ThinkServerEasyStartupisatooldesignedtofacilitatetheconfigurationandinstallationoftheoperating
systemsontheLenovoServers.ItprovidesaGraphicalUserInterfacethatprovidesyouastepbystep
processtoStartuptheirsystem.
Thistoolallowsyoutochoosethelanguage,keyboardlayouttheywanttouseduringtheconfiguration
process.Itdetectstheservermodelanddisplaysittoyoubeforetheconfigurationstarts.Itgivesyouan
optiontospecifythesizeandtypeofthepartitiontheywanttocreateortousetheexistingpartitions.Itthen
liststheoperatingsystemssupportedonthedetectedservermodelandgivesyoutheoptiontopickthe
operatingsystemtheywanttoinstallontheserver.
ThinkServerEasyStartupinstallsonnativehardwareofthesystem.ThebootableDVDdetectsforthe
supportedLenovoServersandwillonlyconfigureandinstallonaLenovosupportedserver.
Youcanconfigurethefollowingsettingsbeforetheinstallationoftheoperatingsystemsbegins:
•ServerDate&Time
•FullName&ComputerName
•Administrator/rootPassword/root
IfitisaWindowsOS,itcanalsosupportthefollowingsettings:
•Organization
•ProductID
•Workgroup&Domain
•ConfigurethenetworkAdapters
•TimeZone
Itdetectstheinstalledhardwareonthesystemandinstallsthedevicedriversbasedonthehardware
detected.
EasyStartupfeatures
ThisinformationprovidesanoverviewoftheEasyStartupfeatures.
TheEasyStartupprogramhasthefollowingfeatures:
•Provideformanualserverconfiguration,installation,andoperations
•Provideforautomatedserverconfiguration,installationandoperations
•Installdevicedriversbasedonthehardwarethatisdetectedduringinitialconfiguration
•MinimizerestartsduringhardwareconfigurationandnativeOSinstallation
•Provideaneasytousegraphicaluserinterface
•Providehelptexttoguideusageandinstallation
•Harddiskconfiguration
•Validateconfigurationandprovideconfigurationself-documentation
•Supportcloningofconfigurationtosupportcreationofidenticalservers
•Defaulttoautomatedinstallationassistance
•CreateandFormattheinstallpartitionontheharddrives
•SupportOSInstallonpre-existingdrivepartitions
•Manual&CloningRAIDConfiguration
•SupportOSInstallwithEasyStartupDVDviaRemoteManagementModule
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