Dell Deployment Toolkit for 15G

Hi,

DTK is still Version 6.3 as long as no newer version is released there is no option to download this.

Do you have any other questions?

Regards Martin

It is deprecated for 15G

From:

https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/en-id/openmanage-deployment-toolkit-v6.0.1/dtk_windows_6.0.1_release_notes/dtk-deprecation-message?guid=guid-b1ae45a4-6fce-4b5d-b783-fd18cd30a580&lang=en-us

NOTE: DTK will continue to support any new hardware or operating system for the 14th generation of PowerEdge servers. However, support for later generations of PowerEdge servers will be deprecated. For more information about features supported by DTK, see the latest User's Guide available at dell.com/openmanagemanuals .

Historical DTK with syscfg, raidcfg, etc is deprecated but the "DTK" like package with only racadm is available as "Dell EMC iDRAC Tools for Microsoft WinPE"
https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=ygnhx&oscode=w12r2&productcode=poweredge-r640

It's a shame that they deprecated the DTK and moving towards racadm. If you're dealing a hundred or thousand of nodes in a Linux HPC cluster, DTK tools are the Swiss knife in customizing bios/raid configuration. We can easily script the tools with our HPC provisioning tool (i.e. xcat) 

Agreed. Syscfg and raidcfg are way easier to use and way faster than racadm LC jobs. I specifically like syscfg. Perccli is still fully supported though for storage and I prefer it over racadm with LC jobs for setting up storage.

Correction: I have found that perccli does not work in winpe even after loading HAPI drivers. The disk controllers are not seen. However, storcli (LSI version of perccli) does have documentation around getting it to work in WinPE so perccli probably could work if I tried harder.

Being forced to use racadm in winpe for storage setting is frustrating as racadm with LC jobs are WAY slower and more temperamental than perccli.