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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.
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Page 1: Configuration Guide
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),... - Page 2 Version 1.2 November 2008...
- Page 3 © 2007 Acer Incorporation. All rights reserved. This paper is for informational purposes only. ACER MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, IN THIS DOCUMENT. Acer, Acer Altos are registered trademarks or trademarks of Acer Incorporation. Other product or company names mentioned herein may be the...
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Page 4: Table Of Contents
CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ...........1 HARDWARE SPECIFICATION .........2 BOARD LAYOUT ...........4 System Block Diagram DIMM POPULATION GUIDELINE ......5 Memory population Memory population with sparing Memory population with mirroring OS INSTALLATION TIPS ........7 Windows Server 2008 Enterprise x64 Edition (with Integrated SAS Hardware RAID) BIOS Required Drivers Required Software Required... - Page 5 Software Required Configuring Integrated SAS Hardware RAID Installation Tips Chipset Driver Installation Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation IOAT Driver Installation SAS Backplane Driver Installation TPM Driver Installation VGA Driver Installation Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation (I/O Expansion Module) Microsoft Scalable Networking Pack Installation RAID Utility Installation Network Utility Installation Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (with Integrated...
- Page 6 Configuring integrated SAS hardware RAID Installation Tips Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation (I/O Expansion Module) IOAT driver installation RAID Utility Installation SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 EM64T Installation (with integrated SAS hardware RAID) Drivers Required Software Required Configuring integrated SAS hardware RAID Installation Tips Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation...
- Page 7 APPENDIX A: INTEGRATED SAS HARDWARE RAID CREATION ..47 Configuring Integrated SAS Hardware RAID Starting Integrated SAS Hardware RAID Configuration Utility Loading Factory Default Setting Creating and Initialing a RAID Volume Assigning a Hot Spare Disk APPENDIX B: INTEGRATED SAS IM CREATION ....49 Configuring Integrated SAS IM Starting Integrated SAS Configuration Utility Creating IM Volume...
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Page 9: Introduction
INTRODUCTION 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. Altos R920 Installation Configuration Guide... -
Page 10: Hardware Specification
Integrated SAS Hardware RAID Controller • Support RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and • 512MB of cache (DDR2 667 registered) • BBU support • LAN Controller Onboard Intel 82563EB Dual port Gigabit Ethernet Controller Altos R920 Installation Configuration Guide... - Page 11 1+1 Redundant Power Supply Supply Storage Subsystem • Drive Bays One 5.25” front accessible drive bays for TBU • One slime type optical drive bay • One disk cage • Hard Disks Up to 8 SAS 2.5” HDD Altos R920 Installation Configuration Guide...
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Page 12: Board Layout
System Block Diagram BOARD LAYOUT Altos R920 Installation Configuration Guide... -
Page 13: Dimm Population Guideline
1 to 8 8 x 4 GB 8 x 4 GB 64 GB 60 GB NOTE. DIMM slot 1 in memory boards A and B is configured to sparing unit. Population with four memory boards Altos R920 Installation Configuration Guide... -
Page 14: Memory Population With Mirroring
1 to 8 8 x 4 GB 8 x 4 GB 8 x 4 GB 8 x 4 GB 128 GB 64 GB NOTE. DIMM slots in memory boards C and D are configured as mirroring units. Altos R920 Installation Configuration Guide... -
Page 15: Os Installation Tips
OS INSTALLATION TIPS Below is Altos R920 OS certification matrix: Servic Operating System Status Note e Pack Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Certifie Edition Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Certifie x64 Edition Windows Server 2003 R2 Certifie Enterprise Edition Windows Server 2003 R2... -
Page 16: Integrated Sas Hardware Raid)
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise x64 Edition (with Integrated SAS Hardware RAID) Below information describes how to manually install Windows Server 2008 Enterprise x64 Edition on Altos R920 with integrated SAS hardware RAID. BIOS Required Altos R920 BIOS (or later), BMC (or later) and FRUSDR (or later) are required to support Windows Server 2008. -
