.T. state
Maximum Device Link Rate
Negotiated Link Rate
Secured State
Encryption Capability
NOTE: See the Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit Command Line Interface
Reference Guide available at dell.com/openmanagemanuals.
• Support for the following Dell PowerEdge servers:
o R920
o M820VRTX
o R220
• Added support for the following Network Interface Cards (NICs), Converged Network Adapters
(CNAs), and Fiber Channels (FCs):–
o Mellanox ConnectX-3 Dual Port 10 GbE DA/SFP+ Network Adapter
o Mellanox ConnectX-3 Dual Port 10 GbE KR Blade Mezzanine Card
o Mellanox ConnectX-3 Dual Port 40 GbE QSFP+ Network Adapter