Lenovo System x3550 M5 - Using the Setup Utility

•Checksthemicrocode(firmware)levelsofaServeRAIDadapteranddetermineswhetheralaterlevelis
availablefromtheCD
•Detectsinstalledhardwareoptionsandprovidesupdateddevicedriversformostadaptersanddevices
•Providesdiskette-freeinstallationforsupportedWindowsoperatingsystems
•Includesanonlinereadmefilewithlinkstotipsforyourhardwareandoperating-systeminstallation
Setupandconfigurationoverview
WhenyouusetheServerGuideSetupandInstallationCD,youdonotneedsetupdiskettes.Youcanusethe
CDtoconfigureanysupportedLenovoservermodel.Thesetupprogramprovidesalistoftasksthatare
requiredtosetupyourservermodel.OnaserverwithaServeRAIDadapterorSAS/SATAcontrollerwith
RAIDcapabilities,youcanruntheSAS/SATARAIDconfigurationprogramtocreatelogicaldrives.
Note:FeaturesandfunctionscanvaryslightlywithdifferentversionsoftheServerGuideprogram.
Typicaloperating-systeminstallation
TheServerGuideprogramcanreducethetimeittakestoinstallanoperatingsystem.Itprovidesthedevice
driversthatarerequiredforyourhardwareandfortheoperatingsystemthatyouareinstalling.Thissection
describesatypicalServerGuideoperating-systeminstallation.
Note:FeaturesandfunctionscanvaryslightlywithdifferentversionsoftheServerGuideprogram.
•Afteryouhavecompletedthesetupprocess,theoperating-systeminstallationprogramstarts.(Youwill
needyouroperating-systemCDtocompletetheinstallation.)
•TheServerGuideprogramstoresinformationabouttheservermodel,serviceprocessor,harddiskdrive
controllers,andnetworkadapters.Then,theprogramcheckstheCDfornewerdevicedrivers.This
informationisstoredandthenpassedtotheoperating-systeminstallationprogram.
•TheServerGuideprogrampresentsoperating-systempartitionoptionsthatarebasedonyour
operating-systemselectionandtheinstalledharddiskdrives.
•TheServerGuideprogrampromptsyoutoinsertyouroperating-systemCDandrestarttheserver.Atthis
point,theinstallationprogramfortheoperatingsystemtakescontroltocompletetheinstallation.
InstallingyouroperatingsystemwithoutusingServerGuide
UsethisinformationtoinstalltheoperatingsystemontheserverwithoutusingServerGuide.
IfyouhavealreadyconfiguredtheserverhardwareandyouarenotusingtheServerGuideprogramto
installyouroperatingsystem,youcandownloadoperating-systeminstallationinstructionsfortheserver
fromhttp://www.lenovo.com/support.
UsingtheSetupUtility
UsetheseinstructionstostarttheSetupUtility.
UsetheUnifiedExtensibleFirmwareInterface(UEFI)SetupUtilityprogramtoperformthefollowingtasks:
•Viewconfigurationinformation
•ViewandchangeassignmentsfordevicesandI/Oports
•Setthedateandtime
•Setandchangepasswords
•Setthestartupcharacteristicsoftheserverandtheorderofstartupdevices
•Setandchangesettingsforadvancedhardwarefeatures
•View,set,andchangesettingsforpower-managementfeatures
•Viewandclearerrorlogs
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