CX2550 M1
Operating Manual
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Starting up and operation
6.3.3
Operating system installation
When starting up a PRIMERGY CX2550 M1 server node for the first time, there
are several installation options, depending on the system configuration:
–
Local USB installation
Instead of network booting, you can also boot and install your PRIMERGY
CX2550 M1 server node from local USB media.
Ê
Connect a USB storage medium (hard disk drive, optical drive or flash
media) containing a bootable image to your server.
Ê
Connect a USB mouse / keyboard and VGA display to your server.
Ê
Switch on the display.
Ê
Make sure that none of the servers from your network has been
dedicated to be a PXE server.
Ê
Press the On/Off button (item 2 in figure
3 on page 39
).
Your PRIMERGY CX2550 M1 server node will boot from the local disk
image.
Ê
Follow the on-screen instructions.
–
iSCSI boot
iSCSI (Internet SCSI) is a protocol for linking servers and data storage
facilities, similar to the Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP). iSCSI means “SCSI
over Internet Protocol”. iSCSI boot allows a server to be booted remotely
from a drive in an iSCSI-based Storage Area Network (SAN).
For further instructions, please refer to the “iSCSI Boot for PRIMERGY
Servers with Intel Network Controllers” installation and configuration guide,
on the Fujitsu manuals server under
x86 Servers
-
Expansion Cards
-
Network
Controllers
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Intel Network Controllers
.
