Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit Version 5.0.
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Contents 1 Introduction........................................................................................................... 4 Documents You May Need...................................................................................................................4 Accessing documents from Dell support site...................................................................................... 4 Prerequisites................................................................................................
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.
• Using search engines: – Type the name and version of the document in the search box. 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 support.dell.com.
• Your operating system software and documentation. • An optimally configured source system with network access. NOTE: You can also download the latest drivers from support.dell.com. Preparing Windows PE Environment for Deployment If you are using the Windows PE environment: 1. Copy or extract DTK utilities, sample scripts, sample configuration files, and drivers provided (in the zip file) to the Windows PE image. 2.
11. On the target system, to connect the target system to the shared folder WinServer_deploy, run the following command: net use z: \\ \WinServer_deploy /USER: Password: 12. Navigate to \Toolkit\Template\Configs. 13. From \Toolkit\Template\Configs, copy Unattend.xml to z:\PER730. NOTE: The unattend.xml file is for w2k8 (32–bit and 64–bit) in BIOS mode, unattend_uefi.xml is for w2k8 (64–bit) in uefi mode, unattendw2k12.
14. On the source system, navigate to PR7910. 15. In unattendClient.xml, check the value of DiskId in the tags ImageInstall and DiskConfiguration. The value should be zero. If the value is not zero, set it to zero. 16. On the target system, navigate to \Toolkit\template\scripts and run TKENVSET.BAT to set the DTK paths and options. 17. Set the environment variable DT_DRIVE=Z:. 18. Run the WINCLIENTINST.bat script to install the required version of Windows client operating system. 19.
4. Generate a system BIOS, BMC, RAID, and/or RAC/iDRAC configuration profile from the optimally configured source system. Copy the generated configuration files to a read/write share onto the workstation or server. NOTE: You can obtain the system BIOS, BMC, RAID, and/or RAC/iDRAC configuration files by booting from DTK Linux ISO image and running the syscap.sh, raidcap.sh, and raccap.sh scripts. 5.
d. For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, run export DT_OS_NFS_LOC=:/. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 deployment is supported only on Dell Precision R7910 and on Dell PowerEdge 13G servers. 16. From /opt/dell/toolkit/template/scripts, run /lininst.sh (for 5.x and 6.x) or /lininst7.sh (for 7.x) script. The server reboots to the grub prompt. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system unattended installation proceeds. NOTE: For more information on installing, see en.community.
The server reboots to the grub prompt. The SUSE Linux Enterprise Linux operating system unattended installation proceeds. Upgrading Your DTK Version When upgrading from a previous release of DTK, ensure that you create the environment for new DTK version separately from the previous version. This step is necessary because the environments and requirements for the new DTK versions are completely different.
