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HP ProLiant SL165s G7 Server

Software Configuration Guide

Part number 635254-001
First edition March 2011

Summary of Contents for ProLiant SL165s G7

Page 1: ...HP ProLiant SL165s G7 Server Software Configuration Guide Part number 635254 001 First edition March 2011 ...

Page 2: ... statements accompanying such products and services Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein Microsoft Windows and Windows Server are U S registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation Intel is a trademark of Intel Corporation in the U S and other countries AMD is a trademark of ...

Page 3: ...custom Setup values 32 Clearing CMOS 33 Power On Self Test POST 33 POST error indicators 34 POST related troubleshooting 35 OS installation 36 Supported OS 36 OS pre installation procedure 36 Hardware setup 36 BIOS update 37 Easy Set up CD Instruction 37 Server management 38 Pre and post installation procedures 38 Pre installation procedures 38 Post installation procedures 38 Configuring the BMC 3...

Page 4: ...es to test system resources and run the operating system Perform run time routines Using the software perform basic hardware routines that can be called from DOS and Windows applications BIOS Setup Utility NOTE For ease of reading the BIOS Setup Utility will be referred to as Setup or Setup Utility in this guide Also the screenshots used in this guide display default system values These values may...

Page 5: ...ings from the default or current configuration Accessing the Setup Utility 1 Turn on the monitor and the server If the server is already turned on save your data and exit all open applications then restart the server 2 During POST press F10 If you fail to press F10 before POST is completed you need to restart the server and repeat this step The first page displayed is the Main menu Use the left an...

Page 6: ...once A parameter that is enclosed in square brackets is user configurable Grayed out parameters are not user configurable for one of the following reasons The field value is auto configured or auto detected The field value is informational only The field is password protected Enter Select a field value or display a submenu screen Display more options for items marked with Tab Use ENTER TAB or SHIF...

Page 7: ...y menu selections For detailed information and screenshots of these Setup menus and their related submenus refer to the following sections Main Menu Figure 3 Main Menu NOTE The time is in 24 hour format For example 5 30 A M appears as 05 30 00 and 5 30 P M as 17 30 00 If you unplug the battery setup time values will be 00 00 00 ...

Page 8: ...rial number and the MAC addresses of NIC1 NIC2 NIC3 and NIC4 System Serial Number The serial number is indicated on the serial number label pull tab on the front panel NIC 1 MAC Address Displays NIC 1 MAC Address NIC 2 MAC Address Displays NIC 2 MAC Address NIC 3 MAC Address Displays NIC 3 MAC Address NIC 4 MAC Address Displays NIC 4 MAC Address Asset Tag Enter the server asset tag POST F1 Prompt ...

Page 9: ... following pages Memory Configuration You can use this screen to select options for the Memory Configuration settings Use the up and down Arrow keys to select item Use the Plus and Minus keys to change the value of the selected option The settings are described on the following pages AHCI Configuration Configure AHCI settings The settings are described on the following pages IPMI Configuration Sel...

Page 10: ...ngs of onboard peripherals The settings are described on the following pages Virtual Floppy Disable Virtual Floppy Disabled Enable Virtual Floppy Enabled Power Efficiency Mode Impact groups as CPU Configuration CPU Bridge Configuration PCI Express Configuration For the Efficiency mode the configuration settings are made as follows Memory Speed Max DIMM Speed Memory Interleaving Full ASPM Disabled ...

Page 11: ...information to display Note Zero is always the Boot Strap Processor or main CPU All others are Application Processors AMD Virtualization AMD V Disable AMD Virtualization Disabled Enable AMD Virtualization Enabled PowerNow Disable the generation of ACPI_PPC _PSS and _PCT objects Disabled Enable the generation of ACPI_PPC _PSS and _PCT objects Enabled Power Capping Select the performance P state 0 i...

Page 12: ...o the specific application Enabled Disable the Software Prefetcher Disabled Active Processor Cores Number of Cores ALL to enable in processor All Number of Cores 2 cores left to enable in processor 2 Number of Cores 4 cores left to enable in processor 4 Number of Cores 6 cores left to enable in processor 6 Number of Cores 8 cores left to enable in processor 8 Number of Cores 10 cores left to enabl...

Page 13: ...ible link rate based on the chipset and drives installed It s the default value AUTO System BIOS sets 1 5Gb s Max link rate based on the chipset and drives installed 1 5Gb s Max System BIOS sets 3Gb s Max link rate based on the chipset and drives installed 3Gb s Max Drive Write Cache Drive Write Cache feature disabled on all dumb SATA drives This avoids the possibility of data loss due to a power ...

Page 14: ...u Figure 7 Memory Configuration submenu Table 6 Memory Configuration submenu fields Field Description Memory Configuration Configure memory settings Advanced ECC Configuration Configure ECC settings DRAM Timing Configuration Configure memory clock frequency ...

