Chapter 4

Post Installation of Windows Server 2008

After completing the installation of the Windows Server 2008 (SP2 or R2) operating system and rebooting the server, you should review the following post installation tasks and, if necessary, perform the tasks that are applicable to your server.

• Installing Critical Device Drivers and Supplemental Software

• Installing Supplemental Software

• Configuring Support for TPM

• Configuring Intel NIC Teaming

Before You Begin

The procedures in this chapter assume that you have:

• Installed the Microsoft Windows Server operating system

• Obtained a copy of the Tools and Drivers DVD

  If you do not have a copy of the Tools and Drivers DVD, you can download the latest ISO image of the Tools and Drivers DVD from the product download site. For Instructions see, Appendix D, Downloading the ISO Image for the Tools and Drivers DVD.

Installing Critical Device Drivers and Supplemental Software

An installation wizard is provided on the Tools and Drivers DVD to install server-specific device drivers and Supplemental Software. The server-specific device drivers are provided to support optional hardware devices that can be installed on your server.

Install Server-Specific Device Drivers

1. Insert the Tools and Drivers DVD into a local or remote USB DVD drive and do one of the following:

   • If the DVD automatically starts, click Install Drivers and Supplemental Software.

   • If the DVD does not automatically start, navigate to one of the following folders containing the appropriate InstallPack file (for example, InstallPack_1_0_1.exe), and double-click it.

     • <DVD>/Windows/W2K8/Packages

     • <DVD>/Windows/W2K8R2/Packages

   The Server Installation Package dialog appears.

2. In the Install Pack dialog, click Next to accept the default installable items.

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   Note - You should always accept the “default installable items” to ensure that the most recent versions of the drivers are installed.

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   The Install Pack notice dialog appears.

3. In the Install Pack notice dialog, read the message, then click Next.

   The Welcome to the Sun Fire Installation Wizard appears.

4. In the Welcome to the Sun Fire Installation Wizard dialog, click Next.

   The End User License Agreement page appears.

5. In the End User License Agreement page, select I Accept This Agreement, then click Next.

   The platform-specific drivers are installed. A green check mark verifies that each driver was installed successfully.

6. In the Driver Installation Pack dialog, click Finish.

   The System Settings Change dialog appears.

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   Note - If you plan on installing Supplemental Software (highly recommended), do not restart your system at this time. Once the Supplemental Software has been installed, you will be prompted to restart the system.

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7. Perform one of the following:

   • If you accepted the default installable settings in Step 2, click No to proceed to Installing Supplemental Software.

   • If you are not installing the Supplemental Software, click Yes to restart your computer.

Installing Supplemental Software

There are several Supplemental Software components available for your Sun Fire X4170 M2 or X4270 M2 Server. You have two options for installation:

• Typical: Installs all Supplemental Software applicable for your server.

• Custom: Installs only the Supplement Software selected for installation.

Install Pack Optional Supplemental Software  identifies the optional Supplemental Software components available for your server.

Install Pack Optional Supplemental Software 

Available Supplemental Software Components Servers With LSI Integrated RAID Controller Servers With Intel Integrated Disk Controller LSI MegaRAID Storage Manager, click Yes to restart your computer Enables you to configure, monitor, and maintain RAID on the SAS internal RAID host bus adapter. Typical Not applicable IPMItool command-line utility The IMPItool command-line utility reads the sensor data repository (SDR) and displays sensor values, system event log (SEL), and field- replaceable unit (FRU) inventory information; gets and sets LAN configuration parameters; and performs chassis power control operations via the BMC (also called the service processor (SP)). Typical Typical Intel NIC Teaming Enables the network interfaces on a server to be grouped together into a team of physical ports called a virtual interface. Typical Typical

Install the Supplemental Software

1. Do one of the following:

   • If you did not select the Supplemental Software when you ran the procedure Installing Critical Device Drivers and Supplemental Software, refer back to that procedure and run it again, but this time accept the default settings in Step 2 (the default is to install the supplemental software), and select No in Step 7.

   • If you did select Supplemental Software at the Server Installation Package dialog box in Step 2 of Installing Critical Device Drivers and Supplemental Software, and selected No in Step 7, the Install Pack Supplemental Software dialog appears. Proceed to Step 2.

2. In the Install Pack Supplemental Software dialog, click Next to accept the typical settings; or select Custom to choose the options to install (see descriptions of the Supplemental Software in Install Pack Optional Supplemental Software .

   The Component Installation wizard will guide you through the installation of each of the selected Supplemental Software components.

3. After the Supplemental Software has been installed, click Finish.

4. Click Yes at the System Setting Change dialog to restart your system.

   If you ran the Sun Server Installation Package software from the Tools and Drivers DVD, remove the DVD from your system.

Configuring Support for TPM

If you intend to use the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) feature set that is provided in Windows 2008, you must configure the Sun Fire X4170 M2 and X4270 M2 Servers to support this feature. For instructions, see the configuring support for TPM information in the service manual applicable to your server:

• Sun Fire X4170 M2 Server Service Manual (821-0486)

• Sun Fire X4270 M2 Server Service Manual (821-0488)

Configuring Intel NIC Teaming

For more information on setting up NIC teaming for your environment, refer to the Intel Connectivity web page on Advanced Networking Services Teaming at:

http://support.intel.com/support/network/sb/CS-009747.htm

Additionally, you can download the complete set of Intel Network Connections User Guides for your server’s network adapters at:

http://support.intel.com/support/network/sb/cs-009715.htm