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book.book Page 2 Thursday, February 5, 2009 5:20 PM Notes and Cautions NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of your computer. CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates potential damage to hardware or loss of data if instructions are not followed. ____________________ Information in this document is subject to change without notice. © 2009 Dell Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction of these materials in any manner whatsoever without the written permission of Dell Inc.
book.book Page 3 Thursday, February 5, 2009 5:20 PM Contents 1 About This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Who Should Read This Document? . . . . . . . . . . . . How Will This Document Help Me? . . . . . . . . . . . . What Is The Scope Of This Document? How Do I Use This Document? 2 7 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Dell Deployment Pack Overview . How Does Dell Deployment Pack Help? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dell Deployment Pack Features Overview 9 9 10 . . . . .
book.book Page 4 Thursday, February 5, 2009 5:20 PM 4 Installing and Uninstalling the Dell Deployment Pack . . . . . . . . . . . . Installing the Dell Deployment Pack . . . . . . . . . . Uninstalling the Dell Deployment Pack . 5 . . . . . . . . Using The Dell Deployment Pack . . . . . Is There Anything I Must Do After The First Time I Install Dell Deployment Pack? . How Do I Update and Manage Distribution Points? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 . . . . . . . . 19 . . . . . . . . . . . .
book.book Page 5 Thursday, February 5, 2009 5:20 PM How Do I Configure The Task Sequence Steps To Apply Operating System Image And Driver Package? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Operating System Image Adding Drivers How Do I Advertise A Task Sequence? . . . . . . . . . 36 Best Practices For Advertising a Task Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 How Do I Deploy A Task Sequence? . . . . . . . . . .
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book.book Page 7 Thursday, February 5, 2009 5:20 PM About This Document It is strongly recommended that you read this section, "Dell Deployment Pack Overview," and "Before You Begin With The Dell Deployment Pack" before proceeding further. Who Should Read This Document? This document is for system administrators who are responsible for deploying and configuring Dell systems in their organization.
book.book Page 8 Thursday, February 5, 2009 5:20 PM How Do I Use This Document? Information in this document is organized as listed in Table 1-1. Table 1-1. Organization of Information in This Guide Topic Where in this Guide Information on this document, its intended audience, purpose, and organization. "About This Document" Overview of the Dell Deployment Pack and what functionalities it offers.
book.book Page 9 Thursday, February 5, 2009 5:20 PM Dell Deployment Pack Overview This section provides an overview of the Dell™ Deployment Pack. This section helps you to understand the functionalities that the Dell Deployment Pack provides to update and deploy your Dell systems.
book.book Page 10 Thursday, February 5, 2009 5:20 PM How Does Dell Deployment Pack Help? The Dell Deployment Pack is an easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI) based tool that integrates directly into the Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (ConfigMgr) console. It eliminates the need for command-line tools and scripts normally used in the DTK.
book.book Page 11 Thursday, February 5, 2009 5:20 PM Before You Begin With The Dell Deployment Pack This section lists the prerequisites and requirements to use Dell™ Deployment Pack. It also contains information on other documents that may be needed while using this tool. Prerequisites And Requirements • You should be familiar with deploying operating systems using Microsoft® System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) 2007 SP1. • You should have the ConfigMgr 2007 SP1 installed on a system.
book.book Page 12 Thursday, February 5, 2009 5:20 PM Supported Operating Systems For the list of operating systems that the Dell Deployment Pack supports, see the readme.txt in the Docs folder under the Installation directory. Supported Systems For the list of Dell systems that can be deployed using Dell Deployment Pack, see the readme.txt in the Docs folder under the Installation directory.
book.book Page 13 Thursday, February 5, 2009 5:20 PM • The Dell Baseboard Management Controller Utilities User's Guide provides information about configuring a managed system to use the BMC Management Utility to manage your system through its BMC. • The Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit User's Guide provides general, best practices procedures that focus on the basic tasks for a successful deployment using Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE) or embedded Linux.
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book.book Page 15 Thursday, February 5, 2009 5:20 PM Installing and Uninstalling the Dell Deployment Pack This section describes the procedure to install and uninstall the Dell™ Deployment Pack. Installing the Dell Deployment Pack Before you proceed, ensure that you are logged in as administrator on the system where you want to install the Dell Deployment Pack. To install the Dell Deployment Pack: 1 Go to the Dell Support website at support.dell.com→ Drivers & Downloads.
book.book Page 16 Thursday, February 5, 2009 5:20 PM The Dell Deployment Pack is installed on your system. Ensure that you read "Is There Anything I Must Do After The First Time I Install Dell Deployment Pack?" before proceeding further. Uninstalling the Dell Deployment Pack By design, the uninstall process does not remove the Dell Deployment Pack boot images created during installation.
