Name: Lenovo ThinkServer RS140
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Note:SomeinformationinthesechaptersmightbeintendedfortheadvancedSATA/SAShardwareRAID

conﬁgurationsandmightnotapplytotheonboardSATAsoftwareconﬁgurations.

•“MegaRAIDStorageManagerOverviewandInstallation”

•“MegaRAIDStorageManagerWindowandMenus”

•“MonitoringSystemEventsandStorageDevices”

•“MaintainingandManagingStorageConﬁgurations”

TheMegaRAIDSASSoftwareUserGuidealsoisavailableontheLenovoWebsiteat:

http://www.lenovo.com/UserManuals

ConﬁguringtheEthernetcontrollers

TheEthernetcontrollersareintegratedonthesystemboard.Theyprovideaninterfaceforconnectingto

a10Mbps,100Mbps,or1000Mbpsnetworkandprovidefull-duplex(FDX)capability,whichenables

simultaneoustransmissionandreceptionofdataonthenetwork.

YoudonothavetosetanyjumpersorconﬁguretheEthernetcontrollers.However,youmustinstalladevice

drivertoenabletheoperatingsystemtorecognizethecontrollers.

TheThinkServerEasyStartupprogramsimpliﬁestheprocessofconﬁguringRAIDandinstallingsupported

operatingsystemsanddevicedriversonyourserver.See“UsingtheThinkServerEasyStartupprogram”

onpage44

ThedevicedriversforonboardEthernetcontrollersarealsoavailablefordownloadat:

http://www.lenovo.com/drivers

Updatingtheﬁrmware

TheﬁrmwareintheserverisperiodicallyupdatedandisavailablefordownloadontheLenovoWebsite.

Gotohttp://www.lenovo.com/driversandfollowtheinstructionsontheWebpagetocheckforthelatest

levelofﬁrmware,suchastheBIOSupdatesanddevicedrivers.

Whenyoureplaceadeviceintheserver,youmighthavetoeitherupdatetheserverwiththelatestversionof

theﬁrmwarethatisstoredinmemoryonthedeviceorreﬂashtheBIOSandtheFRU/SDR.

UsingtheFirmwareUpdaterprogram

TheFirmwareUpdaterprogramenablesyoutomaintainyoursystemﬁrmwareup-to-dateandhelpsyou

avoidunnecessaryoutages.

ToupdateyoursystemﬁrmwareusingtheFirmwareUpdaterprogram,dothefollowing:

Note:Beforedistributingtheﬁrmwareupdatestoaserver,ensurethatyourservercanrestartsuccessfully

withoutencounteringhardwareproblems.

1.Gotohttp://www.lenovo.com/driversandfollowtheinstructionsontheWebpagetolocatethe

FirmwareUpdaterprogram.

2.DownloadtheISOimagefortheFirmwareUpdaterprogramandtheTXTﬁlethatcontainsthe

installationinstructions.

3.UseanyCDorDVDburningsoftwaretocreateabootablediscwiththeISOimage.

4.PrinttheTXTﬁleandfollowtheinstructionstousetheFirmwareUpdaterprogramtoupdateyour

systemﬁrmware.

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