Page 17: Installation Tips
After the installation completes, you would see the following devices with yellow mark in Device Manager. Chipset Driver Installation Please insert the EasyBUILD into the optical drive Expand Drivers -> Altos R920 -> Chipset, select Windows Altos R920 Installation Configuration Guide... -
Page 18: Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation
Please do the same on both of the Gigabit Ethernet devices. Please insert the EasyBUILD into the optical drive Expand Drivers -> Altos R920 -> Network adapters -> Intel 82563EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller, select Windows Server 2008 x64 and click on Setup. -
Page 19: Network Utility Installation
Expand Utilities -> Altos R920 -> Integrated SAS hardware RAID, select RAID Web Console 2 (Windows) and click on Setup. Follow the instruction and use the default setting to complete the RAID Utility Installation. Network Utility Installation The PROSet utility for the onboard Gigabit Ethernet controller will be installed automatically when you installing the onboard Gigabit Ethernet driver. -
Page 20: Software Required
After loading the RAID driver from diskette, you could click “Drive options” to partition the drive. Follow the normal procedure to finish the installation. After the installation completes, you would see the following devices with yellow mark in Device Manager. Altos R920 Installation Configuration Guide... -
Page 21: Chipset Driver Installation
Chipset Driver Installation Please insert the EasyBUILD into the optical drive Expand Drivers -> Altos R920 -> Chipset, select Windows Server 2008 x64 and click on Setup. Follow the instruction to install the driver and reboot the server after the chipset driver is installed. -
Page 22: Ioat Driver Installation
Gigabit Ethernet driver at previous step. RAID Utility Installation Please insert the EasyBUILD into the optical drive. Expand Utilities -> Altos R920 -> Integrated SAS hardware RAID, select RAID Web Console 2 (Windows) and click on Setup. Follow the instruction and use the default setting to complete the RAID Utility Installation. -
Page 23: Drivers Required
Please refer to the Appendix A. for the integrated SAS hardware RAID configuration. Installation Tips NOTE. There is no built-in driver for integrated SAS hardware RAID in the OS. You need an USB floppy for applying driver during the OS installation. Altos R920 Installation Configuration Guide... -
Page 24: Chipset Driver Installation
Device Manager. Please insert the EasyBUILD 8.0 build 100 into the optical drive Expand Drivers -> Altos R920 -> Chipset, select Windows Server 2003 x64 and click on Setup. Follow the instruction to install the driver and reboot the server after the chipset driver is installed. -
Page 25: Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation
Select Search the best driver these locations and check Include this location in the search. Click on Browse and specify the path for the driver. Please refer to the EasyBUILD Version 8.0 build 100 for Altos R920 Installation Configuration Guide... -
Page 26: Sas Backplane Driver Installation
Select No, not this time. Do not connect to Windows Update to search the driver. Select Install from a list or specific location (Advanced). Select Search the best driver these locations and check Include this location in the search. Altos R920 Installation Configuration Guide... -
Page 27: Vga Driver Installation
100. Please insert the EasyBUILD 8.0 build 100 into the optical drive. Expand Drivers -> Altos R920 -> Graphics adapters -> ATI ES1000, select Windows Server 2003 x64 and click on Setup. Follow the instruction to install the VGA driver and reboot the server after the driver is installed. -
Page 28: Microsoft Scalable Networking Pack Installation
RAID Utility Installation Please insert the EasyBUILD 8.0 build 100 into the optical drive. Expand Utilities -> Altos R920 -> Integrated SAS Hardware RAID, select RAID Web Console 2(Windows) and click on Setup. Follow the instruction and use the default setting to complete the RAID Web Console 2 installation. -
Page 29: Drivers Required
Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition on Altos R920 with integrated SAS hardware RAID. Drivers Required For Windows Server 2003 R2 Installation, the following device drivers are required. Device Version EasyBUILD Version 8.24.3- 060405a- EasyBUILD 8.0 build 100 (or Onboard VGA... -
Page 30: Chipset Driver Installation
Device Manager. Please insert the EasyBUILD 8.0 build 100 into the optical drive Expand Drivers -> Altos R920 -> Chipset, select Windows Server 2003 and click on Setup. Follow the instruction to install the driver and reboot the server after the chipset driver is installed. -