book.book Page 17 Thursday, February 5, 2009 5:20 PM Using The Dell Deployment Pack Before you begin configuring your system, ensure you have set up your system and your environment using Microsoft® System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) 2007 SP1. See the Microsoft TechNet site at technet.microsoft.com for details. This document describes a typical scenario for a Dell™ PowerEdge™ 1950 system. It does not cover all possible scenarios nor does it cover all sequences possible to deploy your system.
book.book Page 18 Thursday, February 5, 2009 5:20 PM 4 Right-click Dell PowerEdge Custom Reboot Script. Click Manage Distribution Points. 5 The Manage Distribution Point Wizard displays. Click Next and proceed through the wizard to manage the distribution points. (See the online help or the ConfigMgr documentation for details.) 6 Repeat step 1 through step 5 for Dell PowerEdge Deployment Toolkit Integration and ConfigMgr Client Package (under Packages).
book.book Page 19 Thursday, February 5, 2009 5:20 PM 15 Click Close. 16 To update and manage distribution points for the driver packages you imported, go to Driver Packages→ Dell PowerEdge Driver Packages The driver packages window displays. Right-click each of the newly imported driver packages and perform the update and manage distribution points operations.
book.book Page 20 Thursday, February 5, 2009 5:20 PM 3 Right-click Task Sequences, then Bare Metal Server Deployment→ Create a PowerEdge Deployment Template. The Create Server Deployment Task Sequence window displays. 4 Enter the name of the task sequence in Task Sequence Name field. 5 Under Server Hardware Configuration select the hardware items that you want to configure in this task sequence. 6 Under Network (Admin) Account, enter your account name and password.
book.book Page 21 Thursday, February 5, 2009 5:20 PM 5 Enter name, version number, and comments for the task sequence. 6 Browse for the boot image under Dell Deployment, select the appropriate boot image , and click Finish. A confirmation message displays. You have created a new custom task sequence. Editing a Task Sequence 1 Once you have created a new task sequence (or in case of an existing task sequence), right click the task sequence and click Edit.
book.book Page 22 Thursday, February 5, 2009 5:20 PM To resolve this issue, you must insert custom reboot actions after you create and partition a disk. If you are using Pre-boot eXecution Environment (PXE) instead of boot media, you must reset the PXE advertisement in order to reboot back into PXE.
book.book Page 23 Thursday, February 5, 2009 5:20 PM From the Task Sequence Editor, under the Action Settings tab, select the following: Configuration action type: BIOS Config (.ini file) NOTE: You can also select BIOS Config (command line) if you want configure system using the CLI option. This usage is beyond the scope of this document. See the Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit Command Line Interface Reference Guide on the Dell support site at www.dell.com for details.
book.book Page 24 Thursday, February 5, 2009 5:20 PM The Import button displays. 1 Click Import to import an existing .ini file. Edit This is a sample BIOS .ini file. The View button displays. 1 Click View to see the existing syscfg.ini file. 2 In the Configuration File Editor window, you can edit the syscfg.ini file, select the Save these changes to the existing file in the toolkit package when I click OK option and click OK. Once you have created the .
book.book Page 25 Thursday, February 5, 2009 5:20 PM 1 Select from the Configuration file / Command line parameters drop-down menu. Click Create. The Array Builder wizard displays. 2 Enter the configuration rule name in the Configuration Rule Name field. 3 Select the error handling rule from the drop-down menu.
book.book Page 26 Thursday, February 5, 2009 5:20 PM Using the Array Builder Using Array Builder, you can define arrays/disk sets with all available RAID settings, logical drives/virtual disks of varying sizes or use all available space, and assign hot spares to individual arrays or assign global hot spares to the controller.
book.book Page 27 Thursday, February 5, 2009 5:20 PM When a controller is created, a default variable condition, array and disk(s) are created to ensure a valid configuration. You can choose to leave the controller unconfigured - with disks set to non-RAID, or you can add arrays or do other actions. Adding a Controller 1 To add a new controller, select a controller from the list, or select an embedded controller. The Controllers drop-down menu to your left is enabled. 2 Click Controllers→ New Controller.
book.book Page 28 Thursday, February 5, 2009 5:20 PM Deleting a Controller 1 To delete a controller select the controller and click Controllers→ Delete Controller. You will receive a warning that all the attached arrays and disks will be deleted. 2 Click Yes to delete or No to cancel. NOTE: There must be at least one controller present on the system. If there is only one controller and you delete it, a message displays that the default controller was inserted because the last controller was deleted.
book.book Page 29 Thursday, February 5, 2009 5:20 PM Editing a Variable Condition 1 To edit a variable condition, select the variable condition and click Variables→ Edit Variable Condition. The Variable Condition Configuration window displays where you can make changes to your variable condition. 2 Click OK to apply the variable condition, or Cancel to return to Array Builder.
