Lenovo ThinkServer RD330 - Installation Guide Manual

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ThinkServerRD330and

RD430OperatingSystem

InstallationGuide

ThisguideprovidesinstructionsonhowtoinstallanoperatingsystemonthefollowingLenovo

servers:

•ThinkServer

RD330

•ThinkServerRD430

Thisguidecontainsthefollowinginformation:

•“Beforeinstallinganoperatingsystem”onpage1

•“InstallingaMicrosoftWindowsServer2008operatingsystem”onpage1

•“InstallingaMicrosoftWindowsServer2008R2operatingsystem”onpage3

•“InstallingaMicrosoftWindowsSmallBusinessServer2011operatingsystem”onpage4

•“InstallingdevicedriversforWindowsoperatingsystems”onpage9

•“InstallingaMicrosoftHyper-VServer2008operatingsystemanddevicedrivers”onpage9

•“InstallingaLinuxoperatingsystem”onpage11

•“InstallingdevicedriversforLinuxoperatingsystems”onpage17

•“InstallingVMwareESXi5.0”onpage17

Beforeinstallinganoperatingsystem

Ensurethatyouhavepreparedthefollowingitemsbeforeinstallinganoperatingsystem:

•Prepareanoperatingsysteminstallationdiscwithlicense.

•PrinttherelatedinstructionsinthisguideorensurethatyoucanviewthePDFversiononanothercomputer.

•Ensurethatyourserverhassupportedharddiskdrivesinstalled.

•CongureRAIDforyourserverbeforeinstallinganoperatingsystem.Forinformationaboutconguring

RAID,refertotheUserGuideonthedocumentationDVDthatcomeswithyourserver.Youalwayscan

obtainallthemostup-to-datedocumentationforyourserverfromtheLenovoWebsiteat:

http://www.lenovo.com/ThinkServerUserGuides

•PrepareaUniversalSerialBus(USB)storagedevicethatcontainstherequireddevicedriversfor

yourservermodel.Todownloaddevicedrivers,gotohttp://www.lenovo.com/driversandfollowthe

instructionsontheWebpage.

•Settheopticaldrivethatyouwanttouseastherststartupdevice.

Notes:

•ForonboardSASsoftwareRAID,itisnotsupportedtoinstallanoperatingsysteminUniedExtensible

FirmwareInterface(UEFI)mode.DonotstarttheserverfromtheDVD-ROMdevicelistedin“UEFI:

DVD-ROMname”ontheBootOptionsmenutoinstallanoperatingsystem.

•ForonboardSASsoftwareRAID,itisnotsupportedtoinstallanoperatingsystemonapartitiongreater

than2.2TB.

InstallingaMicrosoftWindowsServer2008operatingsystem

Thistopicprovidesinstructionsoninstallingthefollowingoperatingsystems:

•Microsoft

Windows

Server2008StandardEdition(x86andx64)

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