NEC Express5800-320Fd Quick Start Guide

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Quick Start Guide

(Express5800/320Fd)

Rev 1.0

(2010.5.26)

456-01829-000

Enterprise Servers Division

NEC Corporation of America

Revision History

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5/26/2010

Rev1.0

Initial release

R.Mitchem

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CMOS configuration:

1. Detach the front bezel.

2. If the Power light is not lit on the upper PCI Module perform the following procedure.

a) Power down and disconnect both power cords from the 320Fd server.
b) Connect the power cord to the AC inlet for the upper module and wait for the diagnostic

LED to go out (LED no 1 on the left side).

c) Connect the power cord to the AC inlet for the lower module and wait for the diagnostic

LED to go out (LED no 1 on the left side).

d) Make sure that both of the CPU/IO module status LED NUMBER 1 is off.

3. Lift the cover on the upper POWER switch and momentary depress the power button.

IMPORTANT:

Do not turn off the power before the “NEC” logo appears.

4. When the message “Press <F2> to enter SETUP” or “Press <F2> to enter SETUP or Press <F12> to
boot from Network” is displayed on the display screen, press F2.

The BIOS Setup Utility “SETUP” starts and the Main menu is displayed on the screen.

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5. Move the cursor onto “Server” and select “Server.”

The Server menu will be displayed:

6. Move the cursor onto “Monitoring Configuration” and press Enter.

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The Monitoring Configuration submenu appears:

7. Move the cursor onto “OS Boot Monitoring” and press Enter
Parameters will be displayed

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8. Among the parameters, choose “Disabled” and press Enter.

The current display of the configuration for OS Boot Monitoring will be changed to
“Disabled.”

9. Momentary depress the Esc key

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10. Move the cursor to the Boot menu and verify that the CDROM is the first boot device.

a) To move the CD-ROM to the top of the list use the plus (+) and minus (-) keys

11. Put the ftControl Software DVD in the upper module DVD ROM.

12. Depress F10 to Save and Exit the BIOS configuration and continue booting.

13. When the Welcome screen is displayed depress the Next button to continue.

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14. When prompted for which internal drives to use select the drives

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15. Depress the Ok button to initialize the selected drives.

16. When the Mirror Initialization box closes depress the Next button

17. When the ESX Installer Preparation box is displayed insert the vSphere 4.0 media.

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18. When the EsxInstaller Preparation is complete depress the Next button.

19. When Welcome to the ESX installer screen is displayed depress the Next button.

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20. After reading and agreeing with it terms of the license check the I accept the terms of this license

agreement box and depress the Next button.

21. Select the type of keyboard on the Select Keyboard screen is displayed and depress Next button.

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