
Contents
Express5800/R320d-E4, R320d-M4 Installation Guide (VMware 5.5)
Contents
Documents for This Product............................................................................................................................ 2
Contents........................................................................................................................................................ 3
Notations Used in This Document ................................................................................................................... 5
Notations used in the text ....................................................................................................................... 5
Optical disk drives.................................................................................................................................. 5
Hard disk drives ..................................................................................................................................... 5
Removable media .................................................................................................................................. 5
POST ................................................................................................................................................... 5
BMC ................................................................................................................................................... 5
Trademarks.................................................................................................................................................... 6
Regulatory Notices......................................................................................................................................... 7
Warnings andAdditions to This Document......................................................................................................11
Latest editions.......................................................................................................................................11
Chapter 1 Installing OS...............................................................................................................................12
1.
Setup Procedure.......................................................................................................................................13
1.1
Requirements for Setup..................................................................................................................14
1.2
Preparations for Setup....................................................................................................................15
1.2.1 Prepare NEC Express5800/ft series....................................................................................15
1.2.2 Prepare external storage device..........................................................................................17
1.3
Enabling internal disk......................................................................................................................18
1.4
Enabling FC card............................................................................................................................21
1.5
Disabling OS Boot Monitoring Function...........................................................................................25
1.6
Setting HBAconfiguration by using QLogic......................................................................................27
1.7
Installing VMware ESXi...................................................................................................................35
1.7.1 Installing VMware ESXi.......................................................................................................35
1.7.2 Configuring ESXi................................................................................................................38
1.7.3 Configuring the Firewall for the ESXi Host from the vSphere Client ......................................41
1.8
Installing ftSys Management Appliance............................................................................................42
1.8.1 Checking the Installation Destination Disk...........................................................................42
1.8.2 Installing ftSys Management Appliance ...............................................................................44
1.9
Installing ft control software.............................................................................................................49
1.10
Applying Patch Program...............................................................................................................53
1.11
Setup after installing ft control software.........................................................................................54
1.11.1 Log Server........................................................................................................................54
1.11.2 Installing Additional Packages...........................................................................................56
1.11.3 Checking status of ft server...............................................................................................57
1.12
Connecting and Configuring Options.............................................................................................58
1.13
Enabling OS Boot Monitoring Function..........................................................................................59
1.14
Backing up System Information ....................................................................................................60
1.14.1 BIOS SETUP....................................................................................................................60
1.14.2 System information...........................................................................................................61
1.14.3 BMC Configuration ...........................................................................................................61
1.15
Setup Procedures upon Installing Guest OS..................................................................................62