HP Insight Control Server Provisioning 7.3 Update 1 Administrator Guide

b. PCA ALOM 10GbE 2-port Intel 82599
2. For HP ProLiant BL servers only:
a. HP Ethernet 10Gb 2-port 560FLR SFP+ Adapter and
b. PCA Mezz 10GbE 2-port Intel 82599
3. Deployment of RHEL 5.9, SLES 11.2, or ESXi 5.x is not supported with:
a. Qlogic SN1000Q 16Gb 1P FC HBA
4. Deployment of Windows and ESXi are not supported with:
a. HP InfiniBand FDR/EN 10/40Gb Dual Port 544FLR-QSFP Adapter
b. HP InfiniBand FDR/EN 10/40Gb Dual Port 544M Adapter
5. To get your Build Plan to work for the following, create a custom attribute named
kernel_arguments, and set the value of the custom attribute for RHEL to blacklist=ahci and for
SLES to brokenmodules=ahci:
a. HP Smart Array B120i SATA
b. HP Smart Array B120i SATA Raid Controller
c. HP Smart Array B320i SATA
RHEL5.x OS Build Plan special configuration for SAN multipath
RHEL 5.x requires a special kernel argument, mpath, to correctly configure SAN multipath devices.
Make sure to add the following custom attribute: kernel_arguments=mpath
RHEL 6.3 OS deployments with iSCSI or FCoE require special configuration
of kickstart file
Target servers with iSCSI or FCoE require advanced configuration of the kickstart file. Otherwise,
the automatic disk partitioning (Autopart) in the default kickstart file creates an error when installing
to these systems.
Create a custom kickstart file with the required settings. Autopart must be commented out. See the
example partitioning instructions below.
part /boot --fstype=ext4 --size=500
part pv.01 --grow --size=1
volgroup vg_01 --pesize=4096 pv.01
logvol / --fstype=ext4 --name=lv_root --vgname=vg_01 --grow --size=1024
logvol swap --name=lv_swap --vgname=vg_01 --grow --size=1024
--maxsize=20480
Special configuration for servers with B120i and B320i controllers
The B120i and B320i controllers require a proprietary HP driver to provide full RAID functionality.
The ahci driver provided in the distros can interfere with the proper loading of the proprietary
driver.
To get your Build Plan to work, create a custom attribute named kernel_arguments, and set the
value of that custom attribute as follows:
For RHEL set to blacklist=ahci
For SLES set to brokenmodules=ahci
These parameters should only be used on servers with B120i and B320i controllers.
28 Special OS and hardware considerations