H3C UniServer R4900 G3 Operating System Installation Guide

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Figure 78 Installing the OS
13. To manually partition the disk:
a. Click Partitioning, on the Preparing Hard Disk page select a partitioning method, and
then click Next.
If you select 1.IDE Disk, the system will automatically partition the disk based on the size of
the disk. If you select Custom Partitioning, you can manually partition the disk as needed.
This example selects Custom Partitioning.
Figure 79 Preparing hard disk
b. From the left navigation tree, select Hard Disks > sda.
The following partitions must be added:
− swap—Switching partition to implement virtual memory. As a best practice, set its size
to one or twice of the physical memory.
− /boot/efi—System boot file partition. It must be in the efi partition or fat format. As a best
practice, set the size to 100 MB to 200 MB.
− /—Root partition to save system software and files.

H3C UniServer R4900 G3 Specifications

General

Processor	Intel Xeon Scalable processors
Processor Sockets	2
Memory Slots	24 DIMM slots
RAID Support	RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60
Form Factor	2U rack server
Storage	Up to 12 x 3.5" or 2.5" drives
Network Interface	Multiple 1G/10G Ethernet ports
PCIe Slots	Up to 7 x PCIe 3.0 slots
Power Supply	Redundant power supplies
Operating System Support	Microsoft Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, VMware ESXi
Memory	Up to 3TB DDR4