Chapter 4: Installing and Configuring a DSM
DSM Installation on bare metal using IBM Cloud
DSM Installation and Configuration Guide
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If you are using single-processor with multi-core, e.g., E3 CPU, then request to boot the IPMI CDROM first
and then the hard disk. The E3 motherboard does not offer an F11 to change the boot order during boot up
so we need to boot IPMI CDROM first.
Once IBM Cloud has configured your changes, you can mount the DSM ISO through virtual media using KVM.
6. Log into the IBM Cloud portal and click
Devices > Device List
and select your bare metal device.
7. Click on
Remote Management
tab and click show and copy the KVM password.
8. On the
Remote Management
tab, click http://vpn.softlayer.com link to connect to the VPN.
9. When you've successfully logged into the IBM Cloud VPN, you can connect to the IPMI interface. Select your
device from the
Devices > Device List
.
10. Click
Actions
and select
KVM Console
.
11. Next, another browser popup will redirect you the IPMI login screen. Log in as root user and the associated
password, from the
Remote Management
tab.
12. After you have logged into IPMI, click
Virtual Media > CDROM image
.
13. You need to fill in the following information: Share host, path to image, user name, and password. This is the
same information for mounting IBM Cloud NAS. You can reuse the information from
Storage > File Storage
.
Use the NAS IP address instead of the DNS name for the Share host field. Ping the NAS hostname to get the IP
address.
14. Click
Mount
and
Refresh Status
. Device 1 should show as mounted. Make sure that you've requested mount
permission from IBM Cloud support first. Otherwise, you cannot mount the virtual CDROM.
15. Click
Save
to save the information.
16. Navigate to
Remote Control > Console Redirection
and click
Launch Console
.
17. Download and run the resulting
.jnlp
file to open a Java console for your DSM.
18. From the power control menu in the Java Console, power cycle the DSM.
19. Wait for the DSM to boot up. It will try to boot from network first, time out, and then boot from the ISO image.
20. Click
Enter
when you see the "Thales" banner to begin the installation.
If you receive a message saying “cannot find kickstart file”, type cdrom1 at the boot prompt when you see the
Thales banner. The installation will proceed as normal.
Configure Virtual DSM in IBM Cloud
As of v6.0.2 the DSM
eth0
interface has DHCP enabled by default. If you have a DHCP server configured, your
virtual appliance will obtain an IP address from that server. See
"Configuring DSM using DHCP" on page 71
, for more
information about DHCP for DSM. If you want to assign a static IP address to your virtual DSM device, see
"Configuring DSM using Static IP Addressing" on page 71
, for how to disable DHCP. Follow the procedure below to
assign a static IP address for your virtual DSM device.
1. Gather the required system information from the Device menu option. You need the following information for
network port 0 (private network) and port 1 (public network):
o
Hostname
o
IP address
o
Subnet mask
o
Gateway address
Once you have this information, you need to log into the DSM CLI to configure the virtual device.