Table Of Contents - H3C UniServer R6900 G3 Operating System Installation Manual

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
Obtaining a storage controller driver file ················································································· 10
Setting the BIOS boot mode ································································································ 11
Configuring RAID ·············································································································· 13
Procedure ······························································································································ 13
Installing a Windows OS ····································································································· 13
Installing a Red Hat/CentOS 6.x OS ······················································································ 21
Installing a Red Hat/CentOS 7.x OS ······················································································ 33
Installing an SUSE OS ······································································································· 43
Installing a VMware ESXi OS ······························································································· 54
Installing a Citrix OS ·········································································································· 61
Installing a Ubuntu OS ········································································································ 72
Installing a CAS OS ··········································································································· 81
Installing a network adapter ······························································ 82
Overview ································································································································ 82
Installing a Windows network adapter ··························································································· 82
Checking network adapter version ························································································ 82
Installing the network adapter ······························································································ 84
Installing a Linux network adapter ································································································ 85
Checking network adapter version ························································································ 85
Installing the network adapter ······························································································ 86
Troubleshooting ············································································· 87
SUSE11SP4 installation failure in Legacy or UEFI mode ·································································· 87
No boot options can be found ····································································································· 88
Failure to enter SUSE OS in Legacy mode ···················································································· 88
An error occurred during SLES12 OS installation ············································································ 88
Failure to install an OS by using PXE ··························································································· 89
Failure to install a VMware OS when only mLOM adapters are installed ·············································· 89
HBA-H460-M1 storage controller drive can be installed successfully only after two installation operations ··· 89
SUSE12SP2 OS installation in Legacy and UEFI modes takes a long time and the webpage is stuck after
installation ······························································································································ 90
Storage controller HBA-H460-M1 FW1.04 can be installed successfully on an RHEL OS but the system
prompts installation failure ········································································································· 91
Bluescreen or kernel error occurred when BIOS NUMA is enabled and IMC0 and IMC1 for CPU 1 or CPU 2 are
disabled ································································································································· 91
An error occurred on an NVMe drive and the drive went offline after a managed hot plug ························ 92
A blue screen occurred when the network adapter-10GE-2P-520F-B2-1 driver was being installed ··········· 93
Some NVMe drives might fail to be identified when multiple NVme drives are installed after OS installation 94
Failed to install CASE0306 on an NVMe SSD drive ········································································· 94
The system cannot be restored after the server is powered down unexpectedly ···································· 94
Bluescreen occurred if chipset drivers are installed before GPU-M60-1 and GPU-M60-1-X display card drivers
are installed on the Windows system ···························································································· 95
Bluescreen occurred during the installation of the IB-MCX354A-FCBT-56/40Gb-2P network adapter driver on
Windows Server 2012 R2 ·········································································································· 95
OS installation takes a long time when the OS image is mounted through an HDM shared network interface97
CAS E0306 OS installation failure ······························································································· 97
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