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Intel(R) Deployment Assistant 4.0 RC3 Release Notes
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Intel Enterprise Platform & Services Division - Marketing
Intel Corporation
2111 N.E. 25th Avenue, Hillsboro, OR 97124 USA
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DATE : Jan 30, 2011
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ABOUT THIS RELEASE
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The Intel(R) Deployment Assistant(IDA) utility is provided to simplify, accelerate,
standardize and clarify the process of building, loading, and deploying Intel(R)
Server products. It provides a single interface with an easy to use HTML like
graphic UI to ease the process of setting up and deploying an EPSD server from
initial boot through the initiation of an unattended OS installation.
It can also be used to update the BIOS, firmware, and SDRs as a maintenance activity.
No installation is required for Intel(R) Deployment Assistant.
Simply place the Deployment Assistant CD in a bootable CD-ROM drive and power on the
server. Intel(R) Deployment Assistant will start automatically.
Supported Features
- System Update This feature supports server BIOS, updates
with System Firmware Update Package.
- Server Settings This allows to setup server BIOS and BMC
- System Information Asset tag can be set by this feature
- Simplified RAID Configuration This allows user to setup all Intel brand or OEMed RAID device
with a simple and uniform user interface.
- OS Installation This feature allows user to unattended install Windows*/Linux* OS.
- Multi-Server Cloning Supports to clone deployment from one server to
multiple servers with PXE image or bootable USB key
settings as well as system update packages.
- USB Key Boot This feature allows user to boot IDA and perform all
IDA operation from USB key instead of a CD.
Boot Side Features Details:
- Detect and display the server components and system software stack versions.
- Automatically locate and download System Firmware Update Package from support.intel.com
- Retrieve the update packages from a network shared drive or from a USB key.
- Choose which items from the update package to install on the local server.
- Configure onboard RAID and add-in Intel(R) RAID Controllers
- Configure and launch an 'unattended OS' installation script(from OS CDs)
- Supported OS (for un-attended installation)
. Red Hat* Enterprise Linux* 5 U5 (32-bit)
. Red Hat* Enterprise Linux* 5 U5 (64-bit)
. Red Hat* Enterprise Linux* 6 (32-bit)
. Red Hat* Enterprise Linux* 6 (X86-64)
. SUSE* Linux* Enterprise Server 11 (32-bit)
. SUSE* Linux* Enterprise Server 11 (X86-64)
. SUSE* Linux* Enterprise Server 10 SP3 (32-bit)
. SUSE* Linux* Enterprise Server 10 SP3 (x86-64)
. Microsoft(R) Windows* Server 2003 SP2 (32-bit)
. Microsoft(R) Windows* Server 2003 SP2 (64-bit)
. Microsoft(R) Windows* Server 2008 SP2 (32-bit)
. Microsoft(R) Windows* Server 2008 R2 (64-bit)
. Microsoft(R) Windows* 7 (32-bit)
. Microsoft(R) Windows* 7 (64-bit)
. VMware* ESX 4.0 Update1 (X86-64)
. VMware* ESXi 4.1 (X86-64)
- The IDA multi-server cloning feature is designed for users who need to repeat
the same deployment work on more than one server which have the same hardware
configuration. This feature deployment can improve server efficiency and save
user’s human resource via copying all deployment work on first server to other
servers automatically.
- OS Present features (CD browse)
With an OS already running, insert the CD.
Features:
. Autorun to HTML menu (Windows only)
. Locate Device drivers by OS.
. Documentation
. Customer Support Contact Information
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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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Intel(R)Deployment Assistant 4.0 hardware minimum requirements:
- 512 MB RAM, (1024 MB preferred)
- Mouse and Keyboard
- CD-ROM drive or USB key
- Monitor resolution of at least 1024x768
- Hard drive required only for unattended OS installations.
Suggested size for OS partition of at least 6GB.
Drive must be on Intel's Tested Hardware List (THOL).
- To download drivers or firmware from the Intel support site,
the server must be connected to the Internet with only one network port
from the server connected.
