Lenovo ThinkSystem ST250 - Operating System Deployment

Table 13. Upgrade scenarios
Scenarios
Before upgrade After upgrade RAID adapter
Scenario 1
Four 3.5 hot-swap drives
(software RAID)
Four 3.5 hot-swap drives
(hardware RAID)
One RAID adapter - 8i
Scenario 2 Eight 3.5 hot-swap drives
(software RAID)
Eight 3.5 hot-swap drives
(hardware RAID)
One RAID adapter - 8i
Scenario 3
Eight 2.5 hot-swap drives
(software RAID)
Eight 3.5 hot-swap drives
(hardware RAID)
One RAID adapter - 8i
• Software RAID to Hardware RAID (second disk drive cage and backplane kit is installed)
Table 14. Upgrade scenarios
Scenarios
Before upgrade After upgrade
RAID adapter
Scenario 1
Four 3.5 hot-swap drives
(software RAID)
Eight 3.5 hot-swap drives
(hardware RAID)
One RAID adapter - 8i
Scenario 2
Four 3.5 hot-swap drives
(software RAID)
Four 3.5 hot-swap drives
plus Eight 2.5 hot-swap
drives (hardware RAID)
One RAID adapter - 16i or
Two RAID adapters - 8i
Scenario 3
Eight 2.5 hot-swap drives
(software RAID)
Sixteen 2.5 hot-swap drives
(hardware RAID)
One RAID adapter - 16i or
Two RAID adapters - 8i
For information on the cable routing, see “Internal cable routing” on page 30.
Deploy the operating system
Several options are available to deploy an operating system on the server.
Available operating systems
• Microsoft Windows Server
• VMware ESXi
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
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
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