Oracle X7-2 Installation Guide

Configuring Storage Drives for Operating
System Installation
This section describes how to prepare a server boot disk for operating system installation using
the BIOS Setup Utility RAID configuration tools. For more information on configuring BIOS
settings, refer to the BIOS information in the server Service Manual.
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“Storage Drive Configuration” on page 97
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“RAID Configuration Requirements” on page 98
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“Configuring RAID” on page 99
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“Installing an Operating System” on page 117
Related Information
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“Installation Procedure Overview” on page 11
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Host Bus Adapter (HBA) Documentation Collection at: http://www.oracle.com/
technetwork/documentation/oracle-storage-networking-190061.html
Storage Drive Configuration
Your server may have been shipped with an internal host bus adapter (HBA) card installed. To
learn more about the internal HBA card, see the Oracle Storage 12 Gb SAS PCIe RAID HBA,
internal: 16 port and 2 GB memory Internal Installation Guide at http://docs.oracle.com/
cd/E52363_01/index.html.
Use the following guidelines to determine how to configure storage drives.
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If your server comes with a RAID internal HBA card installed and any amount of HDDs
or SDDs, then the system is shipped with each HDD or SSD as part of its own RAID 0
configuration.
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Oracle X7-2 Specifications

General

Processor	Intel Xeon Scalable processors
Number of Processors	1 or 2
Memory	Up to 1.5 TB DDR4
Memory Slots	24 DIMM slots
Form Factor	2U Rackmount
Storage Bays	8 x 2.5-inch
CPU Socket	Socket P (LGA 3647)
Power Supply	Redundant hot-swappable power supplies