Lenovo x3650 M5 - Using the Serverguide Setup and Installation CD

–UploadingadisketteimagetotheIMMmemoryandmappingittotheserverasavirtualdrive
Theblue-screencapturefeaturecapturesthevideodisplaycontentsbeforetheIMMrestartsthe
serverwhentheIMMdetectsanoperating-systemhangcondition.Asystemadministratorcanuse
theblue-screencapturefeaturetoassistindeterminingthecauseofthehangcondition.Formore
information,see“Usingtheremotepresenceandblue-screencapturefeatures”onpage54
.
•Ethernetcontrollerconfiguration
ForinformationaboutconfiguringtheEthernetcontroller,see“ConfiguringtheEthernetcontroller”on
page57.
•FeaturesonDemandsoftwareEthernetsoftware
TheserverprovidesFeaturesonDemandsoftwareEthernetsupport.YoucanpurchaseaFeatureson
DemandsoftwareupgradekeyforFibreChanneloverEthernet(FCoE)andiSCSIstorageprotocols.For
moreinformation,see“EnablingFeaturesonDemandEthernetsoftware”onpage57.
•FeaturesonDemandsoftwareRAIDsoftware
TheserverprovidesFeaturesonDemandsoftwareRAIDsupport.YoucanpurchaseaFeatureson
DemandsoftwareupgradekeyforRAID.Formoreinformation,see“EnablingFeaturesonDemand
RAIDsoftware”onpage57.
•AdvancedSettingsUtility(ASU)program
UsethisprogramasanalternativetotheSetuputilityformodifyingUEFIsettingsandIMMsettings.Use
theASUprogramonlineoroutofbandtomodifyUEFIsettingsfromthecommandlinewithoutthe
needtorestarttheservertoruntheSetuputility.Formoreinformationaboutusingthisprogram,see
“AdvancedSettingsUtilityprogram”onpage58.
•ConfiguringRAIDarrays
ForinformationaboutconfiguringRAIDarrays,see“ConfiguringRAIDarrays”onpage58
.
UsingtheServerGuideSetupandInstallationCD
UsethisinformationasanoverviewforusingtheServerGuideSetupandInstallationCD.
TheServerGuideSetupandInstallationCDprovidessoftwaresetuptoolsandinstallationtoolsthatare
designedforyourserver.TheServerGuideprogramdetectstheservermodelandoptionalhardwaredevices
thatareinstalledandusesthatinformationduringsetuptoconfigurethehardware.TheServerGuide
simplifiestheoperating-systeminstallationsbyprovidingupdateddevicedriversand,insomecases,
installingthemautomatically.
YoucandownloadafreeimageoftheServerGuideSetupandInstallationCDfrom
http://www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/docdisplay?lndocid=SERV-GUIDE.
InadditiontotheServerGuideSetupandInstallationCD,youmusthaveyouroperating-systemCDto
installtheoperatingsystem.
ServerGuidefeatures
ThisinformationprovidesanoverviewoftheServerGuidefeatures.
FeaturesandfunctionscanvaryslightlywithdifferentversionsoftheServerGuideprogram.Tolearnmore
abouttheversionthatyouhave,starttheServerGuideSetupandInstallationCDandviewtheonline
overview.Notallfeaturesaresupportedonallservermodels.
TheServerGuideprogramperformsthefollowingfeatures:
•Aneasy-to-useinterface
•Diskette-freesetup,andconfigurationprogramsthatarebasedondetectedhardware
•Devicedriversthatareprovidedfortheservermodelanddetectedhardware
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