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Co., Ltd. reserves the right of revising this manual momentarily. Any alteration about the content of this manual will not be informed. Please contact Inspur Group Co., Ltd. if you have any questions or ad- vice about this manual. Inspur Group Co., Ltd.
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5. Please read carefully our user manual before you use Inspur Yingxin server. 6. We must call your attention that in the application process you should pay attention to doing necessary backup of your fi...
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9. The copyright of the marks and names of all the software and hardware prod- ucts involved in this manual is reserved by the relevant companies. 10. In the statements above, “us” indicates Inspur Group Co., Ltd; Inspur Group Co., Ltd. holds the right of fi nal explanation about the above statements.
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In this chapter, solutions of some common problems are introduced. We suggest you read this manual seriously before you use this server for sake of the unnecessary faults in your operation. Address:No.1036 Langchao Road, Jinan City, China ( Inspur Group Co., Ltd.) Postcode:250101...
4.2 Control Key Application ................20 4.3 SATA HostRaid Confi guration ..............20 Chapter Five Operating System Installation ............24 5.1 Application Instructions for Inspur Driver U Disk ........25 5.2 Manually Install Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition .....29 5.3 Manually Install Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition .....34 5.4 Manually Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 ........38...
Inspur; only maintenance technicians trained by Inspur have the right to disassemble the cover of the host, dismount and replace the internal components.
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Chapter One Security Information Warning 6: To avoid short circuit of internal components and fi re or electric shock hazards, please do not fi ll any object into the open pores of the system. Warning 7: Please place the system far away from the cooling plate and at the place with heat sources, and be sure not to block the air vents.
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- Close the cover of the host, re-connect the system to the power socket, and then start the equipment. - In case of operation failure or abnormal situation, please contact Inspur and get technical support. 3. Pay attention to the position of the system cables and power cables, wire them in places not to be stepped on or knocked down and ensure not to place other objectives on the cables.
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7. When dismounting the internal components with the approval of Inspur, please pay attention to the following matters: - Switch off the system power supply and disconnect the cables, including discon- necting any connection of the system.
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Chapter One Security Information to the following matters: - After the installation of cabinet is fi nished, please ensure that the supporting feet have been fi xed to the rack and supported to the ground, and all weight of the rack have been fell onto the ground.
Chapter Two Product Description Chapter Two Product Description 2.1 Server Technical Specifi cation Processor Processor Type Intel Xeon E3-1200 or Intel Core i3-2100 series CPU Processor Count Processor Technology 32nm Processor Interface LGA1155 Sockets Chipset Chipset Type Intel® C202 chipset Memory Memory Type DDR3 1066MHz/1333MHz ECC Unbuffered memory...
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Standard confi guration supports 5 pieces of SATA hard disks or up to Hard Disk Number 8 pieces of SATA/SAS hard disks through expansion accessories External Storage Drive Optional Inspur driver U disk, used to load hard disk controller Inspur Drive U Disk driver when installing the operating system manually CD-ROM (optional)
Chapter Two Product Description 2.2 Front Panel View Front Panel View Number Name Function and Introduction Power button Server on/off button Reset button System reset button Power indicator Always on when server works Display hard disk working condition, blinks Hard disk LED indicator when hard disk is reading and writing Always on: network is connected Network card 1st indicator light...
Chapter Two Product Description 2.3 Back Panel Introduction 2.3.1 Back Panel View Back Panel View Number Name Function and Introduction Power interface Connect the host power line Power fan Power cooling fan I/O interface Input/output interface Chassis fan System cooling fan Expansion devices connecting PCI and PCI and PCI-E expansion slot PCI-E interfaces...
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Chapter Two Product Description Number Name Function and specifi cation PS/2 mouse interface For connecting PS/2 mouse PS/2 keyboard interface For connecting PS/2 keyboard Rear USB interfaces 1, 2 For connecting USB interface devices Serial interface For connecting serial interface devices VGA interface For connecting display devices Integrated network card interface 1 Onboard gigabit network card interface 1...
Chapter Three System Setup Chapter Three System Setup In this chapter, the jumper of motherboard and BIOS function setup of this server are introduced. Only operator or administrator with qualifi cation of system maintenance can implement these operations described in this part. 3.1 Motherboard BIOS Setup BIOS is a basic input and output system.
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Chapter Three System Setup 3.1.2 BIOS System Menu Introduction Next the following main function menus of BIOS are introduced. Menu Name Menu Function Confi guring the basic system settings, such as system time, system Main date, super user and user password setup; displaying version of BIOS, CPU, and memory information etc Event Logs Confi...
