Acer Altos R920 Series User manual

Altos R920
Installation
Configuration Guide
Abstract
This document provides you a quick OS installation guide on Altos R920,
including Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 x64, Windows Server
2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 Edition, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5.0 (32-bit & 64-bit), SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (32-bit & 64-bit),
VMware ESX Server 3.5 and SCO UnixWare 7.1.4.

Version 1.2
November 2008

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INTRODUCTION ...........................................1
HARDWARE SPECIFICATION .................................2
BOARD LAYOUT ...........................................4
System Block Diagram 4
DIMM POPULATION GUIDELINE ..............................5
Memory population 5
Memory population with sparing 5
Memory population with mirroring 6
OS INSTALLATION TIPS ...................................7
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise x64 Edition (with
Integrated SAS Hardware RAID) 8
BIOS Required 8
Drivers Required 8
Software Required 8
Configuring Integrated SAS Hardware RAID 8
Installation Tips 9
Chipset Driver Installation 9
Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation 10
IOAT Driver Installation 10
VGA Driver Installation 10
Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation (I/O Expansion
Module) 10
RAID Utility Installation 10
Network Utility Installation 11
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition (with Integrated
SAS Hardware RAID) 11
BIOS Required 11
Drivers Required 11
Software Required 12
Configuring Integrated SAS Hardware RAID 12
Installation Tips 12
Chipset Driver Installation 13
Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation 13
IOAT Driver Installation 14
VGA Driver Installation 14
Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation (I/O Expansion
Module) 14
RAID Utility Installation 14
Network Utility Installation 14
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition (with
Integrated SAS Hardware RAID) 14
Drivers Required 15
CONTENTS

Software Required 15
Configuring Integrated SAS Hardware RAID 15
Installation Tips 15
Chipset Driver Installation 16
Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation 17
IOAT Driver Installation 17
SAS Backplane Driver Installation 18
TPM Driver Installation 18
VGA Driver Installation 19
Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation (I/O Expansion
Module) 19
Microsoft Scalable Networking Pack Installation 20
RAID Utility Installation 20
Network Utility Installation 20
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (with Integrated
SAS Hardware RAID) 20
Drivers Required 21
Software Required 21
Configuring Integrated SAS Hardware RAID 21
Installation Tips 21
Chipset Driver Installation 22
Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation 23
IOAT Driver Installation 23
SAS Backplane Driver Installation 24
TPM Driver Installation 24
VGA Driver Installation 25
Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation (I/O Expansion
Module) 25
Microsoft Scalable Networking Pack Installation 26
RAID Utility Installation 26
Network Utility Installation 26
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 EM64T (with Integrated SAS
Hardware RAID) 26
Drivers Required 27
Software Required 27
Configuring integrated SAS hardware RAID 27
Installation Tips 27
Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation 28
Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation (I/O Expansion
Module) 28
IOAT driver installation 29
RAID Utility Installation 30
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 (with Integrated SAS Hardware
RAID) 30
Drivers Required 30
Software Required 31

Configuring integrated SAS hardware RAID 31
Installation Tips 31
Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation 32
Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation (I/O Expansion
Module) 32
IOAT driver installation 33
RAID Utility Installation 34
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 EM64T Installation
(with integrated SAS hardware RAID) 34
Drivers Required 34
Software Required 35
Configuring integrated SAS hardware RAID 35
Installation Tips 35
Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation 35
Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation (I/O Expansion
Module) 36
IOAT driver installation 36
RAID Utility Installation 37
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 Installation (with
integrated SAS hardware RAID) 38
Drivers Required 38
Software Required 38
Configuring integrated SAS hardware RAID 38
Installation Tips 39
Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation 39
Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation (I/O Expansion
Module) 39
IOAT driver installation 40
RAID Utility Installation 41
VMware ESX Server 3.5 (with integrated SAS hardware RAID) 41
BIOS Required 41
Drivers Required 41
Configuring integrated SAS hardware RAID 42
Installation Tips 42
Downloading the VMware Infrastructure Client 42
VMware Infrastructure Client Installation on Windows 43
SCO UnixWare 7.1.4 Installation with integrated SAS
hardware RAID) 44
BIOS Required 44
Drivers Required 44
Configuring integrated SAS hardware RAID 45
Installation Tips 45
Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation 45
OS Multiprocessor Support Installation 46
Maintenance Pack 3 Installation 46

APPENDIX A: INTEGRATED SAS HARDWARE RAID CREATION .....47
Configuring Integrated SAS Hardware RAID 47
Starting Integrated SAS Hardware RAID Configuration
Utility 47
Loading Factory Default Setting 47
Creating and Initialing a RAID Volume 47
Assigning a Hot Spare Disk 47
APPENDIX B: INTEGRATED SAS IM CREATION ................49
Configuring Integrated SAS IM 49
Starting Integrated SAS Configuration Utility 49
Creating IM Volume 49
Assigning a Hot Spare Disk 49

1 Altos R920
Installation Configuration Guide
This article describes the Altos R920 Installation
Configuration guide:
•Hardware parts give you a briefly and quick hardware
information about Altos R920
•The operating system installation tips.
INTRODUCTION

Altos R920 Installation Configuration Guide 2
Model Altos R920
Processor •Quad-core Intel Xeon processors
7300 sequence (Tigerton QC) at
1.60Hz or above Frequency
•Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors
7200 sequence (Tigerton DC) at
2.40Hz or above Frequency
Front Side Bus 1066 MHz
Cache •2 x 2MB L2 cache
•2 x 3MB L2 cache
•2 x 4MB L2 cache
Chipset Intel chipset
•North Bridge: Intel 7300
•South Bridge: Intel 6321 (ESB2E)
Memory •Four memory boards
•Four FB-DIMM memory channels
•Eight DIMM sockets per board.
Support 1GB/2GB/4GB FBDIMM DDR2-667
registered with ECC
•Maximum memory of 128GB
•Up to 21 GB/s maximum bandwidth for
FB-DIMM 667
•Support memory sparing and memory
mirroring
Storage Interface •LSI SAS 1078 SAS controller
•Two SATA ports
Expansion Slots •Two hot-plug x8 PCI Express slots
•Two x8 PCI-Express slots
•Three x8 PCI-Express slots (w/ x4
throughput)
VGA Onboard ATI ES1000 video controller w/
32 MB SDRAM
SATA Controller Two SATA port
SAS Controller LSI SAS 1078 8-port controller
•Support RAID 0, 1, and 1E
SAS RAID
Controller Integrated SAS Hardware RAID
•Support RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and
60
•512MB of cache (DDR2 667
registered)
•BBU support
LAN Controller •Onboard Intel 82563EB Dual port
Gigabit Ethernet Controller
HARDWARE SPECIFICATION