NEC Express 5800 Series Installation Guide

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Express5800/R320d-E4, R320d-M4 Installation Guide (VMware 5.5)
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Contents
Documents for This Product ............................................................................................................................ 2
Contents ........................................................................................................................................................ 3
Notations Used in This Document ................................................................................................................... 5
Notations used in the text ....................................................................................................................... 5
Optical disk drives .................................................................................................................................. 5
Hard disk drives ..................................................................................................................................... 5
Removable media .................................................................................................................................. 5
POST ................................................................................................................................................... 5
BMC ................................................................................................................................................... 5
Trademarks .................................................................................................................................................... 6
Regulatory Notices ......................................................................................................................................... 7
Warnings and Additions to This Document...................................................................................................... 11
Latest editions ....................................................................................................................................... 11
Chapter 1 Installing OS ...............................................................................................................................12
1. Setup Procedure .......................................................................................................................................13
1.1 Requirements for Setup ..................................................................................................................14
1.2 Preparations for Setup ....................................................................................................................15
1.2.1 Prepare NEC Express5800/ft series ....................................................................................15
1.2.2 Prepare external storage device ..........................................................................................17
1.3 Enabling internal disk ......................................................................................................................18
1.4 Enabling FC card ............................................................................................................................21
1.5 Disabling OS Boot Monitoring Function ...........................................................................................25
1.6 Setting HBA configuration by using QLogic ......................................................................................27
1.7 Installing VMware ESXi ...................................................................................................................35
1.7.1 Installing VMware ESXi.......................................................................................................35
1.7.2 Configuring ESXi ................................................................................................................38
1.7.3 Configuring the Firewall for the ESXi Host from the vSphere Client ......................................41
1.8 Installing ftSys Management Appliance............................................................................................42
1.8.1 Checking the Installation Destination Disk ...........................................................................42
1.8.2 Installing ftSys Management Appliance ...............................................................................44
1.9 Installing ft control software .............................................................................................................49
1.10 Applying Patch Program ...............................................................................................................53
1.11 Setup after installing ft control software .........................................................................................54
1.11.1 Log Server........................................................................................................................54
1.11.2 Installing Additional Packages ...........................................................................................56
1.11.3 Checking status of ft server ...............................................................................................57
1.12 Connecting and Configuring Options .............................................................................................58
1.13 Enabling OS Boot Monitoring Function ..........................................................................................59
1.14 Backing up System Information ....................................................................................................60
1.14.1 BIOS SETUP ....................................................................................................................60
1.14.2 System information ...........................................................................................................61
1.14.3 BMC Configuration ...........................................................................................................61
1.15 Setup Procedures upon Installing Guest OS..................................................................................62

NEC Express 5800 Series Specifications

General

Brand	NEC
Model	Express 5800 Series
Category	Server
Language	English