Deploy The Operating System - Lenovo ThinkEdge SE350 V2 User Manual

Before setting up RAID for NVMe drives, follow the below steps to enable VROC:
1. Restart the system. Before the operating system starts up, press the key specified in the on-screen
instructions to enter the Setup Utility. (For more information, see the "Startup" section in the LXPM
documentation compatible with your server at
2. Go to System settings ➙ Devices and I/O Ports ➙ Intel® VMD technology ➙ Enable/Disable Intel®
VMD and enable the option.
3. Save the changes and reboot the system.
Intel VROC configurations
Intel offers various VROC configurations with different RAID level and SSD support. See the following for
more details.
Notes:
• Supported RAID levels varies by model. For the RAID level supported by SE350 V2, see
specifications.
• For more information about acquiring and installing the activation key, see
Intel VROC configurations for
PCIe NVMe SSDs
Intel VROC Standard
Intel VROC Premium
Intel VROC configurations for
SATA SSDs
Intel VROC SATA RAID

Deploy the operating system

Several options are available to deploy an operating system on the server.
Available operating systems
• Microsoft Windows Server
• VMware ESXi
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Complete list of available operating systems:
Tool-based deployment
• Multi-server
Available tools:
– Lenovo XClarity Administrator
http://sysmgt.lenovofiles.com/help/topic/com.lenovo.lxca.doc/compute_node_image_deployment.html
– Lenovo XClarity Essentials OneCLI
https://pubs.lenovo.com/lxce-onecli/onecli_r_uxspi_proxy_tool
https://pubs.lenovo.com/lxpm-overview/
Requirements
• Supports RAID levels 0, 1, and 10
• Requires an activation key
• supports RAID levels 0, 1, 5, and 10
• Requires an activation key
Requirements
• Supports RAID level 0, 1, 5, and 10.
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