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  • Page 1 H3C Servers Operating System Installation Guide New H3C Technologies Co., Ltd. http://www.h3c.com Document version: 6W103-20181114...
  • Page 2 The information in this document is subject to change without notice. All contents in this document, including statements, information, and recommendations, are believed to be accurate, but they are presented without warranty of any kind, express or implied. H3C shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein.
  • Page 3 Preface This preface includes the following topics about the documentation: • Audience. • Conventions. • Documentation feedback. Audience This documentation is intended for: • Network planners. • Field technical support and servicing engineers. • Server administrators working with the Server. Conventions The following information describes the conventions used in the documentation.
  • Page 4 Symbols Convention Description An alert that calls attention to important information that if not understood or followed WARNING! can result in personal injury. An alert that calls attention to important information that if not understood or followed CAUTION: can result in data loss, data corruption, or damage to hardware or software. An alert that calls attention to essential information.

  • Page 5: Documentation Feedback

    Documentation feedback You can e-mail your comments about product documentation to info@h3c.com. We appreciate your comments.

  • Page 6: Table Of Contents

    Contents Overview ························································································ 1   Installation workflow ·········································································· 2   Selecting an installation mode ····························································· 3   Installing an OS ··············································································· 4     Preparing for installation ·············································································································· 4   Logging in to the server ········································································································ 4   Preparing an OS image ········································································································ 4  ...
  • Page 7   Acronyms ······························································································································· 98...

  • Page 8: Overview

    This document describes how to install an operating system (OS) in the BIOS Setup Utility through a drive, optical disk drive, bootable USB disk, and virtual media. This guide is applicable to the following products: • H3C UniServer R6900 G3 • H3C UniServer R4900 G3 •...

  • Page 9: Installation Workflow

    Installation workflow Figure 1 Installation workflow Start Prepare OS image Configure RAID Drive detected? Install storage controller driver OS installation completed Install device driver...

  • Page 10: Selecting An Installation Mode

    Checking the installation method for the target OS As a best practice, download a driver from the H3C website. For storage controller and operating system compatibility, see H3C UniServer R4900 G3 Server Hardware Option and Operating System Compatibility Matrices, H3C UniServer R4700 G3 Server...

  • Page 11: Installing An Os

    OS image through HDM." Enabling PXE (for H3C UniServer R4900/4700/2900/2700 G3) PXE is enabled by default and cannot be disabled if the BIOS boot mode is Legacy. This section describes how to enable PXE in UEFI boot mode. For more information about BIOS boot modes, see "Setting the BIOS boot...
  • Page 12 Click the Advanced tab, select Network Stack Configuration, and then press Enter. Set Network Stack, IPv4 PXE Support, and IPv6 PXE Support to Enabled. Figure 2 Enabling PXE Press F4 to save the configuration and reboot the server. Click the Save & Exit tab, and then select the boot option for PXE in the Boot Override area. The boot options for UEFI and Legacy boot modes are different.
  • Page 13 Figure 4 PXE boot options in Legacy boot mode Enabling PXE (for H3C UniServer R6900 G3) Enter the Front Page. Select Setup Utility. Click the Boot tab, and then set Network Stack to Enabled. Select UEFI:IPV4/IPV6 for PXE Boot Capability.
  • Page 14 Select PXE boot options in the EFI Boot Devices area. The boot options for UEFI and Legacy boot modes are different. For UEFI boot mode, select the option corresponding to the port connecting to the PXE server. As shown in Figure 3, port 1 connects to the PXE server, so you must select the option corresponding to port 1.
  • Page 15 Mounting an OS image through HDM This section mounts a virtual CD/DVD. To mount an OS image through HDM: Log in to the server from the HDM console. Select Media > Virtual Media Wizard from the navigation bar. Figure 8 Virtual Media Click the CD/DVD tab, and then click Browse in the CD/DVD Media: I area.
  • Page 16 Figure 9 Selecting a CD/DVD file Click Connect to complete mounting the CD/DVD image file. Figure 10 Mounting a CD/DVD image file Display the mounted image.

  • Page 17: Obtaining A Storage Controller Driver File

    Figure 11 Displaying the mounted image For H3C UniServer R6900 G3, enter the Front Page, and then select Windows Boot Manager. If you can find the mounted image file in the EFI Boot Devices area, the file has been mounted successfully.

