Lenovo ThinkServer RD430 - Page 92

SomeservermodelscomewithaRAIDcardtoprovideadvancedSATA/SAShardwareRAIDfunctions.You
alsocanpurchaseasupportedRAIDcardfromLenovoandinstallitintotheserver.See“RAIDcard”
onpage37
.
TheRAIDcardprovidestheWebBIOSConfigurationUtilityprogramtohelpyouconfigureRAID
independentlyoftheoperatingsystem.YoualsocaninstalltheMegaRAIDStorageManagerprogramand
theMegaCLIConfigurationUtilityprogramtohelpyoumanagetheRAIDarrayandRAIDcontrollerinan
operatingsystemenvironment.
TheinstallationpackagesfortheMegaRAIDStorageManagerprogramandtheMegaCLIConfiguration
UtilityprogramareontheThinkServerEasyStartupDVD.Afteryouentertheoperatingsystem,insertthe
ThinkServerEasyStartupDVDintotheopticaldrive.Theinstallationpackagesfortheprogramsarelocatedin
theUtilitiesandOthersfolderintherootdirectoryoftheDVD.
Note:TheThinkServerEasyStartupDVDisdesignedfordifferenttypesofserversandtheUtilitiesandOthers
foldermightcontainadditionalinstallationpackagesthatarenotrequiredtobeinstalledonyourserver.
ForinstructionsonhowtoconfigureandmanagetheadvancedSATA/SAShardwareRAID,refertothe
MegaRAIDSASSoftwareUserGuideonthedocumentationDVDthatcomeswithyourserver.This
documentalsoisavailableontheLenovoWebsiteat:
http://www.lenovo.com/ThinkServerUserGuides
ConfiguringtheEthernetcontrollers
TheEthernetcontrollersareintegratedonthesystemboard.Theyprovideaninterfaceforconnectingto
a10Mbps,100Mbps,or1000Mbpsnetworkandprovidefull-duplex(FDX)capability,whichenables
simultaneoustransmissionandreceptionofdataonthenetwork.
YoudonothavetosetanyjumpersorconfiguretheEthernetcontrollers.However,youmustinstalladevice
drivertoenabletheoperatingsystemtorecognizethecontrollers.
TheThinkServerEasyStartupprogramsimplifiestheprocessofconfiguringRAIDandinstallingsupported
operatingsystemsanddevicedriversonyourserver.See“UsingtheThinkServerEasyStartupprogram”
onpage67
.
ThedevicedriversforonboardEthernetcontrollersalsoareavailablefordownloadat:
http://www.lenovo.com/drivers
Updatingthefirmware
ThefirmwareintheserverisperiodicallyupdatedandisavailablefordownloadontheLenovoWebsite.
Gotohttp://www.lenovo.com/driversandfollowtheinstructionsontheWebpagetocheckforthelatest
leveloffirmware,suchastheBIOSupdatesanddevicedrivers.
Whenyoureplaceadeviceintheserver,youmighthavetoeitherupdatetheserverwiththelatestversionof
thefirmwarethatisstoredinmemoryonthedeviceorreflashtheBIOS,theTMMfirmware,andtheFRU/SDR.
UsingtheFirmwareUpdaterprogram
TheFirmwareUpdaterprogramenablesyoutomaintainyoursystemfirmwareup-to-dateandhelpsyou
avoidunnecessaryoutages.
ToupdateyoursystemfirmwareusingtheFirmwareUpdaterprogram,dothefollowing:
78ThinkServerRD430HardwareMaintenanceManual