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bus for power to drive the device.
3.
Restart the blade to boot from the DVD-ROM.
4.
When the HP Network Storage System screen appears, enter qr to install the software.
Repeat steps 2–4 on each expansion blade.
Use a USB key
1.
Copy the ISO to a Linux system.
2.
Insert a USB key into the Linux system.
3.
Execute cat /proc/partitions to find the USB device partition, which is displayed as
dev/sdX. For example:
cat /proc/partitions
major minor
8
128
4.
Execute the following dd command to make USB the QR installer:
dd if=<ISO file name with path> of=/dev/sdi oflag=direct bs=1M
For example:
dd if=X9000-QRDVD-6.2.96-1.x86_64.iso of=/dev/sdi oflag=direct bs=1M
4491+0 records in
4491+0 records out
4709154816 bytes (4.7 GB) copied, 957.784 seconds, 4.9 MB/s
5.
Insert the USB key into the first expansion blade.
6.
Restart the blade to boot from the USB key. (Press F1 1 and use option 3 ).
7.
When the "HP Network Storage System" screen appears, enter qr to install the software.
Repeat steps 5–8 on each expansion blade.
Installing the first expansion blade
To install the first blade in the expansion module, complete these steps:
1.
Log into the blade in the first expansion slot. The X9730 Setup dialog box is displayed.
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Expanding an X9720 or X9320 10GbE cluster by an X9730 module
Use an external USB drive that has external power; do not rely on the USB
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