Lenovo x3650 M4 BD 5466 - Serverguide Features; Setup and Configuration Overview; Installing Your Operating System Without Using Serverguide

ServerGuidefeatures
ThisinformationprovidesanoverviewoftheServerGuidefeatures.
FeaturesandfunctionscanvaryslightlywithdifferentversionsoftheServerGuideprogram.Tolearnmore
abouttheversionthatyouhave,starttheServerGuideSetupandInstallationCDandviewtheonline
overview.Notallfeaturesaresupportedonallservermodels.
TheServerGuideprogramperformsthefollowingtasks:
•Setssystemdateandtime
•DetectstheRAIDadapterorcontrollerandrunstheSAS/SATARAIDconfigurationprogram
•Checksthemicrocode(firmware)levelsofaServeRAIDadapteranddetermineswhetheralaterlevelis
availablefromtheCD
•Detectsinstalledhardwareoptionsandprovidesupdateddevicedriversformostadaptersanddevices
•Providesdiskette-freeinstallationforsupportedWindowsoperatingsystems
•Includesanonlinereadmefilewithlinkstotipsforyourhardwareandoperating-systeminstallation
Setupandconfigurationoverview
UsethisinformationfortheServerGuidesetupandconfiguration.
WhenyouusetheServerGuideSetupandInstallationCD,youdonotneedsetupdiskettes.Youcanusethe
CDtoconfigureanysupportedservermodel.Thesetupprogramprovidesalistoftasksthatarerequired
tosetupyourservermodel.OnaserverwithaServeRAIDadapterorSAS/SATAcontrollerwithRAID
capabilities,youcanruntheSAS/SATARAIDconfigurationprogramtocreatelogicaldrives.
Note:FeaturesandfunctionscanvaryslightlywithdifferentversionsoftheServerGuideprogram.
Typicaloperating-systeminstallation
ThissectiondetailstheServerGuidetypicaloperating-systeminstallation.
TheServerGuideprogramcanreducethetimeittakestoinstallanoperatingsystem.Itprovidesthedevice
driversthatarerequiredforyourhardwareandfortheoperatingsystemthatyouareinstalling.Thissection
describesatypicalServerGuideoperating-systeminstallation.
Note:FeaturesandfunctionscanvaryslightlywithdifferentversionsoftheServerGuideprogram.
1.Afteryouhavecompletedthesetupprocess,theoperating-systeminstallationprogramstarts.(You
willneedyouroperating-systemCDtocompletetheinstallation.)
2.TheServerGuideprogramstoresinformationabouttheservermodel,serviceprocessor,harddiskdrive
controllers,andnetworkadapters.Then,theprogramcheckstheCDfornewerdevicedrivers.This
informationisstoredandthenpassedtotheoperating-systeminstallationprogram.
3.TheServerGuideprogrampresentsoperating-systempartitionoptionsthatarebasedonyour
operating-systemselectionandtheinstalledharddiskdrives.
4.TheServerGuideprogrampromptsyoutoinsertyouroperating-systemCDandrestarttheserver.At
thispoint,theinstallationprogramfortheoperatingsystemtakescontroltocompletetheinstallation.
InstallingyouroperatingsystemwithoutusingServerGuide
UsethisinformationtoinstalltheoperatingsystemontheserverwithoutusingServerGuide.
IfyouhavealreadyconfiguredtheserverhardwareandyouarenotusingtheServerGuideprogramto
installyouroperatingsystem,youcandownloadoperating-systeminstallationinstructionsfortheserver
fromhttp://www.lenovo.com/support.
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