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Sun Fire X4800 Server Installation Guide for Oracle VM Sun Fire X4800 Server Documentation |
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Introduction to Oracle VM Installation
Preliminary Tasks Before Installing an OS
How to Erase Your Boot Hard Disk
How to Obtain Oracle VM Software
How to Install Oracle VM Server
Before attempting to install the operating system, you must create a virtual disk on your server to make available space accessible for the image download. The download erases the contents of the disk.
Virtual disks can be created from the LSI firmware for downloading the operating system. The LSI firmware can only be reached during boot-up of the server. Before Windows is launched and when the LSI banner is shown, you can enter the Control-H key combination to access the LSI interface.
Note - Virtual disks can also be created from the MegaRAID software (which is installed through the supplemental drivers on the Tools and Drivers DVD), but should not be used for installing the operating system.
Note - The Relative option enables the mouse to move from window to window while you are in Remote Console. At the end of this procedure, you are asked to change this mouse setting to Absolute.
This launches the ILOM 3.0 remote console window.
The MegaRaid BIOS Config Utility Virtual Configuration screen opens.
Automatic Configuration creates a single virtual drive that includes all the hard drives on your system. More than one drive is configured as a striped set (RAID0) and appears as a single virtual drive of combined storage space. This might not be desirable as there can be multiple points of failure. That is, if one drive fails, then the system does not boot. You must remove all the drives except one. Alternatively, you can use Manual Configuration to create the virtual drive using only one hard drive.
You can now view Drive Group0.
Note - You can undo the drive group selection by clicking the Reclaim button.
For more information about configuring RAID, refer to your server's Disk Management documentation.
This graphic shows a single virtual drive using the Manual Configuration option:
Caution - You must do this step; otherwise, the next step using Control Alt Delete reboots your local machine. |
Next Steps