1. Platform Preparation and Installation Guide
  2. Netra Server X5-2 Platform Preparation

2 Netra Server X5-2 Platform Preparation

Oracle Communications produces a variety of software products that run on the Netra X5-2 for Communications platform, including Oracle session delivery applications.

Use your Hardware documentation to install and establish system management by way of ILOM. Then use the steps below to prepare the Netra X5-2 for session delivery software installation.

Note:

The Connect ILOM to the Netra X5 for Communications also displays ILOM cabling.
  1. Confirm applicable firmware on the server.
    • To check the firmware versions installed in the server, go to the Oracle Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) web interface, and navigate to System Information, Firmware.
    • Review your session delivery product Release Notes for qualified software and firmware versions.
  2. Upgrade or downgrade the firmware on the server as necessary. Go to https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37444_01/index.html for ILOM upgrade instructions.
  3. Configure the BIOS settings. (Settings navigation may differ based on the BIOS version.)
    1. Observe the boot procedure and use the documented key sequence to interrupt the boot and display the BIOS configuration dialogs. For example, pressing the F2 key is a common way to enter BIOS configuration from a terminal application that supports function keys.
    2. Navigate to the Boot menu and, depending on the software distribution you are using, set the USB or CD as the first device followed by the disk controller.
    3. Disable Hyper-Threading.
    4. Disable CPU power limit.
    5. Disable C6 Reporting.
    6. Disable the UEFI Stack.
    7. Change Energy Performance to Performance. (For example, set "ENERY_PERF_BIAS_CFG" mode to "PERF".)
    8. To decrease boot up time, Oracle recommends disabling Intel PXE Boot Agent for both onboard and NIC ethernet ports. To disable the Boot Agent for the onboard ethernet ports, navigate to the OpROM option for NET0, NET1, NET2, and NET3 interfaces (for example, IO, Internal Devices) and set it to disabled.
    9. To disable Boot Agent for NIC ethernet ports, note the blue PCIe slot number label at the back of the Netra server where the NICs are installed, then disable the OpROM option for those slots. (Note that you may be able to identify slot number through the ILOM System Information, PCI Devices menu.)
    10. Reboot the server.
  4. Initialize the HDD.
    1. Open the ILOM remote system console to observe the system's boot cycle, and interrupt the boot cycle to enter the LSI MegaRAID status display. For example, pressing the Ctrl-R key is a common way to enter LSI MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility.
    2. Navigate the utility to establish the elements of your virtual drive, typically consisting of a New Configuration with two entire HDDs.
    3. Access the menu from which you create a virtual drive.
    4. Set the RAID level to RAID-1.
    5. Select all of the drives that you want.
    6. From the Virtual Drive Management dialog, select the new drive and initialize it. For example, pressing F2 and selecting Fast Init from the command menu is a common way to execute initialization.
    7. After initialization is complete, Escape from the LSI MegaRAID Configuration Utility and reboot the system.
  5. Perform a cold shutdown by removing all system power.