HP Integrity iLO 2 MP 5991-6005 manual Virtual Media, Virtual Serial Port

•View and interact with the boot sequence of your server.

•Perform maintenance activities in text mode.

•Manage non-graphical mode operating systems.

The console window remains open until you sign out of the iLO 2 MP interface using the provided link in the banner, leave the iLO 2 MP site, or refresh the entire page.

The remote serial console provides the console, and the GUI provides the iLO 2 MP Main Menu functionality.

Output from the console is stored in nonvolatile memory in the console log, regardless of whether or not any users are connected to a console. The Remote Serial Console page refreshes every 10 seconds.

The remote serial console option relies on the virtual serial port.

Virtual Serial Port

The iLO 2 MP contains a virtual serial port that enables it to actually be the console hardware device for the OS. This port is a serial interface between the host system and the iLO 2 MP. The iLO 2 MP converts the serial data stream to be available remotely through the remote serial console (a VT320 Java applet). The virtual serial port must be correctly enabled and configured in the host.

The virtual serial port function is a bidirectional data flow of the data stream appearing on the server's serial port. Using the remote console paradigm, a remote user can operate as if a physical serial connection is present on the server's serial port.

With the virtual serial port feature of iLO, an administrator can access a console application such as Windows EMS remotely over the network. The iLO 2 MP contains the functional equivalent of the standard serial port (16550 UART) register set, and the iLO firmware provides a Java applet that connects to the server serial port. If the serial redirection feature is enabled on the host server, iLO intercepts the data coming from the serial port, encrypts it, and sends it to the web browser applet.

For Linux users, the iLO virtual serial port feature provides an important function for remote access to the Linux server. By configuring a Linux login process attached to the server’s serial port, you can use the iLO virtual serial port feature to remotely login to the Linux operating system over the network.

For more information on using the virtual serial port, see Integrated Lights-Out Virtual Serial Port configuration and operation HOW TO on the HP website at:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00263709/c00263709.pdf

Virtual Media

Virtual Media (vMedia) provides you with virtual devices that mimic physical hardware devices such as a virtual floppy disk drive and a CD/DVD drive that connects through the network to the managed server just as if it was physically connected. The vMedia device can be a physical CD/DVD drive on the management workstation, or it can be an image file stored on a local disk drive or network drive.

Booting from the iLO 2 MP CD/DVD enables administrators to upgrade the host system ROM, upgrade device drivers, deploy an OS from network drives, and perform disaster recovery of failed operating systems, among other tasks.

The iLO 2 MP device uses a client-server model to perform the vMedia functions. The iLO 2 MP device streams the vMedia data across a live network connection between the remote management console and the host server. The vMedia Java applet provides data to the iLO 2 MP as it requests it.

The Virtual Media page refreshes every 10 seconds. Only one user can connect a virtual device at a time.

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