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64 MB of RAM
o 64 MB of free hard drive space
o 10-Mb/s network adapter
• PXE deployment server (storing boot images)
o AMD Athlon™ XP processor (700 MHz or greater recommended), AMD Athlon™ 64 processor,
or Intel® Pentium® III or higher processor (500 MHz recommended)
o 256 MB of RAM
o 10-Mb/s network adapter
o CD-ROM drive
• Windows® repository server (Windows® or Linux deployment)
o Windows® 2000 or Windows Server® 2003 OS installed
o Network connection
o CD-ROM drive
o 1.5 GB of available disk space
o TCP/IP networking and an IP address compatible with one of the following: the iLO 3 Diagnostic
Port IP address or an assigned DHCP or static IP address
o CD-ROM drive and/or diskette drive
o Any of the following Java™ Runtime Environment versions:
1.3.1_02
1.3.1_07
1.3.1_08
1.4.1 for Windows® users only
1.4.2 for Linux users only
Access the Java™ Runtime Environment versions at the HP website
(http://java.sun.com/products/archive/index.html
).
• Network server with an OS installed
Deployment methods
Three primary deployment methods are supported:
IMPORTANT: To deploy a server blade without the HP Insight Control server deployment,
create a bootable diskette or image of a bootable diskette.
• PXE deployment (on page 30)
• CD-ROM deployment (on page 31)
• Diskette image deployment (on page 32)
PXE deployment
PXE enables server blades to load an image over the network from a PXE server, and then execute it in
memory. The first NIC on the server blade is the default PXE boot NIC, but any of the other NC series