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CHAPTER 4 Installation of Operating System and bundled software
4.1 Installation procedure of Operating System and bundled software
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Installation of Operating System CHAPTER 4
and bundled software
The installation method of operating system and the bundled software is explained here.
4.1 Installation procedure of Operating System and bundled
software
When Boot Watchdog is enabled, during installation operation, partition reset may occur unpredictably by Boot Watchdog
function. Therefore, Boot Watchdog is cancelled before operating system is installed. For the cancellation method see
"9.4.1 Automatic reboot condition setting of partition" of PRIMEQUEST 2000 series Administration Manual (C122-E175EN).
SVIM(ServerView Installation Manager) is used to install operating system in the partition of PRIMEQUEST 2000 series.
SVIM is a setup support tool to execute the below mentioned operations.
- Installation of operating system
- Installation of driver necessary for the operating system
- Installation of the bundled software
For the software which is automatically installed by using SVIM see "3.3 Bundled software" of PRIMEQUEST 2000 series
Product Description (C122-B025EN).
For SVIM outline see ServerView Suite ServerView Installation Manager.
Moreover, there are points to be noted for SVIM. See the list of points to be noted for the PRIMEQUEST 2000 series
ServerViewSuite .
Notes
Confirm the installation of SAN boot environment, installation of VMware as follows.
- Configuration of SAN boot environment
When SAN boot environment is to be installed, the SAN boot environment is configured before the operating system
is installed.
For the construction of SAN boot environment, see PRIMEQUEST 2000sSeries SAN Boot Environment
Configuration Manual (C122-E155) .
- When the installation VMware of operating system and the bundled software is to be installed then the procedure is
different. For the installation procedure of VMware, see “Appendix D Notes on VMware installation”.
All the inserted windows are examples of display and the contents displayed by the system configuration, etc. are different.
4.2 Procedure to install Windows in SAN/iSCSI storage device
Here, the procedure to install Windows in SAN storage device is explained. Start the installation after confirming the MMB
configuration setting and successful login to the MMB. For the settings of SAN storage device, FC-card, Converged
Network Adapter and NIC for iSCSI Boot, see PRIMEQUEST 1000/2000 Series SAN Boot Environment Configuration
Manual (C122-E155) .
4.2.1 Presetting
The following settings are done if necessary.
1. LUN of SAN storage device is set.
2. [PCI ROM Priority] of BIOS is set.
- For the UEFI Install
- Set [Device Manager]-[PCI Subsystem Configuration]-[PCI ROM Priority] of BIOS menu to ”EFI Compatible