book.book Page 30 Thursday, February 5, 2009 5:20 PM Editing an Array 1 To edit an array, select the array and click Arrays→ Edit Array. The Array Settings window displays. Here you can select a different RAID level for the array. 2 Click OK to apply the changes, or Cancel to return to Array Builder. Deleting an Array 1 To delete an array, select the array and click Arrays→ Delete Array. A message displays that all the attached disks will be deleted. 2 Click Yes to delete or No to cancel.
book.book Page 31 Thursday, February 5, 2009 5:20 PM Deleting a Logical Drive 1 To delete a logical drive, select the logical drive and click Logical Drives→ Delete Logical Drive. A message displays to confirm the delete operation. 2 Click Yes to delete or No to cancel.
book.book Page 32 Thursday, February 5, 2009 5:20 PM Changing a Disk To change a disk, click on the disk and select Disks→ Change Disk. You can change a disk to: • Standard disk • Hot spare (only for the current array) • Global hot spare (all arrays) Deleting a Disk To delete a disk, click on the disk and select Disks→ Delete Disk. Exporting to XML This menu item allows you to save the current configuration in an XML file to a location of your choice.
book.book Page 33 Thursday, February 5, 2009 5:20 PM Creating Task Sequences for RAID, BMC, and DRAC From the Configuration action type menu you can select the options listed in Table 5-1 to create task sequences for RAID, BMC, BIOS, and DRAC. Table 5-1. Options And Suboptions In Configuration Action Type Menu Option Suboptions Description RAID Configuration (.ini file) 5i-raid0.ini Sample file for RAID 0. 5i-raid1.ini Sample file for RAID 1. 5i-raid5.ini Sample file for RAID 5. raidcfg.
book.book Page 34 Thursday, February 5, 2009 5:20 PM Table 5-1. Options And Suboptions In Configuration Action Type Menu (continued) Option Suboptions Description RAC Configuration (RAC 4) For a similar example for the BIOS option, see "." For a similar example for the BIOS option, see "". rac4cfg.ini Use the existing raccfg.ini file to configure DRAC 4. See "Edit
book.book Page 35 Thursday, February 5, 2009 5:20 PM The Computer Association node displays a list of the computer associations that have been created. It also displays specific actions that can be run for that computer association when you select a computer association from the Computer Association results pane. To import computer information: 1 From the left-hand side of the Configuration Manager Console, under Operating System Deployment, right-click Computer Association→ Import Computer Information.
book.book Page 36 Thursday, February 5, 2009 5:20 PM How Do I Configure The Task Sequence Steps To Apply Operating System Image And Driver Package? The scope of this document includes information only on the Dell Deployment Pack feature to apply operating system image and add Dell drivers. Operating System Image NOTE: Before you begin this task, ensure that you have the required operating system image file (.wim file) within the Operating System Images tree in ConfigMgr.
book.book Page 37 Thursday, February 5, 2009 5:20 PM How Do I Advertise A Task Sequence? After saving the task sequence, assign it to the collection of systems by advertising it. To advertise a task sequence: 1 Right-click on the task sequence and select Advertise. The New Advertisement Wizard window displays. 2 Refer the ConfigMgr Online Help on how to advertise a task sequence.
book.book Page 38 Thursday, February 5, 2009 5:20 PM How Do I Deploy A Task Sequence? Now that the task sequence is ready, use any of the following methods to deploy the task sequence you have created: • Deploy through a CD • Deploy through a USB • Deploy through PXE For more information on how to deploy a task sequence using the above methods, see the ConfigMgr Online Help. Troubleshooting For troubleshooting information, see the Microsoft TechNet site at technet.microsoft.com.
book.book Page 39 Thursday, February 5, 2009 5:20 PM Glossary Array Builder Array Builder is a tool that defines rules for configuring array controllers on target systems based on several variable factors. By taking a rules-based approach, you can define standard array configurations for your organization and configure your systems according to these standards, without having to know the exact physical configuration of the array controller and disks before you begin your deployment.
book.book Page 40 Thursday, February 5, 2009 5:20 PM device driver A program that allows the operating system or some other program to interface correctly with a peripheral device, such as a printer. Some device drivers—such as network drivers—must be loaded from the config.sys file (with a device= statement) or as memory-resident programs (usually, from the autoexec.bat file). Others—such as video drivers—must load when you start the program for which they were designed.
book.book Page 41 Thursday, February 5, 2009 5:20 PM RAID Acronym for Redundant Array of Independent Disks. system.ini file A start-up file for the Windows operating system. When you start Windows, it consults the system.ini file to determine a variety of options for the Windows operating environment. Among other things, the system.ini file records which video, mouse, and keyboard drivers are installed for Windows. Running the Control Panel or Windows Setup program may change options in the system.
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