HP Insight Cluster Management Utility Preparing for installation, HP Insight CMU kit delivery

Otherwise, if your node is wired with a dedicated management port for LO100i:

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BMC NIC Allocation Dedicated

LAN protocol: HTTP, telnet, ping Enabled

•Remote Access

◦ BIOS Serial console Enabled

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EMS console support Enabled

Flow control Node

Redirection after BIOS POST Enabled

Serial port 9600 8,n,1

•Boot device priority

◦ Network ( 0500 )

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Removable device

Hard Disk

•Enable PXE for the NIC that is connected to the administration network.

2.2Preparing for installation

2.2.1 HP Insight CMU kit delivery

The HP Insight CMU kit is delivered on CD-ROM and is provided in the appropriate format for your operating system. These features enable HP Insight CMU files to be installed directly from the CD-ROM to your disk. The Linux versions of HP Insight CMU are in the Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) format.

2.2.2Preinstallation limitations

•HP Insight CMU does not support Microsoft Windows compute nodes.

•HP Insight CMU monitors only the compute nodes and not the infrastructure of the cluster.

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HP Insight CMU requires that each partition of the golden image node is at least 50% free. Alternatively, if this condition cannot be satisfied, then the largest partition of the golden node must be less than or equal to the compute node memory size.

HP Insight CMU does not support software RAID or LVM on compute nodes.

HP Insight CMU only clones one disk or logical drive per compute node.

IMPORTANT:

HP Insight CMU does not support RAID arrays on compute nodes with fake RAID controllers, for example smart array B110i/B120i/B320i RAID controllers. Any attempts to backup or clone these compute nodes will fail.

NOTE: You can partially overcome some of these limitations by using a reconfiguration script after cloning. For more information about reconfiguration, see “Reconfiguration” (page 52).

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