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processofinstallingtheoperatingsystemandassociateddevicedrivers.Theprogramispartoftheserver
firmware.Thehelpsystemfortheprogramcanbeaccesseddirectlyfromtheprograminterface.
DeploymentManagerhasthefollowingfeatures:
•Easy-to-use,language-selectableinterface
•Integratedhelpsystem
•Automatichardwaredetection
•Selectablepartitionsizeandfilesystemtype
•Abilitytoinstalltheoperatingsystemanddevicedriversinanunattendedmodetosavetime
•AbilitytocreateareusableresponsefilethatcanbeusedwithsimilarlyconfiguredLenovoserversto
makefutureinstallationsevenfaster
•ContainsRAIDconfigurationutility
•Providesdevicedriversbasedontheservermodelanddetecteddevices
•SupportsBIOSsettingsconfiguration
•Supportsfirmwareandapplicationsupdate
TouseDeploymentManager,dothefollowing:
1.Launchtheprogramthroughoneofthefollowingmethods:
•Turnontheserver.PressF10assoonasyouseethelogoscreen.Then,waitforseveralseconds.
DeploymentManageropens.
•StarttheSetupUtilityprogram.SelectBootManager➙LaunchTDM.DeploymentManageropens.
2.Readandacceptthelicenseagreement.
3.Selectthelanguageinwhichyouwanttoviewtheprogram.Then,followtheinstructionsonthe
screentousetheprogram.
BeforeinstallingaWindowsoraLinuxoperatingsystemusingDeploymentManager,itisrecommended
thatyoudothefollowing:
1.Downloadthelatestdevicedriverbundlefileforyourserver.Tofindanddownloadthebundlefile,goto
http://www.lenovo.com/driversandfollowtheinstructionsontheWebpage.
2.LaunchDeploymentManagerandclickPlatformUpdateontheleftpane.
3.SelectApplicationandthenclickNext.
4.ClickBrowsetoselectthecorrespondingbundlefileandthenclickOK.Theversioninformationis
displayed.
5.ClickFlashtoapplythebundlefileandupdatethecurrentdevicedrivers.
Note:IfyouwanttoinstallaVMwarehypervisorusingDeploymentManager,thedevicedriverbundle
fileisnotneeded.
TodownloadthelatestDeploymentManager,gotohttp://www.lenovo.com/driversandfollowthe
instructionsontheWebpage.
LenovoThinkServerDiagnostics
TheLenovoThinkServerDiagnosticsprogramenablesyoutodiagnoseserverproblemsoffline,perform
somediagnostictests,andcollectsysteminformation.Examplesofthesysteminformationincludebasic
operating-systeminformation,hardwareinformation,SEL,RAIDlog,andsoon.Dependingonthemodel,
yourservermightcomewithoneofthefollowingdiagnosticprogrameditions:
•LenovoThinkServerDiagnosticsEmbeddedEdition
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