Dell Server Assistant
Installation and Server Management
System Build & Update Utility
They work by slipstreaming drivers into a Windows 2003 installation off a Windows CD or an ISO presented over a DRAC connection virtual media session.
Unfortunately I needed to install Windows 2003 (in order to get SP1 installed). This meant using the ISM version 5.2 and the only version that supported this was for 9th Gen I servers (with a PERC5 controller). Booting resulted in no hard disks detected.
So the other way to get the OS installed is to boot off Windows media (or DRAC Virtual Media) and press F6 for an OEM driver disk.
The drivers are easily downloadable from the Dell drivers page - you just need the hard disk unzip package which contains the .cat, .sys, .inf and oemsetup.inf files. These then need to be turned into a floppy image and mounted via the drac.
This is where the "virtual media session already exists" error pops up. I'm not sure the root cause but a workaround is to use the virtual flash.
In order to do this you need to upload the floppy image to the virtual flash and enable it under the virtual media configuration tab with the tickbox.
Once this is done, you need to change the boot order to the virtual flash is higher than the physical floppy or virtual floppy.
Once you've done all this, the windows setup wizard should find the perc6 driver mapped as A: on the virtual flash when you press F6.
For this guide, I used the latest DRAC version (1.65) and the Java Virtual Media plugin.
