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C Setting Up and Performing Network Booting.........................................................227
C.1 About the OpenVMS InfoServer Utility.......................................................................................227
C.2 Setting Up Your System as an InfoServer Client..........................................................................229
C.2.1 Determining the Local Network I/O Card to Be Used ........................................................229
C.2.2 Adding the Network Boot Option to the EFI Boot Manager................................................230
C.2.3 Verifying the Network I/O Device Is Bootable by EFI..........................................................232
C.3 Setting Up the InfoServer Server..................................................................................................232
C.4 Setting Up the BOOTP Boot Server and TFTP Server (OpenVMS Integrity servers Only).........235
C.5 Booting OpenVMS Integrity servers from the InfoServer............................................................238
C.6 Troubleshooting InfoServer Boot Problems..................................................................................243
D Using HP SIM and vMedia for Provisioning OpenVMS.......................................245
D.1 HP SIM Provisioning of OpenVMS..............................................................................................245
D.1.1 About HP SIM and Provisioning..........................................................................................245
D.1.2 Prerequisites for HP SIM Provisioning................................................................................246
D.1.3 Setting Up InfoServer Support.............................................................................................247
D.1.4 Setting Up vMedia................................................................................................................250
D.1.5 Setting Up HP SIM and the Windows Server to Provision OpenVMS................................256
D.1.5.1 Installing or Upgrading the OpenVMS Provisioning Plug-in for HP SIM..................256
D.1.5.2 Discovering and Identifying Your New Provisioning Client Management Processors
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D.1.5.2.1 Manually Discovering an MP with HP SIM.........................................................257
D.1.6 Provisioning OpenVMS........................................................................................................259
D.1.6.1 Provisioning OpenVMS Through the InfoServer.........................................................261
D.1.6.2 Provisioning OpenVMS Through vMedia...................................................................268
D.1.6.3 Installing Licenses on OpenVMS Servers Through Provisioning................................272
D.1.6.4 Configuring OpenVMS TCP/IP Through Provisioning...............................................275
D.1.6.4.1 Prerequisites for Configuring TCP/IP..................................................................275
D.1.6.4.2 Configuring TCP/IP..............................................................................................275
D.2 Using vMedia Independently of HP SIM.....................................................................................279
D.2.1 Prerequisites for Using vMedia to Install or Upgrade OpenVMS.......................................280
D.2.2 Using vMedia to Install or Upgrade OpenVMS...................................................................281
E Setting Up and Booting Fibre Channel Storage Devices.......................................289
E.1 Booting on a Fibre Channel Storage Device on OpenVMS Alpha Systems.................................289
E.1.1 Using the AlphaServer Console for Configuring Fibre Channel (Alpha Only)...................289
E.1.1.1 Viewing the FC Configuration from the Console.........................................................289
E.1.1.2 Setting Up FC Disks for Booting and Dumping...........................................................292
E.2 Booting on a Fibre Channel Storage Device on OpenVMS Integrity server Systems...................295
E.2.1 Checking the Firmware Version............................................................................................295
E.2.2 Obtaining the IPF Offline Diagnostics and Utilities.............................................................296
E.2.3 Configuring and Booting FC Boot Device............................................................................297
E.2.4 Configuring Additional Nodes to Boot into a Cluster Using a Shared Disk........................300
F Backing Up and Restoring the System Disk.............................................................301
F.1 Reasons for Backing Up the System Disk......................................................................................301
F.2 Suggested Procedures....................................................................................................................301
F.3 OpenVMS Cluster Caution............................................................................................................301
F.4 Backing Up the System Disk.........................................................................................................302
F.4.1 Getting Started.......................................................................................................................302
F.4.2 Mounting Devices..................................................................................................................302
F.4.3 Performing the System Disk Backup.....................................................................................302
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