Lenovo System x3250 M5 - Serverguide Features; Setup and Configuration Overview

TheServerGuideSetupandInstallationCDprovidessoftwaresetuptoolsandinstallationtoolsthatare
designedforyourserver.TheServerGuideprogramdetectstheservermodelandoptionalhardwaredevices
thatareinstalledandusesthatinformationduringsetuptoconfigurethehardware.TheServerGuide
simplifiestheoperating-systeminstallationsbyprovidingupdateddevicedriversand,insomecases,
installingthemautomatically.
Notes:WhenusingtheServerGuidetodeployWindows2008series,theServerGuidemayrunintoablue
screenonyoursystemwithorwithoutServeRAIDC100enabled.Toavoidthisproblem,completethe
followingsteps:
1.SetUEFIsettings.
2.View"DeviceandI/OPorts"setting.
3.IftheServeRAIDC100isenabled,changethe"onboardSATAportsas"intoRAIDorIDE.
4.IftheServeRAIDC100isnotenabled,changethe"onboardSATAportsas"intoIDE.
5.Aftersavingthesettings,thesystemwillreturntonormalwhenrebootingfromtheServerGuide.
YoucandownloadafreeimageoftheServerGuideSetupandInstallationCDfrom
http://www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/docdisplay?lndocid=SERV-GUIDE.
InadditiontotheServerGuideSetupandInstallationCD,youmusthaveyouroperating-systemCDto
installtheoperatingsystem.
ServerGuidefeatures
ThisinformationprovidesanoverviewoftheServerGuidefeatures.
FeaturesandfunctionscanvaryslightlywithdifferentversionsoftheServerGuideprogram.Tolearnmore
abouttheversionthatyouhave,starttheServerGuideSetupandInstallationCDandviewtheonline
overview.Notallfeaturesaresupportedonallservermodels.
TheServerGuideprogramhasthefollowingfeatures:
•Aneasy-to-useinterface
•Diskette-freesetup,andconfigurationprogramsthatarebasedondetectedhardware
•Devicedriversthatareprovidedfortheservermodelanddetectedhardware
•Operating-systempartitionsizeandfile-systemtypethatareselectableduringsetup
TheServerGuideprogramperformsthefollowingtasks:
•Setssystemdateandtime
•Detectsinstalledhardwareoptionsandprovidesupdateddevicedriversformostadaptersanddevices
•Providesdiskette-freeinstallationforsupportedWindowsoperatingsystems
•Includesanonlinereadmefilewithlinkstotipsforyourhardwareandoperating-systeminstallation
Setupandconfigurationoverview
UsethisinformationfortheServerGuidesetupandconfiguration.
WhenyouusetheServerGuideSetupandInstallationCD,youdonotneedsetupdiskettes.Youcanusethe
CDtoconfigureanysupportedLenovoservermodel.Thesetupprogramprovidesalistoftasksthatare
requiredtosetupyourservermodel.OnaserverwithaServeRAIDadapterorSAS/SATAcontrollerwith
RAIDcapabilities,youcanruntheSAS/SATARAIDconfigurationprogramtocreatelogicaldrives.
Note:FeaturesandfunctionscanvaryslightlywithdifferentversionsoftheServerGuideprogram.
Typicaloperating-systeminstallation
ThissectiondetailstheServerGuidetypicaloperating-systeminstallation.
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