Page 15: ...uration submenu Table 7 AHCI Configuration submenu fields Field Description AHCI BIOS Support Configure the AHCI BIOS Support settings AHCI port0 While entering setup BIOS auto detects the Presence of IDE devices This option displays the status of auto detection of IDE devices ...

Page 16: ...bient temperature CPU fan speed system fan speed chassis fan speed These items cannot be changed by the user It accords with the sense of the case If there is LV CPU and no card in slot1 then System Fan 6 Rotor 1 and System Fan 6 Rotor 2 no display Watchdog Configuration Select Watchdog Configuration in the left frame of the screen and press enter to go to the submenu for that item That will displ...

Page 17: ...dress in decimal in the form of XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX less than 256 and in decimal only MAC Address Enter MAC address in HEX in the form of XX XX XX XX XX XX XX in HEX only Subnet Mask Enter Subnet Mask in decimal in the form of XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX less than 256 and in decimal only Default Gateway Address Enter Gateway address in decimal in the form of XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX less than 256 and in decima...

Page 18: ... Log The option specifies BMC system event log Select this option and press Enter to access the submenu to view the contents of System Event log Clear BMC System Event Log The option specifies clear system event log If the BMC Event log is full you can choose this item to clear out the BMC Event log If this option is selected a confirmation prompt will appear before the log is cleared ...

Page 19: ...Table 11 Hardware Health Information submenu fields Field Description Temperature Show a list of sensor temperature Fan Rotation Rate Show system Fan Rotation Rate Figure 14 Watchdog Configuration submenu Table 12 Watchdog Configuration submenu fields Field Description Options ...

Page 20: ...ts a10 minute timeout value for BMC to wait before assuming the system has crashed and needs to reset The setting default value is 10 minutes This is the default setting 10 Min Sets a 5 minute timeout value for BMC to wait before assuming the system has crashed and needs to reset 5 Min Sets a 15 minute timeout value for BMC to wait before assuming the system has crashed and needs to reset 15 Min S...

Page 21: ...t address and IRQ 4 for the interrupt address This is the default setting The majority of serial port or COM1 ports on computer systems use IRQ4 and I O port 3F8 as the standard setting The most common serial device connected to this port is a mouse If the system do not use a serial device it is best to set this port to Disabled 3F8 IRQ4 Set this value to allow the serial port to use 2F8 as its I ...

Page 22: ...rd VGA Always Enabled AMD IOMMU Enable IOMMU Input Output Memory Management Unit implementation for address translation and protection services Enabled Disable IOMMU Input Output Memory Management Unit implementation for address translation and protection services Disabled ASPM Mode Disable PCI Express L0s and L1 link power states Disabled Enable PCI Express L0s and L1 link power states Enabled PC...

Page 23: ...n submenu 1 Table 15 Remote Access Configuration submenu fields 1 Field Description Options BIOS Serial Console When Enabled can configure related settings Enabled Disable BIOS Serial Console type Disabled NOTE Figure 18 shows the Remote Access Configuration submenu when the BIOS Serial Console enabled ...

Page 24: ... per second of the serial port 09600 8 n 1 Flow Control Set this value to not allow Flow Control This item disappears when Remote Access is disabled This is the default setting None Select this value to make Flow Control by Hardware This item disappears when Remote Access is disabled Hardware Select this value to make Flow Control by Software This item disappears when Remote Access is disabled Sof...

Page 25: ... Support for ANSI VT100 terminals This is the default setting Enabled Sredir Memory Display Delay Do not give the delay in seconds to display memory information No Delay Give the delay in one second to display memory information Delay 1 Sec Give the delay in two second to display memory information Delay 2 Sec Give the delay in four second to display memory information Delay 4 Sec Trusted Platform...

Page 26: ...ge USB Mass Device Configuration items are displayed From this item you can get some information about the device some information you can configure it if needed Table 18 USB Configuration submenu fields Field Description Options USB BIOS Support Disable support for legacy USB Disabled Enable support for legacy USB Enabled ...

Page 27: ...ion submenu fields Field Description Options Embedded NIC Port 1 Control Disable onboard NIC port 1 Disabled Enable onboard NIC port 1 Enabled Embedded NIC Port 1 PXE Disable onboard NIC port 1 PXE Disabled Enable onboard NIC port 1 PXE Enabled Wake On LAN Allow wake up in S4 S5 over LAN This is the default setting Enabled Disabled Wake On LAN in S4 S5 Disabled ...

Page 28: ...ot Device Priority submenu section Boot Device Priority Use this screen to specify the order in which the system checks for a boot device Hard Disk Drives Specifies the boot Device Priority sequence from available Hard Drives USB Device Boot Priority Force USB devices automatically showing up as top priority within their device class in the standard boot order list This is the default setting High...

Page 29: ...s the default setting Enabled Splash Screen Disable the Splash Screen function Disabled Enable the Splash Screen function Enabled NUMLOCK Disable Power on state for Numlock Off Select Power on state for Numlock On Boot Device Priority submenu To change the boot order select a boot category type such as Hard disk drives Removable media or ATAPI CD ROM devices from the boot menu For example if the 1...

