Lenovo ThinkServer RD550 Operating System Installation Guide

Installing the Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
Essentials operating system . . . . . . . . . . 60
Installing the Microsoft Windows Server 2016
operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Installing the Microsoft Windows Server 2016
Essentials operating system . . . . . . . . . . 61
Installing the Windows Server SAC . . . . . . . 62
Installing the Microsoft Windows Storage Server
2012 Standard operating system . . . . . . . . 62
Installing the Microsoft Windows Storage Server
2012 R2 Standard operating system. . . . . . . 62
Installing the Microsoft Windows Multipoint Server
2012 operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Installing the Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 operating
system with Service Pack 1 . . . . . . . . . . 63
Installing the Hyper-V Server 2012 operating
system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Installing the Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 operating
system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Installing the Hyper-V Server 2016 operating
system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Installing the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
operating system with Service Pack 3 . . . . . . 64
Installing the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
operating system with Service Pack 4 . . . . . . 67
Installing the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Installing the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12.1
operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Installing the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12.2
operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Installing the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12.3
operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Installing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5
operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Installing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6
operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Installing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7
operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Installing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8
operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Installing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9
operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Installing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10
operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Installing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 operating
system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Installing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1
operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Installing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2
operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Installing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3
operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Installing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4
operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Installing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5
operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Installing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Installing the VMware hypervisor . . . . . . . . 96
Installing the Citrix Xen Server operating system . . 97
Chapter 4. Installing drivers . . . . . . 99
Installing drivers for Windows operating systems . . 99
Installing the driver for the chipset . . . . . . 99
Installing the driver for an onboard graphics
card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Installing the driver for the Intel Ethernet
card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Installing the driver for USB 3.0
connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Installing the driver for an HBA card, a
Mezzanine card, or a CNA card . . . . . . . 101
Installing the driver for the Avago RAID
card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Installing the driver for the Avago 9300-8e
HBA card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Installing the driver for the Qlogic QLE2672 2-
port HBA card . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Installing the driver for the ThinkServer
Trusted Platform Module . . . . . . . . . 102
Installing the driver for the SATA AHCI . . . . 103
Installing the driver for the FusionIO PCIe
SSD-IOScale3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Installing the driver for the PMC 8885e . . . . 104
Installing drivers for Hyper-V operating
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Installing the driver for the chipset . . . . . . 104
Installing drivers for an onboard graphics
card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Installing the driver for the Intel Ethernet
card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Installing the driver for an HBA card . . . . . 105
Installing the driver for a CNA card. . . . . . 106
Installing drivers for the SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server operating system . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Installing the driver for the chipset . . . . . . 106
Installing the driver for an onboard graphics
card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Installing the driver for the Intel Ethernet
card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Installing the driver for an HBA card, a
Mezzanine card, or a CNA card . . . . . . . 107
Installing the driver for the Qlogic QLE2672, 2-
port HBA card . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Installing the driver for the Avago 9300-8e
HBA card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Installing the driver for a RAID card . . . . . 108
Installing the driver for the PMC 8885e . . . . 109
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Lenovo ThinkServer RD550 Specifications

General

Brand	Lenovo
Model	ThinkServer RD550
Category	Server
Language	English