Contents
Express5800/R320g-E4,
R320g-M4
Installation Guide (VMware)
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Contents
Manuals ................................................................................................................................................................. 2
Contents ................................................................................................................................................................ 3
Conventions Used in This Document .................................................................................................................... 5
Notations used in the text .............................................................................................................................. 5
Optical disk drive ........................................................................................................................................... 5
Hard disk drive .............................................................................................................................................. 5
Removable media ......................................................................................................................................... 5
Abbreviations of Operating Systems (VMware) ............................................................................................ 6
POST ........................................................................................................................................................... 6
BMC
........................................................................................................................................................... 6
Trademarks ........................................................................................................................................................... 7
Warnings and Additions to This Document ............................................................................................................ 8
Latest editions ............................................................................................................................................... 8
Chapter 1
Installing Operating System ............................................................................................................... 9
1.
Setup Procedure ............................................................................................................................................. 10
1.1
Requirements for Setup ....................................................................................................................... 11
1.2
Preparations for Setup ......................................................................................................................... 12
Prepare NEC Express5800/ft series ....................................................................................... 12
Prepare external storage device ............................................................................................. 14
1.3
Enabling Internal Hard Disk Drive ........................................................................................................ 15
1.4
Enabling Fibre Channel
card ............................................................................................................... 19
1.5
Disabling OS Boot Monitoring Function ............................................................................................... 23
1.6
Setting HBA configuration by using Qlogic ........................................................................................... 25
1.7
Installing VMware ESXi ........................................................................................................................ 32
Installing VMware ESXi ........................................................................................................... 32
Configuring VMware ESXi ....................................................................................................... 35
Using Host Client .................................................................................................................... 38
Firewall setting for the ESXi host ............................................................................................ 39
1.8
Installing ftSys Management Appliance ............................................................................................... 40
Checking the Installation Destination Disk .............................................................................. 40
Installing ftSys Management Appliance ................................................................................... 42
1.9
Installing ft control software ................................................................................................................. 50
1.10
Setup after installing ft control software ............................................................................................. 55
Log Server ............................................................................................................................. 55
Installing Additional Packages ............................................................................................... 57
Checking status of ft server ................................................................................................... 58
1.11
Connecting and Configuring Options ................................................................................................. 59
1.12
Enabling OS Boot Monitoring Function .............................................................................................. 60
1.13
Backing up System Information ......................................................................................................... 61
BIOS SETUP ......................................................................................................................... 61
System information ................................................................................................................ 62
BMC Configuration ................................................................................................................ 62
1.14
Setting Up the Virtual Machine .......................................................................................................... 63
2.
Procedures after Completion of Installation .................................................................................................... 64
2.1
Confirmation of the Kernel Version ...................................................................................................... 64
2.2
Confirmation of the ft control software Version..................................................................................... 65
2.3
Precautions for Changing the Configuration after Setup ...................................................................... 66
If the network settings of the ESXi host or root user password has been changed ................. 66
If the IP address of Log Server or Host Name has been Changed ......................................... 67
Changing the Firewall Rules on ftSys Management Appliance ............................................... 68
