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Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant 2.5 User's Guide for x86 Servers |
Overview of the Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant User's Guide
Getting Started With Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant
What is Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant?
Supported Provisioning Tasks List
Launching the Application and Performing Provisioning Tasks
Local and Remote Media Launch Options for Sun Fire and Sun Blade Servers
How to Perform Provisioning Tasks
How to Install Windows Using Local or Remote Media
How to Install Linux Using Local or Remote Media
Updating System and Component Firmware
How to Update the System BIOS and Oracle ILOM Firmware
How to Update Expander Firmware
Recovering a Service Processor
How to Recover a Service Processor
Configuring Service Processor Settings
How to Configure Service Processor Identification Information Settings
How to Configure Network Information Settings
How to Manage Oracle ILOM User Accounts
Configuring BIOS Boot Device Settings
How to Set the Boot Device Order
How to Set the Boot Device for the Next Boot
Setting Up PXE-Based Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant
How to Set Up the PXE Infrastructure
Preparing the Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant PXE Image Files
Launching an Attended PXE-Based Session
Attended PXE-Based Session Overview
How to Create the Image for a PXE-Based Session
How to Launch an Attended Installation From a PXE Server
Performing Unattended PXE-Based Provisioning Tasks
Unattended PXE-Based Provisioning Tasks Requirements
Creating a State File for Unattended Installation
How to Prepare for an Unattended Installation of Linux
How to Prepare for an Unattended Installation of Windows Server
How to Prepare for an Unattended Firmware Update
How to Create the Application Image and Prepare for a PXE-Based Launch
How to Launch an Unattended Session From a PXE-Based Server
Observing Unattended PXE-Based Provisioning Tasks
Establishing a Viewing Connection Using a Virtual Console or Secure Shell (SSH) Connection
How to Set Up Root and VNC Passwords
How to Establish a Connection Using a VNC Viewer
How to Establish a Connection Using a Serial Console
Troubleshooting Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant
No Driver Found Message Appears During Oracle VM 2.2.1 Server Installation
Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant Can Go Into a Loop at Last OS Install Screen
Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant Error Messages
How to View the Application Log File
How to Debug a PXE Image That Does Not Boot
Launching Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant Using a USB Flash Drive
How to Get the Syslinux and Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant Software
Creating an Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant USB Flash Drive
How to Boot the USB Flash Drive and Launch Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant
How to Install Service Tags in Linux
The Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant application only supports RAID configuration on systems with LSI SAS-2 controllers (926x, 9280). If your system does not include one of these controllers, the RAID configuration task is not available.
Note - If you want to include your boot drive as part of a RAID configuration, you must do so before you install an OS on the boot drive.
The Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant application can be used to configure RAID 0 and RAID 1 (mirroring) on available SAS or SATA disk drives only. You cannot mix SAS and SATA drives in a RAID volume. If you plan on using SAS and SATA disks, they must reside in separate RAID volumes.
Up to 32 RAID volumes are supported. Hot spares cannot be configured using the Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant application. To configure hot spares, use the disk controller's BIOS configuration tool which is accessible using a keyboard keystroke combination entered during system boot.
The types of RAID volumes that can be configured using the Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant application depends on the controller type you are using.
For LSI MegaRAID (926x, 9280) SAS-2 controllers you can configure:
RAID 0: A striped volume that uses one or more physical disks. Data is striped across all available disks that make up the volume. RAID 0 provides no fault tolerance, but it provides increased data throughput especially for large files.
RAID 1: A volume that mirrors data on a physical disk. Each volume must have an even number of physical disks (multiple of 2).
See Also: How to Create a RAID Volume