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Introduction
Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit (DTK) includes a set of utilities, sample scripts, and sample
configuration files to deploy and configure your Dell system. You can use DTK to build script-based and
RPM-based installation for deploying a large number of systems reliably, without changing their current
deployment processes. You can use DTK in a Microsoft Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows
PE) or a Linux environment.
What's New In This Release
The new features for this release include:
• Support for deployment of Windows operating system in Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)
mode.
• Support for deploying the following operating systems using the DTK utilities:
– Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter, Foundation, Essentials, and Standard editions
– Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 (64-bit)
– Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 (64-bit)
• The RAIDCFG utility extends support to Dell PERC 9 (H730P Adapter) with the following features:
– RAID 10 virtual disk with uneven span.
– Advanced 4K sector hard-disk drives.
– T10 Protection Information (PI) for data integrity.
• Support for USB bootable DTK embedded Linux ISO image. See the Dell OpenManage Deployment
Toolkit User's Guide at dell.com/openmanagemanuals.
• Availability of DTK in Systems Management Tools and Documentation DVD.
• The RAIDCFG utility supports the following options, which can be configured through RAID controller
BIOS:
– Configuring the boot mode of the controller. See Setting Boot Mode.
– Configuring the auto import property of the controller. See Configuring Auto Import.
– Rebuilding physical disks associated with a virtual disk. See Configuring Physical Disk Rebuild.
– Configuring the array disk state to online or offline. See Configuring Physical Disk State.
– Converting RAID to non-RAID and vice versa on an array disk. See Configuring Array Disk As RAID.
– Replacing the physical disk of a virtual disk. See Replacing Physical Disk Of A Virtual Disk.
– Executing consistency check on a virtual disk. See Consistency Check For Virtual Disk.
– Erasing the encrypted physical disk. See Erasing Encrypted Physical Disk.
– Displaying the following in the array disk details:
* Power State
* Disk State
* S.M.A.R.T. State
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