HP Insight Control Server Provisioning 7.2 Update 2 Installation Guide

6 Setting up the Media Server
Follow instructions in this section to use the Insight Control server provisioning Media Server setup
utility to create your Media Server. Instructions for manually setting up a Media Server are available
in the HP Insight Control Server Provisioning Administrator Guide, found at http://www.hp.com/
go/insightcontrol/docs.
Introduction to the Media Server
The Media Server is separate from the Insight Control Server provisioning virtual appliance and
holds the deployment software.
OS Build Plans use the software on the Media Server to provision managed servers. Software
(media) on the Media Server can include vendor-supplied OS distribution files, HP-supplied OS
distribution files, captured images, and firmware and driver updates such as HP Service Packs for
ProLiant (HP SPP).
Because Insight Control server provisioning is hosted on a virtual appliance optimized to run the
IC server provisioning application, there is not enough storage on the appliance to host deployment
software. For this reason, a separate Media Server is required in order to provision servers.
The Media Server has the following requirements:
• Windows OS distributions must be hosted on a Windows file share.
• Linux and ESXi OS Build Plans require their OS distribution files to be served by HTTP.
• Windows image capture and installation is done with Windows ImageX, which requires a
Windows file share for storing captured images.
When using the Insight Control server provisioning Media Server setup utility to set up your Media
Server, the Media Server will be hosted on a Windows system.
NOTE: To set up your Media Server, it is recommended to first download or have media for the
actual OS installations. This includes the distribution files from the respective OS supplier, VMware
ESXi from HP, and the latest SPP from HP.
NOTE: It is possible to configure a Media Server on a Linux machine, but you cannot use the
Insight Control server provisioning Media Server setup utility to do it. Instructions for setting up a
Media Server manually are available in the HP Insight Control Server Provisioning Administrator
Guide, found at http://www.hp.com/go/insightcontrol/docs.
NOTE: Because the Media Server is separate from the Insight Control server provisioning
appliance, its contents are not included when you run an appliance backup. It is the customer’s
responsibility to ensure the Media Server’s contents are backed up.
Introduction to the Insight Control server provisioning Media Server setup
utility
The Insight Control server provisioning Media Server setup utility is provided by HP to help you
configure an existing Windows system as a host for your Media Server. The setup tool configures
a Windows file share, copies OS distribution files to the correct location on the Media Server, and
sets up HTTP file serving. Use it to set up your Media Server for the first time, or to update an
existing Windows Media Server with newly available software.
The Insight Control server provisioning Media Server setup utility creates a folder layout on the
Windows system to match the expectations of the HP-supplied OS Build Plans. By using the setup
utility, all OS Build Plans supplied by HP will run out-of-the-box with no modifications required.
Introduction to the Media Server 37