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Chapter Three System Setup 1. Main menu Entering BIOS setup utility, you can see Main menu displayed fi rstly. Use the ar- row key to select the option, and press [Enter] to select submenu. ● BIOS Information Display BIOS’s version and modifi cation time. ●...
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Chapter Three System Setup options. * Erase Event Log This option is used to set whether clear event logs or not, there are [No], [Yes, Next reset] and [Yes, Every reset] three options. * When Log is Full This option is used to set the approach when event logs are full, there are [Do nothing] and [Erase Immediately] two options.
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Chapter Three System Setup boot, then the setup can take effect. *Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology This item is used to set whether allow the operating system to dynamically regu- late CPU voltage and frequency in order to reduce system consumption and tempera- ture, including [Enabled] and [Disabled] two items.
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Chapter Three System Setup * Azalia HD Audio Turn on or off the audio controller including [Enabled] and [Disabled] two items. * INTEL W82574L OpROM1/2 Whether support the boot function confi guration from the onboard network card 1/2 including [Disabled], [PXE], [iSCSI] three items. ●...
3.2.1 How to Open the Chassis Side Panel If the user need alter motherboard jumpers, please fi rst obtain the authorization of Inspur Group Co., Ltd. Then open the chassis upper panel according to the following steps: 1. Power off the system (disconnect AC power cable).
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Chapter Three System Setup 3.2.2 Introduction of Motherboard Jumper Function Motherboard common use jumper location picture Jumper name Function description Jumper function Short-cutting pin1 and 2 to enable onboard Enable/disable onboard network controller 1 (default). Short-cutting LAN_SW1 network controller 1 pin2 and 3 to disable onboard network controller Short-cutting pin1 and 2 to enable onboard...
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Chapter Three System Setup Notes: 1. When clearing the CMOS, the system must be off and the power should be dis- connected. After short-cutting the CLRTC1 jumper’s Pin2-3, it needs to keep 5 seconds and then use jumper cap to short-cut the Pin1 and Pin2 of CLRTC1 jumper (default confi...
Chapter Four SATA HostRaid Setup Chapter Four SATA HostRaid Setup This chapter mainly introduces the confi guration of onboard Intel SATA controller HostRaid and its application method. If the server you purchased does not use onboard SATA HostRaid, you can not refer to this chapter. If it does use onboard SATA HostRaid, please enter BIOS and set Advanced→SATA Confi...
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Chapter Four SATA HostRaid Setup The executable menus of the confi guration interface of SATA HostRaid are the following fi ve: ● Create RAID Volume Create RAID Volume ● Delete RAID Volume Delete existing RAID Volume ● Reset Disks to Non-RAID Reset hard disks of RAID volume to Non-RAID ●...
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Chapter Four SATA HostRaid Setup Recovery: it allows two hard disks to create this RAID volume. RAID10: it allows four hard disks to create this RAID volume. RAID5 (Parity): it allows three and more than three hard disks to create this RAID volume.
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Chapter Four SATA HostRaid Setup The system will display all hard disks in RAID volume, so please select hard disks to be reset by [Space] based on actual demand, and then reset hard disk by press- ing [Enter]. The system will again warn whether there is a need to reset the hard disk, and enter Y or N according to the prompt.
During manual setup of the operating system, some operating system may need the fl oppy driver or Inspur driver U disk to load the drive of hard disk controller. Re- fer to the readme.pdf fi le under the root directory in Inspur driver CD for the making method of the driver fl...
U disk to load the drive of hard disk controller (at present, the operating sys- tems that use Inspur driver U disk to load the hard disk controller are Windows XP and above versions, Red Hat Linux 4.5 and above versions, Suse Linux 9.0 SP2 and above versions).
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Windows system shall be identifi ed as A:, and only by this can the normal making of subsequent driver be guaranteed. 2. Put the driver CD (Inspur driver CD and RAID card driver CD) into the CD drive, and the driver making software will operate automatically. If the system forbids the automatic operation of CD, please enter CD directory and operate documents of dolphin.bat (Inspur driver CD) in CD or setup.exe (RAID card driver CD) in CD directory.
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Chapter Five Operating System Installation Input the navigation No. in the text box (the navigation No. is shown in CD box), click <OK> button, and it can log in the main interface of driver making software. Click <Cancel> button and exit the logging. (2) After inputting the navigation No.
