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1 Altos R920

Installation Configuration Guide

This article describes the Altos R920 Installation

Configuration guide:

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Hardware parts give you a briefly and quick hardware

information about Altos R920

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The operating system installation tips.

INTRODUCTION

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Summary of Contents for Altos R920 Series

Page 1: ...ck OS installation guide on Altos R920 including Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 x64 Windows Server 2003 R2 Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 Edition Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 0 32 bit 64 bit SuSE L...

Page 2: ...Version 1 2 November 2008...

Page 3: ...informational purposes only ACER MAKES NO WARRANTIES EXPRESS OR IMPLIED IN THIS DOCUMENT Acer Acer Altos are registered trademarks or trademarks of Acer Incorporation Other product or company names me...

Page 4: ...10 VGA Driver Installation 10 Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation I O Expansion Module 10 RAID Utility Installation 10 Network Utility Installation 11 Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition with Int...

Page 5: ...tion Tips 21 Chipset Driver Installation 22 Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation 23 IOAT Driver Installation 23 SAS Backplane Driver Installation 24 TPM Driver Installation 24 VGA Driver Installation...

Page 6: ...ed SAS hardware RAID 38 Drivers Required 38 Software Required 38 Configuring integrated SAS hardware RAID 38 Installation Tips 39 Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation 39 Gigabit Ethernet Driver Instal...

Page 7: ...Hardware RAID Configuration Utility 47 Loading Factory Default Setting 47 Creating and Initialing a RAID Volume 47 Assigning a Hot Spare Disk 47 APPENDIX B INTEGRATED SAS IM CREATION 49 Configuring In...

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Page 9: ...Configuration Guide This article describes the Altos R920 Installation Configuration guide Hardware parts give you a briefly and quick hardware information about Altos R920 The operating system insta...

Page 10: ...DIMM DDR2 667 registered with ECC Maximum memory of 128GB Up to 21 GB s maximum bandwidth for FB DIMM 667 Support memory sparing and memory mirroring Storage Interface LSI SAS 1078 SAS controller Two...

Page 11: ...t BMC BMC Baseboard Management Controller IPMI 2 0 compliant Option Can install ARMC 3 R2 with Virtual Media and remote KVM support Availability sub system System Power Supply 1570W 1 1 Redundant Powe...

Page 12: ...Altos R920 Installation Configuration Guide 4 System Block Diagram BOARD LAYOUT...

Page 13: ...1 to 4 4 x 1 GB 4 x 1 GB 4 x 1 GB 4 x 1 GB 16 GB 1 to 6 6 x 1 GB 6 x 1 GB 6 x 1 GB 6 x 1 GB 24 GB 1 to 8 8 x 1 GB 8 x 1 GB 8 x 1 GB 8 x 1 GB 32 GB 1 to 2 2 x 2 GB 2 x 2 GB 2 x 2 GB 2 x 2 GB 16 GB 1 to...

Page 14: ...120 GB NOTE DIMM slot 1 in memory boards A B C and D is configured to sparing unit Memory population with mirroring Population with four memory boards Total Memory DIMM slot Memory board A Memory boa...

Page 15: ...ort Windows Server 2008 NOTE2 This Windows Server 2008 certification also applies to Standard Edition and Web Server 2008 NOTE3 EasyBUILD 8 0 build 200 or later can support Windows Server 2008 The dri...

Page 16: ...1 1001 EasyBUILD 8 0 build 200 or later Integrated SAS hardware RAID 2 20 0 64 EasyBUILD 8 0 build 200 or later Onboard Gigabit Ethernet 9 12 17 0 EasyBUILD 8 0 build 200 or later Add on Gigabit Ether...

Page 17: ...allation 2 Click on Load Driver when Where do you want to install Windows message displayed 3 Select Integrated Intel R RAID Controller SROMBSASFC A oemsetup inf as target driver 4 After loading the R...

Page 18: ...r is the IOAT device After the Gigabit Ethernet controller driver installation completed at previous step you would see Intel 7300 Chipset QuickData Technology Device listed in System devices VGA Driv...

