NEC Express 5800 Series Installation Manual

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ContentsExpress5800/R320d-E4, R320d-M4 Installation Guide (VMware 5.5) 3ContentsDocuments for This Product ............................................................................................................................ 2Contents ........................................................................................................................................................ 3Notations Used in This Document ................................................................................................................... 5Notations used in the text ....................................................................................................................... 5Optical disk drives .................................................................................................................................. 5Hard disk drives ..................................................................................................................................... 5Removable media .................................................................................................................................. 5POST ................................................................................................................................................... 5BMC ................................................................................................................................................... 5Trademarks .................................................................................................................................................... 6Regulatory Notices ......................................................................................................................................... 7Warnings and Additions to This Document...................................................................................................... 11Latest editions ....................................................................................................................................... 11Chapter 1 Installing OS ...............................................................................................................................121. Setup Procedure.......................................................................................................................................131.1 Requirements for Setup ..................................................................................................................141.2 Preparations for Setup ....................................................................................................................151.2.1 Prepare NEC Express5800/ft series ....................................................................................151.2.2 Prepare external storage device..........................................................................................171.3 Enabling internal disk......................................................................................................................181.4 Enabling FC card............................................................................................................................211.5 Disabling OS Boot Monitoring Function ...........................................................................................251.6 Setting HBA configuration by using QLogic ......................................................................................271.7 Installing VMware ESXi...................................................................................................................351.7.1 Installing VMware ESXi.......................................................................................................351.7.2 Configuring ESXi ................................................................................................................381.7.3 Configuring the Firewall for the ESXi Host from the vSphere Client ......................................411.8 Installing ftSys Management Appliance............................................................................................421.8.1 Checking the Installation Destination Disk ...........................................................................421.8.2 Installing ftSys Management Appliance ...............................................................................441.9 Installing ft control software .............................................................................................................491.10 Applying Patch Program ...............................................................................................................531.11 Setup after installing ft control software .........................................................................................541.11.1 Log Server........................................................................................................................541.11.2 Installing Additional Packages ...........................................................................................561.11.3 Checking status of ft server ...............................................................................................571.12 Connecting and Configuring Options.............................................................................................581.13 Enabling OS Boot Monitoring Function..........................................................................................591.14 Backing up System Information ....................................................................................................601.14.1 BIOS SETUP ....................................................................................................................601.14.2 System information ...........................................................................................................611.14.3 BMC Configuration ...........................................................................................................611.15 Setup Procedures upon Installing Guest OS..................................................................................62