  • Page 18: Setting The Bios Boot Mode

    Figure 14 Selecting a BIOS boot mode Press F4 to save the configuration and reboot the server. Setting the BIOS boot mode for H3C UniServer R6900 G3 The Legacy and UEFI boot modes are available. The default mode is UEFI. For the BIOS boot modes supported by different operating systems, see the operating system compatibility matrixes for the server.
  • Page 19 To set the BIOS boot mode: On the Front Page, select Setup Utility, click the Boot tab, select a boot type, and then press Enter. Figure 15 Setting the BIOS boot mode Select the Legacy or UEFI mode, and then press Enter. Figure 16 Selecting a BIOS boot mode...

  • Page 20: Configuring Raid

    Save & Exit tab, and then press Enter. This example selects UEFI:AMI Virtual CDROM0 1.00. Figure 17 Selecting a boot option For H3C UniServer R6900 G3, enter the Front Page, in the Boot Manager, select a boot option, and then press Enter. This example selects EFI USB Device(AMI Virtual CDROM0.
  • Page 21 Figure 18 Selecting a boot option Set the language, time, and keyboard layout, and then click Next. Figure 19 Setting the language, time, and keyboard layout Click Install now.
  • Page 22 Figure 20 Starting installing Windows Select an OS version, and then click Next. As a best practice, select an OS with a GUI. This example selects Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter (Server with a GUI). Figure 21 Selecting an OS version Select I accept the license terms, and then click Next.
  • Page 23 Figure 22 License terms Select an installation type, Custom or Upgrade. To install a new OS, select Custom. To upgrade your OS, select Upgrade. This example selects the Custom type. Figure 23 Selecting an installation type Click Load Driver, and then click Browse. CAUTION: Load the storage controller driver when installing a Windows OS to avoid the following issues: •...
  • Page 24 Figure 24 Disk not detected Figure 25 Loading a driver Select the path where the driver is located, and then click OK.
  • Page 25 Figure 26 Selecting the driver path Select the driver to install, and then click Next. Figure 27 Driver detected 10. Select the destination drive to install the OS, and then click Next.
  • Page 26 Figure 28 Loading RAID driver completed 11. Wait for the system to complete OS installation. Figure 29 Installing the OS 12. Set the password, and then click Finish after the system completes installation and enters the Settings page. The user name is Administrator, which cannot be modified.
  • Page 27 Figure 30 Setting the password 13. Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete on the keyboard of the remote console as prompted. Figure 31 OS installation completed 14. Enter the administrator password. For the OS to correctly identify hardware devices, install the Chipset driver after OS installation.

  • Page 28: Installing A Red Hat/Centos 6.X Os

    Figure 32 Entering the administrator password Figure 33 Entering the OS Installing a Red Hat/CentOS 6.x OS The installation procedures for Red Hat and CentOS 6.x OSs are similar. This example installs Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8. To install a Red Hat/CentOS 6.x OS: Enter BIOS and select boot options:...
  • Page 29 Save & Exit tab, and then press Enter. This example selects UEFI:AMI Virtual CDROM0 1.00. Figure 34 Selecting a boot option For H3C UniServer R6900 G3, enter the Front Page, in the Boot Manager, select a boot option, and then press Enter. This example selects EFI USB Device(AMI Virtual CDROM0.
  • Page 30 Figure 36 Confirming OS installation Select the line that starts with kernel, and then press e. Figure 37 Selecting the line that starts with kernel Input the linux dd command, and then press Enter. Then press b to start installation.
  • Page 31 Figure 38 Entering the kernel page On the page that opens, select Yes. Figure 39 Selecting a driver disk Select the mirrored interface to mount the driver disk.
  • Page 32 Figure 40 Selecting the mirrored interface Click OK. Figure 41 Confirming the next step Click No to not load any other drivers and enter self-test.
  • Page 33 Figure 42 Canceling loading any other drivers Press Tab, select OK or Skip, and then press Enter. This example selects Skip. Figure 43 Confirming media test 10. Click Next.
  • Page 34 Figure 44 Preparing OS configuration 11. Select the language, and then click Next Figure 45 Selecting the language 12. Select the keyboard, and then click Next.
  • Page 35 Figure 46 Selecting the keyboard 13. Select the device type, Basic Storage Devices or Specialized Storage Devices, and then click Next. This example selects Basic Storage Devices. Figure 47 Selecting the device type 14. Enter the host name in the Hostname field, and then click Next. To configure the network, click Configure Network on the lower left corner of the page.
  • Page 36 Figure 48 Setting the host name 15. Select your time zone, and then click Next. Figure 49 Selecting your time zone 16. Set the root password, and then click Next.
  • Page 37 Figure 50 Setting the root password 17. Select the type of installation, and then click Next. This example selects Use All Space. Figure 51 Selecting the type of installation 18. Back up all data on the disk, and then click Write changes to disk to format the disk. Figure 52 Confirming the formatting operation 19.
  • Page 38 The following server types are available: Basic Server—Base, without GUI. Database Server—Base, plus MySQL database, without GUI. Web Server—Base, plus PHP, Web server, and MySQL database client, without GUI. Identity Management Server. Virtualization Host—Base, virtualization platform. Desktop—Basic desktop, including commonly-used desktop software. Software Development Workstation—Includes base, virtualization platform, desktop platform, and development tools.
  • Page 39 21. Click Close, and then click Next. For the OS to start correctly, make sure the tboot package is not selected if the BIOS boot mode is UEFI. Figure 55 Base System Figure 56 Installing the OS 22. Click Reboot to reboot the server.

