Dell IDRAC6 Laptop User Manual


 
12 Contents
12 Deploying Your Operating
System Using VMCLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Before You Begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Remote System Requirements
. . . . . . . . . . 239
Network Requirements
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Creating a Bootable Image File
. . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Creating an Image File for Linux Systems
. . . . 240
Creating an Image File for
Windows Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Preparing for Deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Configuring the Remote Systems
. . . . . . . . . 240
Deploying the Operating System
. . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Using the VMCLI Utility
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
Installing the VMCLI Utility
. . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Command Line Options
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
VMCLI Parameters
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
VMCLI Operating System Shell Options . . . . . 247
13 Configuring Intelligent Platform
Management Interface (IPMI)
. . . . . . . 249
Configuring IPMI Using Web-Based Interface . . . . 249
Configuring IPMI Using the RACADM CLI
. . . . . . . 249
Using the IPMI Remote Access
Serial Interface
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Configuring Serial Over LAN Using
the Web-Based Interface
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254