Hitachi HA800 Series User Manual

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Contents
Introduction .................................................................................... 7
Intelligent Provisioning ....................................................................................................... 7
F10/Remote console features ................................................................................. 7
Always On Intelligent Provisioning .......................................................................... 7
Intelligent Provisioning operation ............................................................................ 8
Navigating Intelligent Provisioning .......................................................................... 9
Software installed with Intelligent Provisioning ................................................................ 10
Accessing Intelligent Provisioning ............................................ 11
Accessing Intelligent Provisioning from the iLO web interface ........................................ 11
Accessing Intelligent Provisioning using an iLO remote console session ....................... 11
F10 mode options ........................................................................ 12
Selecting F10 mode to use .............................................................................................. 12
Initial configuration in Intelligent Provisioning .................................................................. 12
Using the First Time Setup wizard ........................................................................ 12
Entering First Time Wizard settings ...................................................................... 12
Re-enabling Intelligent Provisioning ...................................................................... 13
Reinstalling Intelligent Provisioning ...................................................................... 13
Reinstalling from an ISO image ............................................................................ 14
Reinstalling from an RPM package (Linux only) ................................................... 14
About RAID arrays ........................................................................................................... 15
RAID 0 ................................................................................................................... 15
RAID 1 and RAID 1+0 (RAID 10) .......................................................................... 16
RAID 5 ................................................................................................................... 17
RAID 50 ................................................................................................................. 17
RAID 6 ................................................................................................................... 18
RAID 60 ................................................................................................................. 19
Dedicated spare .................................................................................................... 20
Failure spare activation ......................................................................................... 20
Configuring the server and installing an operating system ..... 21
Configuring the server and installing an OS with Intelligent Provisioning ....................... 21
Server support and special characters ................................................................. 21
Source media types and installation methods supported for each OS ................. 21
Selecting hardware settings .................................................................................. 21
Selecting the OS ................................................................................................... 24
Reviewing your settings ........................................................................................ 26
Checking installation parameters .......................................................................... 26
Performing maintenance ............................................................. 27
Updating firmware ............................................................................................................ 27
Determining the installed Intelligent Provisioning version ..................................... 28
Setting Intelligent Provisioning Preferences .................................................................... 28
Downloading Active Health System data ......................................................................... 29
Downloading an Active Health System log ........................................................... 29
Using Deployment Settings .............................................................................................. 30
Creating a Deployment Settings package ............................................................ 31
Using Deployment Settings package to configure a single server ....................... 32
Deployment Settings package-level actions ......................................................... 33
Deployment Settings package individual settings ................................................. 34
Entering ROM settings .......................................................................................... 35
Entering Intelligent Provisioning Preferences ....................................................... 35
Using the BIOS Configuration (RBSU) utility ................................................................... 36
About iLO Configuration ................................................................................................... 37
Running an iLO self-test ....................................................................................... 38

Hitachi HA800 Series Specifications

General

Brand	Hitachi
Model	HA800 Series
Category	Server
Language	English