4.1.0 HP Polyserve Software Installation Guide (T5392-96066, October 2010)

local Administrators group on the target Matrix Server node to be configured. A
domain user account is recommended to avoid additional authentication prompting
when exporting the configuration to other servers in the matrix.
Before the installation
Before starting the installation, be sure to review the configuration and hardware
requirements specified in Chapter 1. Also note the following.
System drive requirement
Windows 2008 requires that a device have an assigned drive letter or mount path
before it will allow read or write access to a partition. Consequently, Matrix Server
requires that the system drive (typically C:) be on an NTFS filesystem. This is necessary
because Matrix Server creates mount points on the directory C:\Program Files\
Polyserve\MatrixServer\conf\mounts or C:\Program Files\
Hewlett-Packard\Matrix Server\conf\mounts and only NTFS filesystems
support mount points.
Installation procedure
Installation Checklist
Matrix Server must be installed on each server in your matrix. The installation
procedure consists of the following steps, which are described in detail following
this checklist.
DescriptionAction
See Chapter 2 for configuration requirements, in-
cluding disabling 802.3x Ethernet flow control on
all NICs.
Review configuration require-
ments.
Matrix Server requirements for DNS are located in
section 1. Set up the DNS hostname, page 14.
Set up the DNS hostname.
This step is needed only if the server will be ac-
cessed by WINS clients.
Configure the server for
WINS clients.
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