HP Integrated Lights-Out manual ILO Virtual CD-ROM, Select Local CD-ROM Drive

72 User Guide Integrated Lights-Out

Changing Diskettes

When using the iLO virtual floppy drive, and the physical floppy drive on the client machine is a USB floppy drive, disk change operations will not be recognized. For example, in this configuration, if a directory listing is obtained from a floppy diskette and the diskette is changed, a subsequent directory listing will show the listing for the first diskette. If disk changes are necessary when using iLO virtual floppy, make sure the client machine contains a non-USB floppy drive.

iLO Virtual CD-ROM

The iLO Virtual CD-ROM is available at server boot time for operating systems specified in the "Operating System USB Support (on page 65)" section. Booting from the iLO Virtual CD-ROM enables you to deploy an operating system from network drives, and perform disaster recovery of failed operating systems, among other tasks.

If the host server operating system supports USB mass storage devices, then the iLO Virtual CD-ROM is also available after the host server operating system loads. You can use the iLO Virtual CD-ROM when the host server operating system is running to upgrade device drivers, install software, and perform other tasks. Having the Virtual CD-ROM available when the server is running can be especially useful if the administrator must diagnose and repair a problem with the NIC driver.

The Virtual CD-ROM can be the physical CD-ROM drive on which you are running the Web browser, or an image file stored on your local hard drive or network drive. For maximum performance, HP recommends the use of local image files stored either on the hard drive of your client PC or on a network drive accessible through a high-speed network link.

To use a physical CD-ROM drive in your client PC:

1.Select Local CD-ROM Drive.

2.Select the drive letter of the desired physical CD-ROM drive on your client PC from the dropdown menu.