  • Page 40: Installing A Red Hat/Centos 7.X Os

    To install a Red Hat/CentOS 7.x OS: Enter BIOS and select boot options: For H3C UniServer R4900/4700/2900/2700 G3, enter the BIOS Setup Utility, select a boot option in the Save & Exit tab, and then press Enter. This example selects UEFI:AMI...
  • Page 41 Figure 59 Selecting a boot option For H3C UniServer R6900 G3, enter the Front Page, in the Boot Manager, select a boot option, and then press Enter. This example selects EFI USB Device(AMI Virtual CDROM0. Figure 60 Selecting a boot option...
  • Page 42 Figure 61 Confirming OS installation Input linux dd at the end of the line that starts with linuxefi, and then press F10 or Ctrl+X to start installation. Figure 62 Parameter configuration Perform the following steps to configure the parameters: a. Display the location of the driver. In this example, sr1 has a driver mounted, so you select b.
  • Page 43 Figure 63 Parameter configuration Select the system language, and then click Continue.
  • Page 44 Figure 64 Selecting the language Configure the options in Figure 65 as required. If an icon has a mark, it indicates that the configuration is incorrect, and you must reconfigure the option. The following describes only the steps for specifying a destination disk. The default settings are used for other options.
  • Page 45 Figure 65 Option configuration Click INSTALLATION DESTINATION. Select the disk where the OS is to be installed, and then click Done. This example uses automatic partitioning. To use manual partitioning, select I will configure partitioning. Then you must select Standard Partition from the New mount points will use the following partitioning scheme list for successful OS installation.
  • Page 46 Click Reclaim space to format the disk when the following dialog box appears. Figure 67 Confirming the formatting operation Click Delete all. When the status in the Action column changes to Delete, click Reclaim space to delete all partitions. Figure 68 Deleting the current partitions 10.
  • Page 47 Figure 69 Starting installing the OS 11. Click ROOT PASSWORD. Figure 70 User settings 12. Enter the root password, and then click Done. If the password is too simple, the system gives a prompt. To accept the simple password, click Done twice. Figure 71 Setting the root password 13.
  • Page 48 Figure 72 Creating a user account 14. Wait for the system to complete installation. Figure 73 Installing the OS 15. Click Reboot to reboot the server after the installation is complete.
  • Page 49 Figure 74 Rebooting the server Figure 75 Logging in to the OS...

