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ThinkServer RD330 and
RD430 Operating System
Installation Guide

This guide provides instructions on how to install an operating system on the following Lenovo

®

servers:

• ThinkServer

®

RD330

• ThinkServer RD430

This guide contains the following information:

• “Before installing an operating system” on page 1

• “Installing a Microsoft Windows Server 2008 operating system” on page 1

• “Installing a Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system” on page 3

• “Installing a Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2011 operating system” on page 4

• “Installing device drivers for Windows operating systems” on page 9

• “Installing a Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 operating system and device drivers” on page 9

• “Installing a Linux operating system” on page 11

• “Installing device drivers for Linux operating systems” on page 17

• “Installing VMware ESXi 5.0” on page 17

Before installing an operating system

Ensure that you have prepared the following items before installing an operating system:

• Prepare an operating system installation disc with license.

• Print the related instructions in this guide or ensure that you can view the PDF version on another computer.

• Ensure that your server has supported hard disk drives installed.

• Configure RAID for your server before installing an operating system. For information about configuring

RAID, refer to the

User Guide

on the documentation DVD that comes with your server. You always can

obtain all the most up-to-date documentation for your server from the Lenovo Web site at:
http://www.lenovo.com/ThinkServerUserGuides

• Prepare a Universal Serial Bus (USB) storage device that contains the required device drivers for

your server model. To download device drivers, go to http://www.lenovo.com/drivers and follow the
instructions on the Web page.

• Set the optical drive that you want to use as the first startup device.

Notes:

• For onboard SAS software RAID, it is not supported to install an operating system in Unified Extensible

Firmware Interface (UEFI) mode. Do not start the server from the DVD-ROM device listed in “UEFI:
DVD-ROM name” on the

Boot Options

menu to install an operating system.

• For onboard SAS software RAID, it is not supported to install an operating system on a partition greater

than 2.2 TB.

Installing a Microsoft Windows Server 2008 operating system

This topic provides instructions on installing the following operating systems:

• Microsoft

®

Windows

®

Server 2008 Standard Edition (x86 and x64)

1

Summary of Contents for ThinkServer RD330

Page 1: ...ersion on another computer Ensure that your server has supported hard disk drives installed Configure RAID for your server before installing an operating system For information about configuring RAID refer to the User Guide on the documentation DVD that comes with your server You always can obtain all the most up to date documentation for your server from the Lenovo Web site at http www lenovo com...

Page 2: ...and click I accept the license terms Then click Next 8 Select Custom Advanced for fresh installation 9 When all hard disk drives available on the server are displayed do one of the following to select or create a drive partition in which to install the operating system Create a partition automatically If you want to use the entire hard disk drive as one primary partition select Disk 0 unallocated ...

Page 3: ...This process takes several minutes 3 When the Windows Server 2008 R2 installation window opens configure the following options as you need and then click Next Language to install Time and currency format Keyboard or input method 4 Click Install now 5 Select the Windows operation system edition that you have purchased Then click Next Note The following steps are based on the scenario that Windows S...

Page 4: ...emium Add on on page 7 Installing a Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard operating system This topic provides instructions on how to install a Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard operating system Notes Ensure that you have prepared all the required items before installing an operating system See Before installing an operating system on page 1 Before the installat...

Page 5: ...em that share a central directory database Select this option to set up a full new installation of the Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard operating system Server Migration Select this option if you want to add this server to an existing Windows domain and then install the server applications If you select this option you can have only one server running the Windows Small Business Server 2...

Page 6: ...ess Server 2011 window click New installation 4 When all hard disk drives available on the server are displayed click I understand that if I click Install all files and folders on my primary hard drive will be deleted and then click Install The installation process starts The server will restart multiple times during the installation process Notes If you click Install all files and folders on your...

Page 7: ...nesses with a flexible and cost effective solution for deploying additional servers on a network running a Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2011 operating system or a Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2008 operating system The Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2011 Premium Add on includes the following items An additional license for the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard...

Page 8: ...ckaging 11 In the License Terms window click I accept the license terms and then click Next 12 In the Setup Role window select one of the following to specify which feature components you want to install and then click Next SQL Server Feature Installation SQL Server PowerPivot for SharePoint All Features With Defaults Note The following steps are based on the scenario that SQL Server Feature Insta...

Page 9: ...torage device 2 Copy the installation file to the server where the device driver is to be installed and then double click the installation file 3 Click Next in the Welcome window 4 In the License Agreement window select I accept the agreement and then click Next to continue 5 Specify the directory where you want to save the installation file and then click Next 6 Click Install to begin the install...

Page 10: ...ated automatically Manually create a partition If you want to create a partition manually do the following a Select Disk 0 unallocated space for the hard disk drive on which you want to install the operating system click Drive options advanced and then click New b Type the amount of space in MB and then click Apply c Click Next The selected drive partition will be formatted and the applicable file...

Page 11: ...e device contains an RPM package named DKMS 2 0 5 1 noarch rpm After you install the operating system you will need to install the package to enable the Xen Virtualization Host mode See instructions later in this topic Ensure that you have configured the following settings in the Setup Utility program The optical drive is set as the first startup device The USB storage device is set as the seconda...

Page 12: ...ollowing a Click Partitioning b In the Preparing Hard Disk window select Custom Partitioning for experts and click Next c In the Expert Partitioner window select the hard disk drive on which you want to install the operating system in the System View area Then click Add d When a window opens prompting you to select a partition type select Primary Partition and click Next e Type the amount of space...

Page 13: ...t the server Installing a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 7 operating system This topic provides instructions on how to install a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 7 x86 and x64 operating system Notes Ensure that you have prepared all the required items before installing an operating system See Before installing an operating system on page 1 Follow the instructions on the screen in addition to the instruction...

Page 14: ...New 2 In the Add Partition window select swap from the File System Type drop down list box 3 In the Allowable Drives field select the hard disk drive on which you want to install the operating system 4 Type the amount of space in MB in the Size field and then click OK 5 Click Next 11 When the GRUB boot loader window opens select the settings that meet your needs and then click Next 12 In the Netwo...

Page 15: ... in this topic To install a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 1 x86 and x64 operating system do the following 1 Insert the operating system installation disc into the optical drive that you have set as the first startup device Then start the server from the optical drive 2 When the Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation welcome window opens select one of the following and then press Enter Install or upgra...

Page 16: ...the File System Type drop down list box 4 In the Allowable Drivers field select the hard disk drive on which you want to install the operating system 5 Type the amount of space in MB in the Size field and then click OK 13 When the Format Warnings window opens prompting you to format the hard disk drive click Format 14 In the Writing storage configuration to disk window click Write changes to disk ...

Page 17: ...s on installing VMware ESXi 5 0 which is a virtualization hypervisor Notes Ensure that you have prepared all the required items before installing an operating system See Before installing an operating system on page 1 The VMware ESXi 5 0 is not supported on onboard SAS software RAID configuration Follow the instructions on the screen in addition to the instructions in this topic To install VMware ...

Page 18: ...even characters 9 When the Confirm Install window opens press F11 to start the installation process 10 When the Installation Complete window opens press Enter to restart the server The installation finishes Remove the disc from the optical drive 18 ...

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Page 20: ...ubject to restrictions set forth in Contract No GS 35F 05925 Lenovo the Lenovo logo and ThinkServer are trademarks of Lenovo in the United States other countries or both Hyper V Microsoft SQL Server Windows and Windows Server are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds Other company product or service names may be trademarks or service marks...

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