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......................
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.
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. Organize DTK utilities, script files, configuration files, the operating system installation files, and the required system files and drivers on a network share or local media. 3.
17. Set the environment variable DT_DRIVE=Z:. 18. Run the script (W2K8INST.BAT or W2K12INST.BATor W2K16INST.BAT) to install the required version of Windows Server operating system. 19. Select the required operating system. The operating system installation starts and goes on unattended. After the operating system is installed, the Set Up Windows screen is displayed.
NOTE: The unattendClient.xml file is for Windows client operating system (32–bit and 64–bit) in BIOS mode and unattendClient_uefi.xml is for Windows client operating system (64–bit) in UEFI mode. 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.
Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Operating System using DTK CAUTION: Do not change the bootmode before executing installation scripts using syscfg. If you do, reboot the system and start executing installation scripts. NOTE: See your operating system documentation for instructions on modifying the options in the ks.cfg/ks-rhelx.cfg/ ks_rhelx_uefi.cfg file to customize the scripted installation of your operating system, where x indicates the version of the operating system.
NOTE: Using RACADM scripts is an alternative method to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux server operating system. This feature is supported on Dell’s 12th generation of PowerEdge Servers and later systems. For information see, Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit User’s Guide or Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit Command Line Interface Reference Guide available at dell.com/openmanagemanuals . To convert from DTK to RACADM deployment and to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux using the lininst.sh / lininst7.
Converting to RACADM and installing SUSE Linux server Operating System using RACADM scripts 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.
Here, x indicates the version of the operating system. In BIOS mode, rename the ks_centosx.cfg to ks.cfg. In UEFI mode, rename the ks_centosx_uefi.cfg to ks.cfg. 13. Edit ks.cfg (in BIOS mode) or ks_centosx_uefi.cfg (in UEFI mode) on the source system, where x indicates the version of the operating system. Set the NFS IP address (where CentOS Linux images are available) and the NFS share path. 14. Export the environment variables as follows: a. b. c. d.
Run the following command, to installs all the available tools. Any other option is ignored. ./DTKTOOLS__Linux64_.Bin —f [-- force] Provides the help option in the command line ./DTKTOOLS__Linux64_.Bin —h [-- help] Once the DTK tools installation is complete, the same is displayed on the screen. To uninstall, run the command ./DTKTOOLS__Linux64_.
