Installation Guide, Windows Server 2008 R2 on HP Integrity Servers v7.1 (T2369-90032, March 2011)

— Installing offline diagnostic tools
— Installing Windows
• Maintain Firmware — Maintains the firmware for selected devices with flashable firmware.
You can flash devices individually or all at once.
NOTE: You cannot flash the firmware if the installed version is the same as, or higher,
than the version on the Smart Setup media. Also, you cannot use EBSU to flash the system
firmware and System Management Firmware (iLO firmware) of Integrity BL8x0c i2 server
blades and rx2800 i2 servers.
• Create Partitions — creates the following partitions:
— EFI System Partition. This partition is required to boot the OS. Store only EFI drivers
and OS system files here. This partition is labeled EFIPART.
— HP Service Partition (HPSP). This is optional. The files from the HP Integrity Offline
Diagnostics and Utilities CD are stored here. This partition is labeled HPPART.
— Microsoft Reserved Partition (MSR). Windows requires this partition on the boot drive
and all data drives. The MSR partition is created by this utility if the HPSP partition
has also been created; otherwise, it is created by the Windows installer.
• Install Diagnostics — Installs a copy of the diagnostics programs from the HP Integrity
Offline Diagnostics CD in the HPSP partition.
Some options available from the EBSU main menu are not part of Express Setup, but you
can use them to diagnose problems or customize firmware settings.
• Drive Explorer — Offers the following options:
— Launch. Launches the Drive Explorer, which displays the directories present on the
disks in the EFI partition or executes EFI programs.
— Install. Installs the Drive Explorer
• System Inventory — Retrieves system information and displays a report of the system
hardware.
• Pre-OS Configuration Checking — Performs the following checks on cell-based
(partitionable) systems, BL8x0c i2 server blades, and rx2800 i2 servers:
— On cell-based systems:
◦ All. Displays a message stating that these are checks on cell-based systems only
and performs all checks if appropriate.
◦ ACPI. Checks that the ACPI configuration setting is set to windows. If it is not set
to windows, execute the acpiconfig command in the EFI Shell, and then enter
the reset command to reboot with the configuration set to windows.
NOTE: On cell-based HP Integrity servers, to boot the Windows operating system,
you must set the ACPI configuration value of an nPartition to windows.
◦ CLM. Checks if a cell has the optimal amount of memory allocated. You can
configure CLM for each cell as a percentage of the total memory in the cell or as
an absolute number of gigabytes. For Windows, HP recommends assigning 100%
CLM for each cell in the partition. See the nPartition Guide for instructions.
— On Integrity BL8x0c i2 server blades and rx2800 i2 servers:
◦ Memory Interleave Setting. Displays message describing how to set the Memory
Interleave value in EFI.
• Intel Disk Tools
— Access these tools. Displays a message stating that you must enter the EFI shell and
go to the \efi\efi_utils directory to use Diskpart, Efifmt, or Efichk.
— Diskpart. Creates and manages disk partitions.
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