Table Of Contents; Contents - NEC Express5800 Series Installation Manual

Contents

Documents for This Product .................................................................................................................................. 2
Contents ................................................................................................................................................................ 3
Notations Used in This Document ......................................................................................................................... 5
Notations used in the text .............................................................................................................................. 5
Optical disk drive ........................................................................................................................................... 5
Abbreviations of Operating Systems (Linux) ................................................................................................. 6
POST ........................................................................................................................................................... 6
BMC ........................................................................................................................................................... 6
Trademarks ........................................................................................................................................................... 7
Regulatory Notices ................................................................................................................................................ 8
Warnings and Additions to This Document .......................................................................................................... 12
Latest editions ............................................................................................................................................. 12
Chapter 1 Installing Operating System ............................................................................................................. 13
1. Before Starting Setup...................................................................................................................................... 14
1.1 Supported Linux OS ............................................................................................................................. 14
1.2 Overview of Setup................................................................................................................................ 14
1.3 Precautions on Setup ........................................................................................................................... 14
2. Setting up Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Server ................................................................................................ 15
2.1 Before starting setup with OS standard installer .................................................................................. 15
2.1.1 Preparation for hardware ......................................................................................................... 15
2.1.2 Disabling OS Boot Monitoring Feature .................................................................................... 17
2.1.3 Preparation for software .......................................................................................................... 20
2.2 Setup with OS Standard Installed (Linux Manual Setup) ..................................................................... 21
2.2.1 Setup flow ............................................................................................................................... 21
2.2.2 Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 ................................................................................... 22
2.2.3 Installing Packages ................................................................................................................. 40
2.2.4 Applying Initial Configuration Script ......................................................................................... 41
2.2.5 Updating packages ................................................................................................................. 42
2.2.6 Installing ft Server Control Software ........................................................................................ 43
2.2.7 Before installing NEC ESMPRO Agent.................................................................................... 44
2.2.8 Installing NEC ESMPRO Agent ............................................................................................... 46
2.2.9 Setting required after installing NEC ESMPRO Agent ............................................................. 47
2.3 Duplex LAN Configuration ................................................................................................................... 48
2.3.1 Network Configuration ............................................................................................................. 48
2.3.2 Setting Duplex LAN Configuration ........................................................................................... 49
2.4 Dual Disk Configuration ....................................................................................................................... 51
2.4.1 Disk configuration .................................................................................................................... 51
2.4.2 Duplicating hard disk drives .................................................................................................... 54
2.4.3 Notes on configuring hard disk drive ....................................................................................... 56
2.4.4 Creating Striping Array ............................................................................................................ 56
2.5 Connecting Optional Device (LAN, SAS, FC Card).............................................................................. 59
2.6 Creating Volume .................................................................................................................................. 60
2.7 Installing Bundled Software for the Server ........................................................................................... 64
2.8 Enabling OS Boot Monitoring Feature ................................................................................................. 64
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