You can deploy Windows and non-Windows operating systems
on a collection and the operating system deployment is only supported
for deploying operating systems on multiple servers.
During the operating system deployment, the status
and progress of installation is displayed in the DLCI task viewer.
After installing the operating system, the system is
added to a collection and is identified as Managed Dell Lifecycle
Controller Servers<OS Name>.
Where OS Name is any of the following:
Windows
operating systems
Red Hat Enterprise
Linux
ESXi
NOTE After deploying non-windows
operating systems, the service tag of the system name is displayed
as host name in Configuration Manager console.
ESXi installation is supported only on a hard disk
for this release.
For ESXi, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the operating
system is installed on the first disk with default configuration.
For Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the following are set:
Language
is set to US
Keyboard
is set to US (U.S. English)
By default,
Time zone is set to America, New York
For deploying the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5, Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 operating systems, DLCI requires all the
drivers on the given ISO and DLCI assumes that all the drivers are
available on the given ISO for the given platform. Only packages available
in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux repository are installed.
NOTE For deploying
RHEL, use the Dell customized ISO.
During deployment, the following packages are installed
in Red Hat Enterprise Linux repository:
@base
@client-mgmt-tools
@console-internet
@core
@debugging
@directory-client
@hardware-monitoring
@java-platform
@large-systems
@network-file-system-client
@performance
@perl-runtime
@server-platform
@server-policy
pax
python-dmidecode
oddjob
sgpio
certmonger
pam_krb5
krb5-workstation
perl-DBD-SQLite
For deploying ESXi, use the Dell customized ISO available
at Dell.com/support/home.
Provide the ISO share on an NFS share. This share
is used by DLCI to extract the ISO and create a custom ISO. The custom
ISOs are saved on the same share.
Dell recommends that the machine with the NFS share
is not connected to the internet.
DLCI clears all the partitions on the target system
before installing any non-Windows operating system.
The pre-operating system image is mounted as a virtual
media over the network and the drivers for the target host operating
system are applied, either from the Configuration Manager console
repository or the Lifecycle Controller.
If you select drivers from the Lifecycle Controller,
the list of operating systems supported is based on the current driver
pack flashed on the iDRAC. You can also download an ISO image to the
vFlash SD card on the target system and boot the system to the downloaded
ISO image.
NOTE vFlash
features can only be used on rack and tower servers with Integrated
Dell Remote Access Controller version 1.3 firmware or later, or on
blade servers with Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller version
2.2 or later.
For more information on remote operating system deployment
and staging and booting to operating system image on vFlash, see the Dell Lifecycle Controller User Guide available at Dell.com/support/home.
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