NEC Confidential and Proprietary VMware 4.0 Quick Start Guide (Express5800/320Fd) Rev 1.0 (2010.5.26) 456-01829-000 Enterprise Servers Division NEC Corporation of America Revision History VMware 4.
NEC Confidential and Proprietary 5/26/2010 Rev1.0 VMware 4.0 Quick Start Guide Initial release R.
NEC Confidential and Proprietary CMOS configuration: 1. Detach the front bezel. 2. If the Power light is not lit on the upper PCI Module perform the following procedure. a) Power down and disconnect both power cords from the 320Fd server. b) Connect the power cord to the AC inlet for the upper module and wait for the diagnostic LED to go out (LED no 1 on the left side).
NEC Confidential and Proprietary Move the cursor onto “Server” and select “Server.” 5. The Server menu will be displayed: 6. Move the cursor onto “Monitoring Configuration” and press Enter. The Monitoring Configuration submenu appears: 7. Move the cursor onto “OS Boot Monitoring” and press Enter Parameters will be displayed VMware 4.
NEC Confidential and Proprietary 8. Among the parameters, choose “Disabled” and press Enter. The current display of the configuration for OS Boot Monitoring will be changed to “Disabled.” 9. 10. Momentary depress the Esc key Move the cursor to the Boot menu and verify that the CDROM is the first boot device. a) To move the CD-ROM to the top of the list use the plus (+) and minus (-) keys 11. Put the ftControl Software DVD in the upper module DVD ROM. 12.
NEC Confidential and Proprietary 14. When prompted for which internal drives to use select the drives 15. Depress the Ok button to initialize the selected drives. 16. When the Mirror Initialization box closes depress the Next button 17. When the ESX Installer Preparation box is displayed insert the vSphere 4.0 media. VMware 4.
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NEC Confidential and Proprietary 18. When the EsxInstaller Preparation is complete depress the Next button. 19. When Welcome to the ESX installer screen is displayed depress the Next button. . 20. After reading and agreeing with it terms of the license check the I accept the terms of this license agreement box and depress the Next button. 21. Select the type of keyboard on the Select Keyboard screen is displayed and depress Next button. VMware 4.
NEC Confidential and Proprietary 22. Select No when the Custom Drivers screen is displayed and depress the Next button. 23. When the Load Drivers box is displayed select Yes button. VMware 4.
NEC Confidential and Proprietary 24. When the Loading Drivers is complete select the Next button. VMware 4.
NEC Confidential and Proprietary Note: Before completing the next step connect Ethernet Port 1 (left RJ 45 connector) has an active network connection. Disconnect the network cables from all other Ethernet ports. 25. When the License screen is displayed enter the serial number and depress the Next button. 26. On the Network Configuration screen, click the Network adaptor in the drop-down list that has a green check mark and depress the Next button. 27.
NEC Confidential and Proprietary 28. When the Setup Type screen is displayed check the radial button by Advanced Setup and verify that the check box Configure boot loader automatically is checked. Depress the Next button to continue. 29. When the ESX Storage Device screen is displayed, select the volume to install and depress the Next button. VMware 4.
NEC Confidential and Proprietary 30. When the message: “The contents of the selected storage device will be erased before ESX is installed.” is displayed depress the Ok button to continue VMware 4.
NEC Confidential and Proprietary 31. When the Datastore screen is displayed you can do: a) If you are installing the software on a blank LUN ID click Create new datastore. b) If you are installing on a previously use LUN ID and want to preserver the existing datastore click Use existing datastore. c) Click Next to continue. Note: If you manually alter the default partitions ensure that the partition settings meet or exceed the default recommendations, which are required for normal operation.. 32.
NEC Confidential and Proprietary 33. When the Time Zone Settings screen is displayed select the appropriate time zone and depress Next to continue. 34. When the Date and Time screen is displayed correct the date and time as needed and depress Next to continue. 35. Enter the administrator password when the Set Administrator Password screen is displayed and depress Next. VMware 4.
NEC Confidential and Proprietary 36. Verify the settings when the Summary of installation settings screen is displayed. Depress the Next button to start the installation. 37. Click Next when the Installation is complete. VMware 4.
NEC Confidential and Proprietary 38. Click Finish button when the ESX 4.0 Installation Complete screen is displayed. VMware 4.
NEC Confidential and Proprietary 39. When the ESX login in Screen is displayed depress Alt-F1 to logon to the system. 40. Logon to the system as root. 41. Insert the ftControl software into the DVD ROM drive on the top module. 42. Enter /opt/ft/sbin/ft-install to start the installation process. The installation process prompts you to answer configuration questions, read and accept software ELUAS. The software verifies the system configuration and advise you of the current system configuration.
NEC Confidential and Proprietary 43. Enter a password for ftadmin when prompted. 44. Press Enter at the final screen to reboot the system 45. While the system is rebooting remove the ftControl DVD. 46. Plug in the Ethernet cables in to the additional Ethernet ports on the back of the system. 47. When the message “Press to enter SETUP” or “Press to enter SETUP or Press to boot from Network” is displayed on the display screen, press F2.
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NEC Confidential and Proprietary 48. Move the cursor onto “Server” and select “Server.” The Server menu will be displayed: VMware 4.
NEC Confidential and Proprietary 49. Among the parameters, choose “Disabled” and press Enter. The current display of the configuration for OS Boot Monitoring will be changed to “Enabled.” 50. Depress F10 to Save and Exit the BIOS configuration and continue booting. VMware 4.
NEC Confidential and Proprietary 51. When the ESX login in Screen is displayed depress Alt-F1 to logon to the system. 52.
NEC Confidential and Proprietary b) esxcfg-firewall –o 161,udp,out,esmsnmpout esxcfg-firewall –o 162,udp,out,esmsnmptrap c) Note: The DVD drives are not fault tolerant and are disable for normal operation of the VMware server. To determine the current status of the IDE subsystem you can execute the enable-ide get status (s) at the command prompt (“/opt/ft./sbin/enable-ide -s”.). 56. At the command prompt type “/opt/ft/sbin/enable-ide” to enable the IDE subsystem. 57.