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Supported Platforms
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Intel(R) Server Board S1200BT
Intel(R) Server Board S3420GP
Intel(R) Server Board S3210SH
Intel(R) Server Board X38ML
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Supported RAID Controllers
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- SAS ROMB (SROMBSASMR), Embedded RAID level 0. 1, Hardware RAID level 0. 1, 5
- SRCSASBB8I
- SRCSASPH16I
- SRCSAS144E
- RMS2LL040
- RMS2AF080
- RMS2AF040
- RMS2MH080
- RS2WC080
- RS2WC160
- ICH10, Embedded RAID level 0, 1
- FALSASMP2
- SRCSAS18E
- SRCSAS144E
- SRCSASJV
- SRCSASRB
- SRCSATAWB
- SRCSASPH16I
- SRCSASBB8I
- SRCSASLS4I
- SASMF8I
- SASWT4I
- SASUC8I
For details on Intel RAID cards, please refer Intel Web site:
http://www.intel.com/products/server/raid/
Note: Intel(R) Matrix RAID is not supported by IDA
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Considerations and Known Issues
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- IDA may fail to perform Red Hat* Enterprise Linux* 6 unattended installation on
S1200BT ESRTII software RAID due to driver reason. This issue will be fixed by
next release, user still can manually install Red Hat* Enterprise Linux* 6 on S1200BT.
- IDA may report error message about missing CD/DVD when install Windows* 2008
on S1200BT ESRTII software RAID with a SATA CD/DVD-ROM. Using a USB CD/DVD-ROM
can avoid this problem.
- The static IP address cannot be saved to OS when using IDA to perform
Windows* 2003 and 2008 unattended OS installation.
- IDA cannot set password with special characters for BIOS admin and user account.
- IDA may report an error message when set BMC channel 1 and 3 to DHCP both on S1200BT,
this is a BMC FW issue. Check Intel support web site Http://www.intel.com/support
to download the last FW for S1200BT.
- IDA cannot set BMC alert as email and SNMP alert at the same time. This is a BMC
FW issue. Check Intel support web site Http://www.intel.com/support to download
the last FW for S1200BT.
- IDA cannot enable BMC alert channel 1 and 3 at the same time, separately enable
BMC alert on channel 1 and 3 are OK.
- IDA can enable 4 iBMC accounts, includes anonymous user, user 3, user 4 and
user 5. IDA cannot set user 2 (root)
- IDA allows maximum 63 characters for BMC DHCP host name
- User can access BMC with fully qualified domain name (FQDN)from different domain,
DHCP host name is not enough to find BMC IP in some network environment.
- IDA may detect RAID controller AXX4SASMOD ESRTII model as IR RAID model, it
doesn't impact actual function
- After IDA configure onboard ESRTII RAID for several times, IDA may report
“This controller is not ready for configuration, Please reboot the system
and try later[0x10000056]”, reboot server and try again, this issue can be avoided.
- When using IDA OS installation of Red Hat* Enterprise Linux* Server 5 unattended,
the setup may stop proceeding at the driver selection page. User needs to select
a driver manually.
- IDA patch update can create new IDA version on an USB key and boot server with this
USB key, but if user boots server to IDA with a USB key, IDA cannot create
a new version of the same USB key with IDA patch update function.
- IDA may hang on "creating clone image" page if server system memory is less than 512MB
- SATA mode in BIOS should be same between first server and other server when cloning
OS with IDA
- When cloning OS with IDA, the first server should only has one storage volume
- If cloning BIOS configuration with IDA, the BIOS password should be null on other servers
- In cloning BIOS configuration includes boot order, the original boot order status of
other servers should exactly the same as the first, otherwise, the boot order
cannot be replicated.
- When cloning OS with IDA, the onboard NIC1 should connect with network.
- For Windows* 2003 installation cloning, if the file server which shares OS CD content
is Windows* 2003, ensure that Windows* Administrative Tools ->
Domain Controller Security Policy -> Local Policies -> Security Options
-> Microsoft network server: Digitally sign communications (always) is disabled.
Also disable: Microsoft network server: Digitally sign communications (if client agrees)
to keep from getting a Permission denied.
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Note: IDA 4.0 open source package can be found at support site
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