Chapter 2 ’Installation and Startup’ — Software Only Delivery
58 Electra VS
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Version 05.10
User Manual - Rev. A
The System Private LAN shall be reserved to the nodes of one Electra
VS. Do not connect any additional equipment on the network. If you
install two Electra VS, each one should have its own System Private
LAN.
If the Electra VS includes at least one blade center and others hardware
platforms, to ensure a proper multicast management in the System
Private LAN, it must contain an IGMP Querier.
Creating the Bootable USB Flash drive
In order to install the version on the hardware platform you shall create
a bootable USB Flash drive that will launch automatically the installation
of the Electra VS at boot.
1.
Download an utility that lets you write an image to USB Flash Drive
(for example imageUSB):
http://www.osforensics.com/tools/write-usb-images.html
2.
Plug the USB Flash drive in the PC.
3.
Copy the installation image from the DVD-ROM "Software-only
Delivery" directory to the PC.
4.
Start the utility.
5.
Write the image on the USB Flash drive.
Preparing the Hardware Platform
1.
Select the node that will be one of the two masters of the Electra VS.
2.
If you have two disks
Install hardware RAID 1 if you want to use a hardware RAID.
Otherwise install two RAID 0 if you want to use the software RAID.
Note: It is possible to install Electra VS on a platform with only one
disk but it is not recommended. In this case install only one disk with
RAID 0.
3.
Check the platform boot parameters (generally, click F11 at reboot).
Check that the platform is ready to boot to USB Flash drive.
Installing the Version on the First Node (Master Node)
Install the version using the bootable USB Flash Drive
1.
Power down the server
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