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Inspur driver U disk, entering the interface of disk parti- tion, the Inspur driver U disk will occupy a disk letter. If the disk is not divided, U disk will occupy disk C:, and if the disk has other partitions, U disk will occupy other disk letter (please distinguish according to the actual hard disk partition).
Note: On making the above-mentioned drivers, please make the driver on the fl oppy disk if using USB fl oppy drivers, or make the driver on the Inspur driver U disks if using the Inspur driver U disk.
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Workstation/Server Express Chipset SATA RAID Controller”, and then press [Enter] to load the drive. If Inspur driver U disk is used (Please connect Inspur driver U disk before starting the system): Firstly, ensure that the corresponding drive has been made into the [3.5 Floppy disk (A:)] partition.
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Chapter Five Operating System Installation ◎ To create a new partition, enter its size below and press [Enter]. ◎ To go back to the previous screen without creating the partition, press [ESC]. The minimum size for the new partition is 8 megabytes <MB>. The maximum size for the new partition is XXX megabytes <MB>.
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Chapter Five Operating System Installation personal information you provided. Type your full name and the name of the company or organization. Name: Organization: The user can fi ll in according to his actual situations and then click <Next> to continue the installation. 14.
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Chapter Five Operating System Installation (1) Insert the Inspur driver CD into CD-ROM, input the navigation No. on the driver CD set in the navigation No. verifi cation interface popped up after the running of CD, click <OK> and it will enter the installation interface automatically;...
Note: On making the drivers, please make the driver into the fl oppy disk if using USB fl oppy drivers, or make the driver into the Inspur driver U disks if using the Ins- pur driver U disk.
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(2) When powering up and starting the installation of the operating system, con- nect the Inspur driver U disk to the USB interface on the server. (3) Please select <Load Driver> in the interface of “Where do you want to install Windows?”...
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“Server Manager”, select “Do not show this console at logon” and close the interface. 14. Install Chipset patch (1) Insert Inspur driver CD into CD-ROM, click the blue dolphin icon under the installation or operation procedure item in the automatically playing interface popped...
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CD and restart the system. 15. Install Network card driver (1) Insert Inspur driver CD into CD-ROM, click the blue dolphin icon under the installation or operation procedure item in the automatically playing interface popped out after the disk’s running, and input the navigation No. on the driver CD chassis in the navigation No.
Notes: On making the above-mentioned drivers, please make the driver into the fl oppy disk if using USB fl oppy drivers, or make the driver into the Inspur driver U disk if using the Inspur driver U disk.
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Chapter Five Operating System Installation gins to load fi le and continues to install. 3. Installation program displays: CD Found Select <Skip> to evade the disk detection and press [Enter] to continue the instal- lation. 4. The installation program goes to “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5” interface, so click <Next>...
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Chapter Five Operating System Installation 10. The installation program enters Boot Loader setting interface, so set as needed and click <Next> to continue the installation. 11. The installation program enters “Please click into the map to choose a region” interface, select “Asia/shanghai” and click <Next> to continue the installation. 12.
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<Finish> to fi n- ish the installation. 28. Log in system. 5.4.3 Install Network Card Driver 1. Insert Inspur driver CD into CD-ROM, click Terminal menu in Applications→ Accessories, and input the following in the windows: #cd / #mount /dev/cdrom /mnt...
Chapter Five Operating System Installation Chapter Six Common Problems and Trouble-shooting This chapter focuses on the common problems and Trouble-shooting of the server. If you are not sure about the cause of a failure and its removal method, please contact our customer service center for solution.
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● If you are using the system CD to boot and install the operating system directly, the hard disk drive is generally added through the fl oppy driver or Inspur driver U disk. When using USB fl oppy driver to add the drive, please set the BIOS fi rst and close the onboard fl...
Chapter Five Operating System Installation CD) and whether there is fault in the fl oppy disk or Inspur driver U disk. 6.2.4 Instruction of Onboard SATA Controller If it is confi gured onboard SATA HostRaid, it only supports windows system of above Windows XP versions and connects 6 SATA devices at most.
3. After having collected the basic information, please feedback the detailed alarm information to Inspur technical support personnel in a timely manner. We will make further analysis and judgment and help you solve the problem as soon as possible.
fi cial website of Inspur: http://www.inspur.com/support/Channel_Home/support_sv.asp 6.5 Technical Support Information If you have any doubt or unsolved problems in using Inspur server, please take the following measures: 1. If you have doubt in product confi guration and specifi cation details, please con- tact your supplier.
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