Page 19: ...e Edition on Altos R920 with integrated SAS hardware RAID BIOS Required Altos R920 BIOS 23 or later BMC 17 or later and FRUSDR 14 or later are required to support Windows Server 2008 Drivers Required...

Page 20: ...ecognize integrated SAS hardware RAID Please replace the driver with the one provided by EasyBUILD You need an external USB floppy drive or USB Flash drive to load driver during the OS installation 1...

Page 21: ...t Ethernet Driver Installation 1 There is built in Ethernet controller driver with Widows Server 2008 x64 Please update the driver with EasyBUILD Please do the same on both of the Gigabit Ethernet dev...

Page 22: ...the optional I O Expansion module is installed on Altos R920 there are two additional Gigabit Ethernet available on Altos R920 The driver for the two additional Gigabit Ethernet will be installed auto...

Page 23: ...6 EasyBUILD 8 0 build 100 or later SAS Hot swap backplane 5 0 6262 1 EasyBUILD 8 0 build 100 or later Software Required The management utility for integrated SAS hardware RAID and NIC can be found in...

Page 24: ...D Controller Driver Server 2003 for x64 as target driver 4 After loading the RAID driver from diskette follow the normal procedure to finish the installation Chipset Driver Installation 1 After the in...

Page 25: ...n 8 0 build 100 for NIC driver in Driver required section 7 refer to directory of the 82563EB driver in Driver Required section 8 Click on Next and follow the instruction to finish the driver update 9...

Page 26: ...elect Search the best driver these locations and check Include this location in the search 6 Click on Browse and specify the path for the driver Please refer to the EasyBUILD Version 8 0 build 100 for...

Page 27: ...r is installed 4 After installing the driver you would see ATI ES1000 listed in Display adapters Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation I O Expansion Module If the optional I O Expansion module is insta...

Page 28: ...er the SNP is installed NOTE The Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 SP2 has included Microsoft Scalable Networking Pack You don t need to install this package RAID Utility Installation 1 Please insert the Eas...

Page 29: ...ter Trusted Platform Module 1 0 4 15 EasyBUILD 8 0 build 100 or later IOAT 1 2 78 6 EasyBUILD 8 0 build 100 or later SAS Hot swap backplane 5 0 6262 1 EasyBUILD 8 0 build 100 or later Software Require...

Page 30: ...ed SAS hardware RAID 3 Select Intel SAS RAID Controller Driver Server 2003 32 bit as target driver 4 After loading the RAID driver from diskette follow the normal procedure to finish the installation...

Page 31: ...00 for NIC driver in Driver required section 7 Click on Next and follow the instruction to finish the driver update 8 After installing the driver you would see Intel R PRO 1000 EB Network Connection w...

Page 32: ...he path for the driver Please refer to the EasyBUILD Version 8 0 build 100 for Hot swap backplane driver in Driver required section 7 Click on Next and follow the instruction to finish the driver upda...

Page 33: ...on I O Expansion Module If the optional I O Expansion module is installed on Altos R920 there are two additional Intel 82575EB Gigabit Ethernet available on Altos R920 1 For the two more Ethernet Cont...

Page 34: ...ble Networking Pack You don t need to install this package RAID Utility Installation 1 Please insert the EasyBUILD 8 0 build 100 into the optical drive 2 Expand Utilities Altos R920 Integrated SAS Har...

Page 35: ...tility for integrated SAS hardware RAID can be found in the EasyBUILD 8 0 build 100 or later Software Version EasyBUILD Version RAID Web Console 2 2 19 01 EasyBUILD 8 0 build 100 or later Configuring...

Page 36: ...ernel 1 You can find the Intel 82563EB driver in EasyBUILD 8 0 build 100 Please refer to directory of the 82563EB driver in Driver Required section and copy the driver from the EasyBUILD 8 0 build 100...

Page 37: ...l auto detect the Intel 82563EB network controller and help you to configure it kudzu 4 Restart the network service to bring up both of the network interfaces service network restart IOAT driver insta...

Page 38: ...e utility from the EasyBUILD 8 0 build 100 to HDD first mount media cdrecorder cp R media cdrecorder app r920 Integrated_SAS Linux tmp 2 Install RAID Web Console 2 utility cd tmp unzip ir3_Linux_RWC2_...

