IBM x3950 8872, User Manual

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Installing your operating system without ServerGuide . . . . . . . . . . 65
Using the Boot Menu program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Configuring the Gigabit Ethernet controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Using the PXE boot agent utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Starting the PXE boot agent utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
PXE boot agent utility menu choices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Installing and using the baseboard management controller utility programs . . . 67
Enabling and configuring SOL using the OSA SMBridge management utility
program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Installing the OSA SMBridge management utility program . . . . . . . . 76
Using the baseboard management controller utility programs . . . . . . . 77
Using the SAS/SATA Configuration Utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Starting the SAS/SATA Configuration Utility program . . . . . . . . . . 79
SerialSelect Utility menu choices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Disk Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Using ServeRAID Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Configuring the controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Viewing the configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Using the Scalable Partition Web Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Creating a scalable partition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Deleting a scalable partition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Chapter 4. Updating IBM Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Appendix. Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Edition notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Trademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Important notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Product recycling and disposal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
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