  • Page 50: Installing An Suse Os

    Save & Exit tab, and then press Enter. This example selects UEFI:AMI Virtual CDROM0 1.00. Figure 76 Selecting a boot option For H3C UniServer R6900 G3, enter the Front Page, in the Boot Manager, select a boot option, and then press Enter. This example selects EFI USB Device(AMI Virtual CDROM0.
  • Page 51 Click Installation, and then press e. Figure 78 Confirming OS installation Input dud=1 at the end of the line that starts with linuxefi, and then press F10 to start installation. Figure 79 Editing the kernel Open the soft keyboard, and press Ctrl+Alt+F2 to enter the CLI console.
  • Page 52 Figure 80 Entering the CLI console Enter the modinfo aacraid command to identify whether the driver has been installed successfully. Press Ctrl+Alt+F7 to continue OS installation. Set the language and keyboard layout of the OS, select I Agree to the License Terms, and then click Next.
  • Page 53 Figure 81 Setting the language and keyboard layout Select Check ISO File as required, and then click Next. Figure 82 Media Check Click Next.
  • Page 54 Figure 83 System Probing Select an installation mode and then click Next. This example selects New Installation. Figure 84 Selecting an installation mode 10. Select your time zone, and then click Next.
  • Page 55 Figure 85 Selecting your time zone 11. Select the server base scenario, and then click Next. As a best practice, select Physical Machine for new installation. Figure 86 Selecting the server base scenario 12. To use the default settings, click Install. The system will start OS installation.
  • Page 56 Figure 87 Installing the OS To manually partition the disk: a. Click Partitioning, on the Preparing Hard Disk page select a partitioning method, and then click Next. If you select 1.IDE Disk, the system will automatically partition the disk based on the size of the disk.
  • Page 57 Figure 89 Partitioning the disk c. Click Add. On the page that opens, set the partition size, and then click Next. Figure 90 Adding a partition d. Select a file system and mount point, and then click Finish.
  • Page 58 Figure 91 Setting the partition To install software: a. Click Software. On the page that opens, select software and set system tasks, and then click OK. Figure 92 Selecting software 13. Click Install.
  • Page 59 Figure 93 Installing the OS 14. After the installation is complete, click Next. The system will automatically reboot. Figure 94 Performing installation...
  • Page 60 Figure 95 OS rebooting 15. Set the root password, and then click Next when the following page appears. Figure 96 Setting the root password 16. Click Next as prompted until the OS configuration is complete. The suse 12xxxx and UEFI OS and suse linux xxx boot options will appear on the BIOS Setup Utility for an SUSE 12 OS and SUSE 11 OS, respectively.

  • Page 61: Installing A Vmware Esxi Os

    Customizing an OS image integrated with a storage controller driver Download ESXi-Customizer and storage controller driver. You can download a storage controller driver from the H3C website. Run ESXI-Customizer.cmd, and perform the following tasks in the dialog box that opens: Select the original VMware ESXi ISO.
  • Page 62 Save & Exit tab, and then press Enter. This example selects UEFI:AMI Virtual CDROM0 1.00. Figure 99 Selecting a boot option For H3C UniServer R6900 G3, enter the Front Page, in the Boot Manager, select a boot option, and then press Enter. This example selects EFI USB Device(AMI Virtual CDROM0.
  • Page 63 Figure 100 Selecting a boot option Wait for the system to load the file. Figure 101 Loading ESXi installer...
  • Page 64 Figure 102 Loading the OS module Press Enter as prompted to continue installation. Figure 103 VMware ESXi installation Press F11.
  • Page 65 Figure 104 License Agreement Select the disk to install the OS and then press Enter. To see details, press F1. Figure 105 Selecting the disk to install the OS Confirm disk selection and then press Enter. To change to another disk, press Esc and then select another one.
  • Page 66 Figure 107 Selecting a keyboard layout Set the root password, and then press Enter. Figure 108 Setting the root password Press F11 to start installation. Figure 109 Confirming VMware ESXi OS installation 10. Press Enter to reboot the server. If the OS image is obtained from a CD/DVD or bootable USB disk, remove the CD/DVD or USB disk, and then press Enter to reboot the server.
  • Page 67 Figure 110 OS installation completed Figure 111 OS reboot completed 11. Press F2, enter the root password, and then press Enter. The OS installation is complete when the page as shown in Figure 113 appears.

  • Page 68: Installing A Citrix Os

    To install a Citrix OS: Enter BIOS and select boot options: For H3C UniServer R4900/4700/2900/2700 G3, enter the BIOS Setup Utility, select a boot option in the Save & Exit tab, and then press Enter. This example selects UEFI:AMI Virtual CDROM0 1.00.
  • Page 69 Figure 114 Selecting a boot option For H3C UniServer R6900 G3, enter the Front Page, in the Boot Manager, select a boot option, and then press Enter. This example selects EFI USB Device(AMI Virtual CDROM0. Figure 115 Selecting a boot option...
  • Page 70 Figure 116 Grub Select the keymap to use and then click OK. This example selects [qwerty] us. Figure 117 Selecting the keymap Confirm installation and then click OK.
  • Page 71 Figure 118 Confirming installation Read the End User License Agreement, select Accept EULA, and then press Enter. Figure 119 End User License Agreement Select a disk to install the OS if you have multiple disks, and then click OK.
  • Page 72 Figure 120 Selecting a disk Select Local media as the installation source, and then click OK. Figure 121 Selecting an installation source Select Skip verification, and then click OK. If you encounter any issues during installation, verify the installation source as a best practice.
  • Page 73 Figure 122 Verifying the installation source Set and confirm the root password, and then click OK. XenCenter will use this password to connect to the XenServer host. Figure 123 Setting the root password 10. Select a network interface for connecting to the management server, and then click OK.
  • Page 74 Figure 124 Selecting a network interface 11. Select a method for specifying an IP address for the management interface, and then click OK. Automatic configuration (DHCP)—Obtains an IP address through DHCP. Static configuration—Manually specify an IP address. If you select this option, you must also specify an IP address, mask, and gateway address.
  • Page 75 Figure 126 Configuring DNS 13. Set the time zone by selecting the geographical area and then the city, and then click OK. Figure 127 Setting the time zone 14. Select a method for setting the system time, and then click OK. Using NTP—You must specify a minimum of one NTP server and specify the IP address of the NTP server.
  • Page 76 Figure 128 Selecting the method for setting the system time Figure 129 Configuring the NTP server 15. Select Install XenServer, and then press Enter to start installation.
  • Page 77 Figure 130 Starting installation 16. Wait for the system to complete installation. Figure 131 OS installation in progress 17. Click OK after installation is completed to restart the server.
  • Page 78 Figure 132 Installation completed 18. Select XenServer, and then press Enter. Figure 133 GNU GRUB You have entered the Citrix XenServer GUI when the following page appears.

