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Contents
Introduction. ....................................................................... 6
Intelligent Provisioning. ...........................................................................................................................................
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F10/Remote console features. ...........................................................................................................................
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Always On Intelligent Provisioning (AoIP). ........................................................................................................
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Intelligent Provisioning operation. ......................................................................................................................
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Navigating Intelligent Provisioning .....................................................................................................................
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Software installed with Intelligent Provisioning. ..............................................................................................................
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Accessing Intelligent Provisioning .............................................................
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Accessing Intelligent Provisioning from the iLO web interface .....................................................................................
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Accessing Intelligent Provisioning using an iLO remote console session. ..................................................................
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F10 mode options. ................................................................................
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Selecting F10 mode to use. ..................................................................................................................................................
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Initial configuration in Intelligent Provisioning. ................................................................................................................
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Using the First Time Setup wizard. ....................................................................................................................
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Entering First Time Wizard settings. .....................................................................................................
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Re-enabling Intelligent Provisioning. ................................................................................................................
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Reinstalling Intelligent Provisioning..................................................................................................................
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Reinstalling from an ISO image. .........................................................................................................
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Reinstalling from an RPM package (Linux only). ..............................................................................
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Configuring the hardware and installing an operating system ........................
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Configuring the hardware and installing an OS with Intelligent Provisioning. ............................................................
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Server support and special characters. ...........................................................................................................
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Source media types and installation methods supported for each OS. ...........................................................
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Select Install Source. .........................................................................................................................................
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Configure Installation Settings. .........................................................................................................................
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Configure OS Setting. ...................................................................................................................................
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Configure Controller .............................................................................................................................
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Select OS drive and set partition..................................................................................................................
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Configure Firmware Update. ...............................................................................................................
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Reviewing your settings. ...................................................................................................................................
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Checking installation parameters. ....................................................................................................................
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About RAID arrays. .........................................................................................................................................................
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RAID 0
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RAID 1 and RAID 1+0 (RAID 10). .......................................................................................................................
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RAID 5.
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RAID 50. .................................................................................................................................................................................
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RAID 6.
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RAID 60. .................................................................................................................................................................................
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Dedicated spare.
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Failure spare activation. ..............................................................................................................................................
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