Page 30: ...u select a boot category from the boot menu a list of devices in that category appears Security menu The Security menu allows users to set a supervisor password When entered this password allows the user to access and change all settings in the Setup Utility Figure 25 Security menu ...

Page 31: ...y and then press Enter The Password Installed OK is displayed Press OK to finish 4 Press F10 to save the password and close the Setup Utility Setup automatically changes the supervisor Password To change the supervisor password 1 In the Security menu screen in the Change Supervisor Password field press Enter The Enter New Password window displays Type a new password in the Enter New Password box 2...

Page 32: ...ettings from the Setup Utility and keep them in a safe place If the custom values ever need restoring after clearing CMOS you must run the Setup Utility and enter these custom settings again Having a record of these custom settings makes this much easier Loading system defaults If the system fails after you make changes in the Setup menus reboot the server enter Setup and load the system default s...

Page 33: ...e system board 4 Press clear CMOS button J27 A to clear the CMOS memory 5 Perform the post installation procedures 6 During POST press F10 to access the Setup Utility 7 Press F9 to load the system default values 8 Presses F10 to save the changes you made and close the Setup Utility Flashing the Bootblock To flash the bootblock 9 Run HPQUSB exe to create a bootable DOS ROMPAQ disk on USB key 10 Mak...

Page 34: ...ded that you correct the error before proceeding even if the server appears to boot successfully If your system displays one of the messages marked below with an asterisk write down the code and message and contact your HP Customer Support provider When no POST error message is displayed but the server stops during POST listen for beep codes Table 23 lists the most common POST error messages with ...

Page 35: ...ksum Bad 041 Display memory test failed 040 Refresh timer test failed 048 Password check failed 00B CMOS Memory Size Wrong 010 Floppy Controller Failure 00C RAM R W test failed 003 CMOS Battery Low 701 Insufficient Runtime space for MPS data System may operate in PIC or Non MPS mode 702 No enough APIC ID in range 0 0Fh can be assigned to IO APICs Re assigning CPUs local APIC ID may solve this issu...

Page 36: ...t Linux OS Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 4 errata x86 and EM64T Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 x86 and EM64T SLES 10 x86 and EM64T SP3 SLES 11 x86 and EM64T http www redhat com Sun Solaris Linux OS Solaris 10 x86 U8 x64 U9 http www sun com sol aris Virtualization VMWare ESX 4 0 U2 4 1 U1 RedHat Virtualization KVM SLES Xen Citrix XenServer 5 6 U1 Microsoft Windows Hyper V R2 w SP1 http www citrix com OS p...

Page 37: ...from that particular hard drive BIOS update HP recommends that you update the server BIOS with the latest system BIOS version to take advantage of the most recent compatibility fixes You can download the latest HP ProLiant SL165s G7 server BIOS at www hp com NOTE For ease of reading the HP ProLiant SL165s G7 Server Easy Set up CD will be simply referred to as the Easy Set up CD Easy Set up CD Inst...

Page 38: ...nents are installed according to the described step by step instructions 2 Check to make sure you have not left loose tools or parts inside the server 3 Reinstall any expansion boards riser board assemblies peripherals board covers brackets and system cables that you have removed 4 Reinstall the top cover a Place the cover on the chassis approximately 1 25 cm 0 5 in toward the rear of the unit the...

Page 39: ...on 5 Press Enter to bring up a prompt 6 If the first prompt is for a password press Enter again 7 At the Login prompt type your user name and press Enter The default user name is admin 8 At the Password prompt type your password and press Enter The default password is admin The message CLP Session Initiated displays 9 At the prompt type cd map1 nic1 to navigate to the correct directory The command...

Page 40: ...Port Configuration submenu fields section for more information 2 In the Console Redirection submenu set Remote Access to Enable See the Console Redirection submenu fields section for more information 3 Press F10 to Save and Exit NOTE For more information please refer to the Lights Out 100 User Guide available in the product manuals section of the product page on hp com ...

Page 41: ...sole 39 CPU Configuration 9 CPU Configuration submenu 11 CPU Information 11 CPU version 8 D default gateway 39 Discard Changes 32 Discard Changes and Exit 32 E Embedded NIC Port 1 Control 27 Embedded NIC Port 1 PXE 27 Embedded Serial Port 21 Embeded VGA Control 22 Exit menu 32 F Fan Control Policy 16 G General Help Screen 7 H Hard Disk Drives 28 Hardware Prefetcher 12 Hyper Transport Speed 12 I IP...

Page 42: ...30 SEL Configuration 16 Serial Port Assignment 21 Serial Port Configuration 16 Serial Port Connection Mode 21 Set LAN Configuration 16 Setup Utility menus 7 software 4 Splash Screen 29 supervisor password 30 supervisor password changing 31 supervisor password clearing 31 system configuration changing 4 System Date 8 system defaults 32 System Memory 8 System Time 8 system time and date setting 4 T ...

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