Page 39: ...ng integrated SAS hardware RAID Please refer to the Appendix A for the integrated SAS hardware RAID configuration Installation Tips NOTE There is no built in driver for Integrated SAS hardware RAID in...

Page 40: ...cp R mnt Disk R920 NIC Intel pro1000 lx tmp 2 Remove the OS built in NIC driver rmmod e1000 ko 3 Change the directory to the driver source and install the driver cd tmp src make install insmod e1000 k...

Page 41: ...er installation 1 Please remove the old version of IOAT driver from the system manually cd lib modules uname r kernel drivers dma mv ioatdma ko ioatdma ko bak 2 You can find the IOAT driver in EasyBUI...

Page 42: ...chmod 755 install sh chmod 755 RunRPM sh install sh 3 Type y to accept the license agreen and select 1 for full installation 4 To start RAID Web Console 2 on select applications System Tools RAID Web...

Page 43: ...ver 10 SP1 EM64T to install the OS 2 Boot the system with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 EM64T CD 1 3 Follow the instruction to install the OS 4 At the Installation Settings select the Software a...

Page 44: ...Ethernet available on Altos R920 1 You can find the Intel 82575EB driver in EasyBUILD 8 0 build 100 Please refer to directory of the 82575EB driver in Driver Required section and copy the driver from...

Page 45: ...d ioatdma ko modprobe ioatdma ll sys class dma When IOAT driver installation completed you could see subdirectories and files for each subdirectory of sys class dma folder RAID Utility Installation 1...

Page 46: ...e EasyBUILD 8 0 build 100 or later Device Version EasyBUILD Version Onboard VGA N A Built in Onboard Chipset N A Built in Integrated SAS hardware RAID 00 00 03 05 Built in Onboard Gigabit Ethernet 7 6...

Page 47: ...the Intel 82563EB driver in EasyBUILD 8 0 build 100 Please refer to directory of the 82563EB driver in Driver Required section and copy the driver from the EasyBUILD 8 0 build 100 to HDD first The SUS...

Page 48: ...you can manually mount EasyBUILD 8 0 build 100 DVD with the command mount dev dvd mnt cp R mnt Disk R920 NIC Intel pro1000 lx tmp 2 Change the directory to the driver source and install the driver cd...

Page 49: ...nux tmp 2 Install RAID Web Console 2 utility cd tmp unzip ir3_Linux_RWC2_v2_19_01 zip chmod 755 install sh chmod 755 RunRPM sh install sh 3 Type y to accept the license agreen and select 1 for full in...

Page 50: ...tioning option Recommended Configures default partitions based on the capacity of the hard drive Advanced You specify all partition settings 8 Select how the ESX Server will boot in Advanced Optioins...

Page 51: ...e Infrastructure Client to download the VMware Infrastructure Client utility VMware Infrastructure Client Installation on Windows 1 To install the VMware Infrastructure Client utility on your console...

Page 52: ...USDR 14 or later are recommended to support UnixWare 7 1 4 Drivers Required For SCO UnixWare 7 1 4 Installation the following device drivers are required The drives can be also downloaded from Acer GC...

Page 53: ...are 7 1 4 Installation CD and follow the instructions 3 When the below screen displayed please insert the Integrated SAS hardware RAID driver diskette into the external USB floppy drive and select Ins...

Page 54: ...alled the OSMP and exit the scoadmin DO NOT reboot the server Please add ACPI Y and ENABLE_JT Y into the last entry of the stand boot first vi stand boot ACPI Y ENABLE_JT Y 5 Save the change then rebo...

Page 55: ...menu 2 Select Configuration Wizard 3 Select Add Configuration default and click on Next 4 Select Custom Configuration default and click on Next 5 Select the drives that you want to add into the array...

Page 56: ...uration Guide 48 Physical Drives 3 Select Make Global HSP or Make Dedicated HSP and click on Go 4 Click on Home to go back to the configuration menu You will see the disk marked as HOTSPARE in pink an...

Page 57: ...ect a disk To add the disk to the volume change the No to Yes by pressing the key key or space bar 5 Press M to keep the existing data on the first disk or press D to overwrite it NOTE All data in HDD...

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