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2. After DVD1 is copied, the following prompt appears:
Press Enter to shutdown the system. After the system is powered off,
apply power and remove media from the drive to complete the
installation.
Follow those instructions. After the system powers down, make sure you
remove the first DVD as soon as you power on the system.
3. After the system regains power, you see the following prompt:
Please insert media 2 into the drive, and press Enter when ready.
Insert DVD2 and press Enter.
4. At the end of the installation process, the setup wizard (see 2.4, “Setup
wizard” on page 28) will appear, with which you can do the initial configuration
of the SDMC.
2.3 Installation of the software appliance
The SDMC software appliance can be installed in the customer’s existing x86
virtualized infrastructure (see 2.1, “Prerequisites” on page 16 for the minimum
hardware requirements). Customer supplied virtualization hypervisor options
include VMware (vSphere server and ESXi Version 4 or later; at least Version
4.1 is required if USB support is desired) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Enterprise KVM Version 5.5 or later.
2.3.1 SDMC software appliance installation media specifics
The following media is available for installation:
򐂰 Users can install from DVD media. Due to the single-layer DVD size
limitation, the shipped media will contain multiple DVDs containing disk
images, OVF, and a manifest.
You can order the media from the ESS Web site:
http://www.ibm.com/eserver/ess
2.3.2 VMware installation
For the SDMC installation, the user can use any of the standard mechanisms in
VMware to deploy an OVF/OVA file. Two deployment methods will be supported
for VMware ESX and ESXi 4:
򐂰 A command-line utility using the OVF Tool