Deployment Guide

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Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 2
Authors ................................................................................................................................................................................ 2
Table of contents ................................................................................................................................................................ 3
Acronyms ............................................................................................................................................................................ 4
Executive summary ............................................................................................................................................................. 5
Starting System Setup ........................................................................................................................................................ 7
1 System BIOS ................................................................................................................................................................ 9
1.1 System BIOS—System Information ................................................................................................................. 10
1.2 System BIOS—Memory Settings ..................................................................................................................... 10
1.3 System BIOS—Persistent Memory .................................................................................................................. 14
1.3.1 System BIOS—Intel Persistent Memory .......................................................................................................... 15
1.3.2 System BIOS—Persistent Memory DIMM Configuration ................................................................................. 16
1.3.3 System BIOS—DIMM Information .................................................................................................................... 17
1.3.4 System BIOS—Region Configuration............................................................................................................... 19
1.3.5 System BIOS—Region Information .................................................................................................................. 20
1.3.6 System BIOS—Create Goal Configuration ...................................................................................................... 21
1.3.7 System BIOS—NVDIMM-N Persistent Memory ............................................................................................... 22
1.4 System BIOS—Processor Settings .................................................................................................................. 24
1.5 System BIOS—SATA Settings ......................................................................................................................... 32
1.6 System BIOS—Boot Settings ........................................................................................................................... 33
1.7 System BIOS—Network Settings ..................................................................................................................... 34
1.8 System BIOS—Integrated Devices .................................................................................................................. 35
System BIOS—Serial Communication ............................................................................................................. 40
System BIOS—System Profile Settings ........................................................................................................... 43
1.10.1 Intel Platform System Profile ............................................................................................................................ 48
1.10.2 AMD Platform System Profile ........................................................................................................................... 48
System BIOS—System Security ...................................................................................................................... 49
System BIOS—Redundant OS Control ............................................................................................................ 57
System BIOS—Miscellaneous Settings ........................................................................................................... 58
Conclusion ........................................................................................................................................................................ 59
A Technical support and resources ............................................................................................................................... 60