  • Page 79: Installing A Ubuntu Os

    Figure 134 Citrix 7.1 GUI NOTE: If a storage controller has been installed on the server, install the driver for the storage controller as shown in Figure 166 as a best practice. Installing a Ubuntu OS The installation procedures are similar for different Ubuntu OS versions. This example installs Ubuntu 14.10.
  • Page 80 Figure 135 Selecting a boot option Select Install Ubuntu Server, and then press Enter. Figure 136 Installing Ubuntu server Select a language, and then press Enter.
  • Page 81 Figure 137 Selecting a language Select your location, and then press Enter. Figure 138 Selecting a location Select whether to detect keyboard layout. This example skips keyboard layout detection.
  • Page 82 Figure 139 Selecting whether to detect keyboard layout Select the country of origin for the keyboard, and then press Enter. Figure 140 Selecting the country of origin for the keyboard Select the keyboard layout, and then press Enter.
  • Page 83 Figure 141 Selecting the keyboard layout Select a connected network interface as the primary network interface, and then press Enter. Figure 142 Configuring the network 10. Press Enter when the following page appears. Figure 143 Network autoconfiguration failed 11. Select a network configuration method, and then press Enter. This example selects not to configure the network at this time.
  • Page 84 Figure 144 Selecting a network configuration method 12. Enter the host name and set the user and password in turn by following the configuration wizard, as shown in the following figures. Figure 145 Entering the host name Figure 146 Entering the real name of the user Figure 147 Entering the username for your account...
  • Page 85 Figure 148 Setting the password 13. Configure whether to encrypt your home directory. This example selects to not encrypt the home directory. Figure 149 Setting home directory encryption 14. Select the time zone, and then press Enter. Figure 150 Selecting the time zone 15.
  • Page 86 Figure 151 Selecting a partitioning method 16. Check the partitions, and then select Yes. The system will automatically divide the disk into three partitions. Figure 152 Checking the partitions 17. Wait for the system to complete installation. Figure 153 Installing the system 18.
  • Page 87 Figure 154 Selecting a method for applying updates 19. Choose software to install. This example selects OpenSSH server and Virtual Machine host. If you select Manual package selection, you must manually select the package to install. a. Press ↑ or ↓ to select target software. b.

  • Page 88: Installing A Cas Os

    Figure 157 Entering the username and password Figure 158 Logging in to the Ubuntu OS Installing a CAS OS For more information about how to install a CAS OS, see the installation guide for H3C CAS.

  • Page 89: Installing A Network Adapter

    Installing a network adapter Overview H3C servers support the following network adapter installation methods: • Installing a Windows • Installing a Linux Installing a Windows network adapter This section updates the driver of the CNA-10GE-2P-560F-B2 network adapter on a Windows Server 2012 R2 OS.
  • Page 90 Figure 160 Device Manager Figure 161 Displaying driver version...

  • Page 91: Installing The Network Adapter

    Installing the network adapter Download the driver from the H3C website. Double-click the driver, and then click Install. If the file is an .inf file, select Update driver, select Local search in the dialog box that opens, and then select the .inf file.

  • Page 92: Installing A Linux Network Adapter

    Figure 164 Displaying driver version Installing a Linux network adapter For Red Hat and SUSE OSs with a GUI, you can double-click the .rpm file to install a Linux network adapter. This section installs a Linux network adapter from the CLI. Checking network adapter version Methods for checking network adapter versions vary by OS type.

