5. Click Connect. The connected drive icon and LED changes states to reflect the current status
of the virtual CD/DVD.
Figure 8-14 Virtual Media Dialog Box (after connection)
After you are connected, virtual devices are available to the host server until you close the vMedia
applet or sign out from a web session. When you are finished using the virtual CD/DVD,
disconnect the device from the host server or close the applet.
NOTE: The vMedia applet must remain open when using a vMedia device.
Virtual Media CD/DVD Operating System
You can view the list of supported operating systems on the HP website at http://www.hp.com/
go/integrityilo.
vMedia CD/DVD operating systems information is listed as follows:
• Currently, EFI console only supports El Torito bootable CD format media.
• Windows Server 2003:
The virtual CD/DVD displays automatically after Windows has recognized the mounting
of the USB device. Use it as you would a locally attached CD/DVD device.
• Linux
On servers with a locally attached IDE CD/DVD, the virtual CD/DVD device is accessible
at /dev/cdrom1. However, on servers without a locally attached CD/DVD (such as the HP
Integrity server blades) the virtual CD/DVD is the first CD/DVD accessible at/dev/cdrom.
The virtual CD/DVD can be mounted as a normal CD/DVD device using: mount
/mnt/cdrom1.
• HP-UX 11.23
To recognize the hardware path and special files, run the ioscan -kfnC disk command.
To mount the virtual CD/DVD/image file on a directory, use the # mount <special
files path> /<dir-name> command.
• OpenVMS
Creating the iLO 2 Disk Image Files
The iLO 2 vMedia feature enables you to create CD and DVD image files within the same applet.
The image files created are ISO-9660 file system images and El Torito bootable CD images. The
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