Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit Version 5.
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Contents 1 Introduction................................................................................................................................. 4 Documents you may need.................................................................................................................................................... 4 Accessing documents from Dell support site.....................................................................................................................4 Prerequisites..........
1 Introduction The Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit (DTK) includes a set of utilities, sample scripts, and sample configuration files that you can use to deploy and configure the Dell systems. You can use DTK to build script-based and RPM-based installation for deploying large number of systems on a pre-operating system environment in a reliable way, without changing their current deployment processes.
Prerequisites Before using DTK to deploy Microsoft Windows Pre-installation Environment (PE) or Linux environment (Red Hat Enterprise Linux or SUSE Linux Enterprise Server), ensure you have the following prerequisites: Table 1. Prerequisites for Installation Windows PE Environment Linux Environment The DTK self-extracting zip file (DTKX.X-WINPE-XX.exe) available at dell.com/support. The DTK ISO image available at dell.com/support. A Windows workstation that has at least 512 MB of RAM.
NOTE: You can also download the latest drivers from the Dell Support website at support.dell.com. 4. Generate a system BIOS, BMC, RAID, and/or RAC/iDRAC configuration profile from the Source System. Copy the generated configuration files to a read/write share on the workstation or server. NOTE: You can obtain the system BIOS, BMC, RAID, and/or RAC/iDRAC configuration files by booting from DTK Windows PE image and running the SYSCAP.BAT, RAIDCAP.BAT, and RACCAP.BAT scripts. 5.
Deployment Toolkit User’s Guide or Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit Command Line Interface Reference Guide available at dell.com/openmanagemanuals . 1. Follow the steps 1 to 15 from the section Installation of Windows server operating system using DTK. 2. On the target system, navigate to \Toolkit\Tools\CONVERTER and run dtktoracadm.exe or dtktoracadm.exe windows_scripts.lst, where windows_scripts.lst is the input file which contains the list of script files to be converted to equivalent RACADM scripts.
• • • • • • • • • • Any third party deployment system or tool, such as Yum. A workstation with the following capabilities: • A writable media drive • Network access A target system with a media drive, if performing a local deployment. A target system with a media drive and network access, if performing a network deployment. All DTK utilities, sample scripts, sample configuration files, and RPM packages. All operating system RPM packages that DTK RPMs require.
8. Boot DTK on the target machine. 9. Create the virtual disk using the raidcfg command. 10. Create a directory under /tmp. For example, os_src. 11. Mount the NFS Share to /tmp/os_src. 12. Copy ks.cfg/ks-rhelx.cfg (in BIOS mode) or ks_uefi.cfg/ks_rhelx_uefi.cfg (in UEFI mode) from /opt/dell/toolkit/template/ configs to NFS share on the source machine. Here, x indicates the version of the operating system. In BIOS mode, rename the ks_rhelx.cfg to ks.cfg. In UEFI mode, rename the ks_rhelx_uefi.cfg to ks.cfg.
Installing SUSE Linux server Operating System using DTK CAUTION: It is recommended that you consult your SUSE Linux Enterprise Server operating system documentation and unattended deployment documentation to develop a thorough understanding of the unattended installation process before attempting to perform a full scripted deployment. NOTE: While installing Linux, ensure that you install grub in the boot partition. Otherwise, you cannot boot to the utility partition by pressing the key during reboot.
2. Perform the steps 2 to 11 from the section Installing SUSE Linux server Operating System using DTK. 3. From /opt/dell/toolkit/converter, run the command python dtktoracadm.py or python dtktoracadm.py linux_scripts.lst, where linux_scripts.lst is the input file which contains the list of script files to be converted to equivalent RACADM scripts. The RACADM converted scripts are available in /opt/dell/toolkit/converter/racscripts. 4. From /opt/dell/toolkit/converter/racscripts/, run the partcfg.
Downloading Seamless package The DTK seamless package is a single installer package which carries Linux DTK RPMs (RHEL, SLES) and its dependency. Seamless package auto recognizes the OS type and its respective dependency during the installation and installs SYSCFG, RAIDCFG and RACADM tools on Linux post operating system. The size of the DTK tools seamless package is less (60MB) compared to that of the complete OM DVD contents size. DTK seamless package is posted independently on www.dell.