Page 31: Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation
Click on Browse and specify the path for the driver. Please refer to the EasyBUILD Version 8.0 build 100 for IOAT driver in Driver required section. Click on Next and follow the instruction to finish the Altos R920 Installation Configuration Guide... -
Page 32: Sas Backplane Driver Installation
Select Search the best driver these locations and check Include this location in the search. Click on Browse and specify the path for the driver. Please refer to the EasyBUILD Version 8.0 build 100 for IOAT driver in Driver required section. Altos R920 Installation Configuration Guide... -
Page 33: Vga Driver Installation
100. Please insert the EasyBUILD 8.0 build 100 into the optical drive. Expand Drivers -> Altos R920 -> Graphics adapters -> ATI ES1000, select Windows Server 2003 and click on Setup. Follow the instruction to install the VGA driver and reboot the server after the driver is installed. -
Page 34: Microsoft Scalable Networking Pack Installation
PROSet utility installation. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 EM64T (with Integrated SAS Hardware RAID) Below information describes how to manually install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 EM64T on Altos R920 with integrated SAS hardware RAID. Altos R920 Installation Configuration Guide... -
Page 35: Drivers Required
SAS hardware RAID, you need to make a driver diskette from the EasyBUILD 8.0 build 100 first before the installation. Type linux dd when the prompt boot: appears at the start. Please select the sda as the Driver Disk Source. Altos R920 Installation Configuration Guide... -
Page 36: Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation
# service network restart Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation (I/O Expansion Module) If the optional I/O Expansion module is installed on Altos R920, there are two additional Intel 82575EB Gigabit Ethernet available on Altos R920. Altos R920 Installation Configuration Guide... -
Page 37: Ioat Driver Installation
Copy the IOAT driver to /tmp # cd /tmp # tar zxf ioatdma-<ioat version>.tar.gz 3. Install the IOAT driver # cd ioatdma-<ioat version> # make install 4. Load the IOAT driver # modprobe dca # cd ioatdma # insmod ioatdma.ko Altos R920 Installation Configuration Guide... -
Page 38: Raid Utility Installation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 (with Integrated SAS Hardware RAID) Below information describes how to manually install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 on Altos R920 with integrated SAS hardware RAID. Drivers Required For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 Installation, the following device drivers are required. -
Page 39: Software Required
Follow the instruction to load the integrated SAS hardware RAID driver from the driver diskette. At the package selection step, select Software Development for the installation package. Please follow the normal procedure to finish the Altos R920 Installation Configuration Guide... -
Page 40: Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation
You can find the Intel 82575EB driver in EasyBUILD 8.0 build 100. Please refer to directory of the 82575EB driver in Driver Required section and copy the driver from the EasyBUILD 8.0 build 100 to HDD first. # mount /dev/dvd /mnt Altos R920 Installation Configuration Guide... -
Page 41: Ioat Driver Installation
4. Load the IOAT driver # modprobe dca # cd ioatdma # insmod ioatdma.ko # modprobe ioatdma # ll /sys/class/dma/ When IOAT driver installation completed, you could see subdirectories and files for each subdirectory of /sys/class/dma folder. Altos R920 Installation Configuration Guide... -
Page 42: Raid Utility Installation
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 EM64T Installation (with integrated SAS hardware RAID) Below information describes how to manually install SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 EM64T on Altos R920 with integrated SAS hardware RAID. Drivers Required For SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 EM64T Installation, the following device drivers are required. -
Page 43: Software Required
Driver Required section and copy the driver from the EasyBUILD 8.0 build 100 to HDD first. The SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 can automatically mount the EasyBUILD 8.0 build 100 DVD at /media/<easybuild> folder when inserting the DVD media. Altos R920 Installation Configuration Guide... -
Page 44: Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation (I/O Expansion Module)
