CHAPTER 4 Installation of Operating System and bundled software 4.1 Installation procedure of Operating System and bundled software

CHAPTER 4 Installation of Operating System and bundled software

The installation method of operating system and the bundled software is explained here.

4.1Installation procedure of Operating System and bundled

software

When Boot Watchdog is enabled, during installation operation, partition reset may occur unpredictably by Boot Watchdog function. Therefore, Boot Watchdog is cancelled before operating system is installed. For the cancellation method see "9.4.1 Automatic reboot condition setting of partition" of PRIMEQUEST 2000 series Administration Manual (C122-E175EN). SVIM(ServerView Installation Manager) is used to install operating system in the partition of PRIMEQUEST 2000 series. SVIM is a setup support tool to execute the below mentioned operations.

-Installation of operating system

-Installation of driver necessary for the operating system

-Installation of the bundled software

For the software which is automatically installed by using SVIM see "3.3 Bundled software" of PRIMEQUEST 2000 series Product Description (C122-B025EN).

For SVIM outline see ServerView Suite ServerView Installation Manager.

Moreover, there are points to be noted for SVIM. See the list of points to be noted for the PRIMEQUEST 2000 series ServerViewSuite .

Notes

Confirm the installation of SAN boot environment, installation of VMware as follows.

-Configuration of SAN boot environment

When SAN boot environment is to be installed, the SAN boot environment is configured before the operating system is installed.

For the construction of SAN boot environment, see PRIMEQUEST 2000sSeries SAN Boot Environment Configuration Manual (C122-E155) .

-When the installation VMware of operating system and the bundled software is to be installed then the procedure is different. For the installation procedure of VMware, see “Appendix D Notes on VMware installation”.

All the inserted windows are examples of display and the contents displayed by the system configuration, etc. are different.

4.2Procedure to install Windows in SAN/iSCSI storage device

Here, the procedure to install Windows in SAN storage device is explained. Start the installation after confirming the MMB configuration setting and successful login to the MMB. For the settings of SAN storage device, FC-card, Converged Network Adapter and NIC for iSCSI Boot, see PRIMEQUEST 1000/2000 Series SAN Boot Environment Configuration Manual (C122-E155) .

4.2.1Presetting

The following settings are done if necessary.

1.LUN of SAN storage device is set.

2.[PCI ROM Priority] of BIOS is set. - For the UEFI Install

- Set [Device Manager]-[PCI Subsystem Configuration]-[PCI ROM Priority] of BIOS menu to ”EFI Compatible

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