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HP Integrity Essentials Foundation Pack for Linux User's Guide: HP Smart Setup:HP Support Pack

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HP Part Number: 5992-3193

Edition: 2.4

Published: September 2008

© Copyright 2007–2008 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.

Acknowledgments

Table of Contents

About This Document

Additional Documentation
Intended Audience
Typographic Conventions
Publishing History
Related Information
HP Encourages Your Comments

1 Planning the Installation

Support Information

Supported Linux OS Distributions
Supported Hardware
Support Exceptions
Ensure Support for Linux on HP Integrity Servers

Choosing an Installation Scenario

Choosing an Installation Environment

Using a Serial Console
Using a VGA Console
Using the HP Smart Setup EBSU Utility

Installation Process

2 Preparing for Installation

Obtaining the Latest HP Integrity Essentials Foundation Pack for Linux

Ensuring Platform Compatibility

Verifying Hardware Compatibility
Backing Up Existing Data

Setting Up a Console

Setting Up a Serial Console
Setting Up a VGA Console

Preparing the Server Hardware

Setting Up the Boot Drive
Accessing the Removable Media Devices Using EFI

3 Installing the OS and Updating the Server

Using HP Smart Setup to Install the OS

Using the Linux Media to Install the OS

Updating the Server

Installing Updates from the Web
Registering for HP Support Notifications

Installing the Fibre Channel HBA Drivers for Linux

Installing the MPT Fusion HBA Drivers for Linux

4 EFI and HP Smart Setup Media Utilities

Using the Option ROM Configuration for Arrays Utility

EFI Boot Manager
EFI Shell

HP Smart Setup Utilities

Accessing HP Smart Setup Utilities

5 Installing and Using the HP Support Pack

Software Provided in the HP Support Pack

HP Insight Management Agents
HP nPartition Commands
HP Partition Manager
HP WBEM Providers for Linux
HP System Management Homepage
HP Management Base for Integrity Servers
OpenPegasus
HP Array Configuration Utility – Command Line Interface
HP Utilization Provider Including WBEM
HP SmartSetup Scripting Toolkit
HP SAS Integrated Raid (IR) Configuration Utility
HP Integrity Virtual Machines WBEM Provider

Product Installation Dependencies

Removing OpenWBEM
Installing BEA JRockit 5.0 JDK for the Linux IA64 Platform

Installing Software from the HP Support Pack

Before Running the Installer
Running the Installer

A Configuring and Using a Serial Console

Configuring a Serial Console
Using a Serial Console

B HP Support Pack Dependencies

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10

C Known Issues

Configuring Storage Adapters
Partitioning Fibre Channel HBA Adapters
Flashing U320 I/O Adapter
OpenIPMI Driver and HPIMA Fails Due to Baseboard Management Controller Initialization Failure
Installing the MPT Fusion HBA Driver on RHEL 5U2 using a Xen Kernel Hangs the Server
HP System Management Homepage Appears to Hang
HP SAS Integrated Raid (IR) Configuration Utility May Cause Kernel Panics on RHEL4U7
Flashing HP PCIe 2-port 1000Base-T adapter (AD337A) Adapters

D Supported Products Matrix

List of Figures

1-1 Serial Console Configuration
1-2 VGA Console Configuration
1-3 Installation Overview
3-1 EFI Boot Manager Menu
3-2 HP Smart Setup EBSU Main Menu
3-3 HP Smart Setup EBSU Main Menu with System Setting Option
3-4 Configure the ACPI Setting
3-5 Configure the MPS Setting
3-6 Configure Storage Adapters Option
3-7 Configuring Storage Adapters
3-8 Select Smart Setup
3-9 Page 1: Update Firmware
3-10 Page 1: Update Firmware, Cell-Based Servers
3-11 Page 2: Disk Partitioning
3-12 Page 3: Installation Considerations
3-13 Inserting the Linux Installer Media
4-1 EFI Boot Manager

List of Tables

1-1 Supported Minimum OS Distributions by HP Integrity Server
2-1 Graphics Support on Server Models
D-1 Supported Products Matrix

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