# cp –R /mnt/Disk/R920/NIC/Intel/pro1000.lx/. /tmp Change the directory to the driver source and install the driver # cd /tmp/src/ # make install # insmod igb.ko IOAT driver installation 1. Please remove the old version of IOAT driver from the Altos R920 Installation Configuration Guide... -
Page 45: Raid Utility Installation
EasyBUILD 8.0 build 100 to HDD first. # mount /media/cdrecorder # cp –R /media/cdrecorder/app/r920/Integrated_SAS/Linux/. /tmp Install RAID Web Console 2 utility # cd /tmp/ # unzip ir3_Linux_RWC2_v2_19_01.zip # chmod 755 install.sh # chmod 755 RunRPM.sh # ./install.sh Altos R920 Installation Configuration Guide... -
Page 46: Suse Linux Enterprise Server 10 Sp1 Installation
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 Installation (with integrated SAS hardware RAID) Below information describes how to manually install SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 on Altos R920 with integrated SAS hardware RAID. Drivers Required For SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 EM64T Installation, the following device drivers are required. -
Page 47: Installation Tips
# cd /tmp/src/ # make install # insmod e1000.ko Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation (I/O Expansion Module) If the optional I/O Expansion module is installed on Altos R920, there are two additional Intel 82575EB Gigabit Ethernet Altos R920 Installation Configuration Guide... -
Page 48: Ioat Driver Installation
Copy the IOAT driver to /tmp # cd /tmp # tar zxf ioatdma-<ioat version>.tar.gz 3. Install the IOAT driver # cd ioatdma-<ioat version> # make install 4. Load the IOAT driver # modprobe dca # cd ioatdma Altos R920 Installation Configuration Guide... -
Page 49: Raid Utility Installation
VMware ESX Server 3.5 (with integrated SAS hardware RAID) Below information describes how to manually install VMware ESX Server 3.5 on Altos R920 with integrated SAS hardware RAID. BIOS Required Altos R920 BIOS (or later) is required to support VMware ESX Server 3.5. -
Page 50: Configuring Integrated Sas Hardware Raid
VMware ESX Server 3.5. The below message displayed: To manage this ESX Server, use any browser to open the URL http://<IP address of the ESX Server>/ Please remotely connect the ESX Server from a console Altos R920 Installation Configuration Guide... -
Page 51: Vmware Infrastructure Client Installation On Windows
VMware Infrastructure Client Installation on Windows To install the VMware Infrastructure Client utility on your console system. Launch VMware Infrastructure Client utility. Now, you can manage the ESX Server or create virtual machines with the VMware Infrastructure Client utility. Altos R920 Installation Configuration Guide... -
Page 52: Sco Unixware 7.1.4 Installation With Integrated Sas Hardware Raid)
SCO UnixWare 7.1.4 Installation with integrated SAS hardware RAID) Below information describes how to manually install SCO UnixWare 7.1.4 on Altos R920 with integrated SAS hardware RAID. BIOS Required Altos R920 BIOS (or later), BMC (or later) and FRUSDR (or later) are recommended to support UnixWare 7.1.4. -
Page 53: Configuring Integrated Sas Hardware Raid
Copy the driver from floppy diskette to hard disk # mount -F dosfs /dev/fd0 /mnt # mkdir /temp # cp /mnt/e1008g.pkg /temp/. Install the driver package # pkgadd -d /temp/e1008g.pkg Launch netcfg utility and select Hardware -> Add new LAN Altos R920 Installation Configuration Guide... -
Page 54: Os Multiprocessor Support Installation
CD. Mount the Maintenance Pack CD and run the install.sh #mount /dev/cdrom/cdrom1 /mnt #cd /mnt #./install.sh Select Apply to install the update with default packages. Reboot the server after installation completed. Altos R920 Installation Configuration Guide... -
Page 55: Appendix A: Integrated Sas Hardware Raid Creation
Now you can reboot the system and install the Operating System. Select Exit, click on Yes and press Ctrl+Alt+Del to reboot the system. Assigning a Hot Spare Disk Launch the configuration menu. Select a free disk marked as UNCONF GOOD and listed under Altos R920 Installation Configuration Guide... - Page 56 Select Make Global HSP or Make Dedicated HSP and click on Click on Home to go back to the configuration menu. You will see the disk marked as HOTSPARE in pink and listed under Physical Drives. Altos R920 Installation Configuration Guide...
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Page 57: Appendix B: Integrated Sas Im Creation
To add the disk to the volume as hot spare, change the No to Yes by pressing the + key, - key, or space bar. Select Save changes then exit this menu to commit the changes. Altos R920 Installation Configuration Guide...