  • Page 93: Installing The Network Adapter

    Installing the network adapter Execute the su root command to obtain the root access right. If the driver is saved in a USB device, use the mount device dir command to mount the USB device, mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt for example. Execute the cd dir command to enter the directory where the driver resides, cd /mnt/dir for example.

  • Page 94: Troubleshooting

    Troubleshooting SUSE11SP4 installation failure in Legacy or UEFI mode Symptom In Legacy or UEFI mode, an error occurred during initrd creation if Intel NVMe SSD is used. Figure 168 Failure to install SUSE11SP4 Solution To resolve the issue: Mount the image through a USB disk or create an ISO file and then mount the image through KVM by following these steps: a.

  • Page 95: No Boot Options Can Be Found

    #rpm -Uvh mkinitrd-2.4.2-105.1.x86_64.rpm Press Ctrl+Alt+F7 to continue installation. If the issue persists, contact H3C Support. No boot options can be found Symptom No boot options can be found when the following conditions are met: • The BIOS boot mode is Legacy.

  • Page 96: Failure To Install An Os By Using Pxe

    Burn the driver of the mLOM adapter into the image of the system, and then use this image for PXE installation. If the issue persists, contact H3C Support. Failure to install a VMware OS when only mLOM adapters are installed Symptom A VMware OS failed to be installed when only mLOM adapters are installed.

  • Page 97: Installation

    Execute the lspci -vvs b3:00.0 command to verify that the drive in use is smartpqi. Figure 170 Verifying the drive in use f. If the issue persists, contact H3C Support. • To resolve the issue for an SUSE OS, update the smartpqi and aacraid drivers and then reboot the server.

  • Page 98: Prompts Installation Failure

    Install the smartpqi driver. Reboot the server and verify that the smartpqi driver has been installed successfully. If the issue persists, contact H3C Support. Bluescreen or kernel error occurred when BIOS NUMA is enabled and IMC0 and IMC1 for CPU 1...

  • Page 99: An Error Occurred On An Nvme Drive And The Drive Went Offline After A Managed Hot Plug

    Do not disable all internal model controls (IMCs) for CPU 1 or CPU 2 if NUMA is enabled, or disable NUMA if you want to disable all IMCs for CPU 1 or CPU 2. If the issue persists, contact H3C Support. An error occurred on an NVMe drive and the drive...

  • Page 100: A Blue Screen Occurred When The Network Adapter-10Ge-2P-520F-B2-1 Driver Was Being Installed

    This method fixes the payload of a PCIe device at system start and ignores the payload initialized by BIOS. This might influence bandwidth usage. Figure 174 Adding a parameter to the GRUB configuration file If the issue persists, contact H3C Support. A blue screen occurred when the network adapter-10GE-2P-520F-B2-1 driver was being...

  • Page 101: Some Nvme Drives Might Fail To Be Identified When Multiple Nvme Drives Are Installed After Os Installation

    Solution To resolve the issue: Install a next NVMe drive a minimum of 20 seconds after one NVMe drive is installed. If the issue persists, contact H3C Support. Failed to install CASE0306 on an NVMe SSD drive Do not install CAS E0306 on an NVMe SSD drive.

  • Page 102: Are Installed On The Windows System

    Windows Server 2012 R2 Symptom Bluescreen occurred during the installation of the IB-MCX354A-FCBT-56/40Gb-2P network adapter driver on Windows Server 2012 R2 on a UniServer R6900 G3, as shown in the following figure. Figure 175 Bluescreen during network adapter driver installation Solution To resolve the issue: •...
  • Page 103 Figure 176 Installing Mellanox network adapter driver b. If the issue persists, contact H3C Support. • Method 2: a. Access BIOS Setup > Advanced > Socket Configuration > Processor Configuration, set Hyper-Threading[All] to Disabled, install the network adapter driver provided by Mellanox, and then enable hyper threading.

  • Page 104: Cas E0306 Os Installation Failure

    Change the transmission rate of the peer interface to 100 Mbps because the shared network interface supports autonegotiation. If the issue persists, contact H3C Support. CAS E0306 OS installation failure CAS E0306 OS installation is not supported because this version does not contain the Smartpqi...
  • Page 105 Acronyms Table 2 Acronyms Acronym Full name H3C Device Management Keyboard Video Mouse Preboot Execute Environment RAID Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks Storage Area Network UEFI Unified Extensible Firmware Interface...

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