Overview; Types And Roles; Starting Remote Console - Hitachi Compute Blade 500 Series User Manual

Overview

This section describes UEFI and BIOS related to server blades.

Types and roles

The following table shows three types of UEFI and BIOS for server blades.
UEFI
(Unified Extensible
Firmware Interface)
Disk array utilities
Emulex PXE BIOS
iSCSISELECT
utilities
Fibre Channel
mezzanine card
BIOS

Starting remote console

To start a remote console. Perform following procedure for starting the
remote console.
1 Start a new web browser from the system console.
.
2 Enter the URL of management module web console (enter "https://
.
192.168.0.1/" when factory default setting) into the address field box of
the browser.
1-2
Types
Performs settings of processors, DIMMs, OS boot path, and
onboard devices [enable/disable] in the server blade using UEFI
setup menus of UEFI. For the details, see
Performs settings of HDDs/SSDs and RAID in the server blade
using setup menus of utilities. For the details, see
utilities on page
Performs settings of controller in the server blade for using OS
from PXE boot or iSCSI boot. Using setup menus of BIOS for
settings. For the details, see
Performs settings of controller in the server blade for using OS
from iSCSI boot. Using setup menus of utility for settings. For the
details, see
Performs settings of mezzanine cards in the server blade using a
setup menu of mezzanine card BIOS. For the details, see
channel mezzanine card BIOS on page
UEFI and BIOS Configuration Overview
Hitachi Compute Blade 500 Series EFI User's Guide
Table 1-1 Types
Roles
1-4.
PXE boot on page
iSCSI on page 1-5.
UEFI on page 1-4.
Disk array
1-5.
Fibre
1-6.