Lenovo ThinkSystem ST250 V2 - Deploy the Operating System

drive) is a partition in the drive group that is made up of contiguous data segments on the drives. Virtual drive
is presented up to the host operating system as a physical disk that can be partitioned to create OS logical
drives or volumes.
An introduction to RAID is available at the following Lenovo Press website:
https://lenovopress.com/lp0578-lenovo-raid-introduction
Detailed information about RAID management tools and resources is available at the following Lenovo Press
website:
https://lenovopress.com/lp0579-lenovo-raid-management-tools-and-resources
Deploy the operating system
Several options are available to deploy an operating system on the server.
Available operating systems
• Microsoft Windows Server 2019, 2022
• VMware ESXi 7.0 U3 or later versions
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 or later versions
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 or later versions
Complete list of available operating systems:
https://lenovopress.com/osig.
Tool-based deployment
• Multi-server
Available tools:
– Lenovo XClarity Administrator
http://sysmgt.lenovofiles.com/help/topic/com.lenovo.lxca.doc/compute_node_image_deployment.html
– Lenovo XClarity Essentials OneCLI
http://sysmgt.lenovofiles.com/help/topic/toolsctr_cli_lenovo/onecli_r_uxspi_proxy_tool.html
– Lenovo XClarity Integrator deployment pack for SCCM (for Windows operating system only)
https://sysmgt.lenovofiles.com/help/topic/com.lenovo.lxci_deploypack_sccm.doc/dpsccm_c_endtoend_
deploy_scenario.html
• Single-server
Available tools:
– Lenovo XClarity Provisioning Manager
“OS Installation” section in the LXPM documentation compatible with your server at
https://
sysmgt.lenovofiles.com/help/topic/lxpm_frontend/lxpm_product_page.html
– Lenovo XClarity Essentials OneCLI
http://sysmgt.lenovofiles.com/help/topic/toolsctr_cli_lenovo/onecli_r_uxspi_proxy_tool.html
– Lenovo XClarity Integrator deployment pack for SCCM (for Windows operating system only)
https://sysmgt.lenovofiles.com/help/topic/com.lenovo.lxci_deploypack_sccm.doc/dpsccm_c_endtoend_
deploy_scenario.html
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