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Cisco UCS C-Series Servers Windows Installation Guide

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Windows Server 2008 andWindows Server 2008 R2 Installation

This chapter contains two procedures:

Installation on an Internal Drive, page 2-1

SAN Boot Installation, page 2-10

Tip Although the procedure in this section does not require it, Cisco has also developed the Cisco Server

Configuration Utility for C-Series servers, which can assist you by slip-streaming drivers for an

unattended installation of the operating system. This utility is shipped with new servers on CD. You can

also download the ISO from Cisco.com. See the user documentation for obtaining and using this utility

at the following URL:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/sw/ucsscu/user/guide/20/SCUUG20.html

Installation on an Internal DriveNote We recommend that the fastest method for Windows installation is to place the Windows discs into the

DVD drive of the C-Series server while you use the virtual floppy drive for driver installation. Steps are

also provided for mapping a Windows ISO image as a virtual CD/DVD.

This section describes how to install Windows Server 2008 x64 and required drivers on an internal drive

by using the virtual media feature.

Prerequisites

The following items or actions are required before you begin this procedure:

A configured IP address for the management port of the server; verify that you can connect to it and

the Cisco Integrated Management Controller (CIMC) utility.

The Cisco UCS C-Series Drivers CD, or the ISO image of this CD from Cisco.com.

If installing to one of the LSI RAID controllers, configure a LUN to which you will install. See

RAID Controller Considerations, page B-1 for information about RAID controllers and links to LSI

documentation.
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Chapter 2 Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Installation

Installation on an Internal Drive

Note If your server has an LSI MegaRAID controller, configure RAID settings for the drives in your

server. If you do not configure your LSI MegaRAID LUNs before installing the OS, disk

discovery failures might occur during the installation and you see error messages such as No

Device Found.

The Windows installation media, either CD/DVD or an ISO image. Also, the activation keys for this

software installation.

Note If you do not know which devices are installed in your target server so that you know which drivers are

required, you can determine this by reading the output from the server boot process. As devices are

initialized, information about them is displayed in messages. However, Quiet Boot must be disabled in

the server BIOS. See How to Determine Which Controller Is in Your Server, page B-1.

Procedure

Use the following procedure to install the software and drivers:

Step 1 Find the drivers for your installed devices on the Cisco UCS C-Series Drivers DVD that came with your

C-Series server, and then extract them to a local machine such as your laptop. See Drivers for C-Series

Windows Installation, page A-1 for driver locations.

See also How to Determine Which Controller Is in Your Server, page B-1.

If you do not have this driver DVD, you can download the driver package ISO for your server from Cisco

at http://www.cisco.com/cisco/web/support/index.html. You can burn the image to a CD or use a

third-party utility to mount the image on a laptop hard drive.

Step 2 Use a browser to connect to CIMC Manager using the CIMC IP address.

Step 3 Log in to CIMC Manager using your administrator user ID and password.

The default user ID is admin; the default password is password.
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Step 4 Enable the Virtual Media feature, which enables the server to mount virtual drives:

a. On the CIMC Manager Server tab, clickRemote Presence.

b. On the Remote Presence pane, click the Virtual Media tab and check the check box to enable

Virtual Media.

c. ClickSave Changes.

Step 5 On the Remote Presence pane, click the Virtual KVM tab and then clickLaunch KVM Console.

Step 6 When the Virtual KVM Console window launches, select Tools > Launch Virtual Media (for CIMC

release 1.2(4) and earlier).

For CIMC release 1.3(1) and later, click the VM tab.


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Step 7 In the Virtual Media Session window, provide the path to the Windows installation image using one of

these two methods:

If you are installing from Windows discs, place the first installation CD in the DVD drive of the

C-Series server. Wait for the server to read the disc, as indicated by the D: drive icon in the Client

View pane.

Tip ClickDetails to display the Details pane and observe the reading and writing progress.

If you are installing from a Windows ISO image, clickAdd Image and then use the dialog to

navigate to your Windows 2008 ISO file and select it. The ISO image is displayed in the Client View

pane.

Step 8 Check the check box in the Mapped column for the media that you added, and then wait for mapping to

complete. Observe the progress in the Details pane.

Step 9 When mapping is complete, power cycle the server so that the BIOS recognizes the media that you just

added.

Note You can power cycle the server by pressing the Power button on the server; by selecting

Macros > Ctrl-Alt-Del on the Cisco KVM Console window menu bar; or by selecting Power Cycle

Server on the Server Summary tab of the Cisco Integrated Management Controller GUI.

Step 10 In the Virtual KVM Console window, watch during bootup for the F2 prompt, and then press F2 to enter

BIOS setup. Wait for the setup utility screen to appear.

Note After you press F2 there is a small time interval before the BIOS setup utility is displayed because the

server continues to initialize devices and then displays the utility only after this is complete.


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Step 11 On the BIOS Setup utility screen, select the Boot Options tab and verify that you see the virtual DVD

device that you just addedStep 7 listed as a bootable device.

Note Quiet Boot is enabled by default, so you see the Cisco splash screen when the F2 prompt is displayed.


the BIOS setup utility.

Step 13 On the BIOS setup utility screen, select the Boot Manager tab.

Step 14 On the Boot Manager screen, select the physical disc or virtual DVD that you mounted in Step 7 and

then press Enter. The Windows installation begins when the image is booted.

Step 15 Press Enter when prompted to boot from CD.

Step 16 Observe the Windows installation process and respond to prompts in the wizard as required for your

preferences and company standards.


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Step 17 When Windows prompts you with Where do you want to install Windows, first install the drivers for

your mass storage device:

a. On the Install Windows window, clickLoad Driver. You are prompted by a Load Driver dialog to

select the driver to be installed. In the next steps you first define a virtual device with your driver

ISO image.

b. If not already open, open a KVM Virtual Media Session window as you did in Step 6.

c. In the Virtual Media Session window, unmount the virtual DVD that you mapped in Step 7 (remove

its check mark under Mapped).

d. In the Virtual Media Session window, clickAdd Image.

e. Use the dialog to navigate to the location where you saved the Cisco driver ISO image for your mass

storage device in Step 1 and select it. The ISO appears in the Client View pane. See Drivers for

C-Series Windows Installation, page A-1 for driver locations.
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f. In the Virtual Media Session window, check the check box under Mapped to mount the driver ISO

that you just selected. Wait for mapping to complete, as indicated in the Details pane. After mapping

is complete, you can select the device for Windows installation.

g. On the Windows Load Driver dialog that you opened in Step a, clickBrowse.

h. Use the dialog to select the virtual DVD device that you just created, and then navigate to the

location of the drivers, select them, and click OK. Windows loads the drivers and when finished, the

driver is listed under the prompt Select the driver to be installed.

i. After Windows loads the drivers, select the driver for your device from the list in the Install

Windows window and then clickNext. Wait while the drivers for your mass storage device are

installed, as indicated by the progress bar.


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Step 18 After driver installation finishes, unmap the driver ISO and map the Windows installation image:

a. In the Virtual Media Session window, remove the check from the check box under Mapped that

corresponded to the driver ISO.

b. In the Virtual Media Session window, check the check box under Mapped that corresponds to your

Windows installation image (the same one that you defined in Step 7). Wait for mapping to


Step 19 In the Install Windows window, select the disk or partition where you want to install Windows from the

list, and then clickNext.

Step 20 Complete the Windows installation according to the requirements and standards of your company.

Continue to observe the Windows installation process and answer prompts as required for your

preferences. Verify that Windows lists the drivers that you added.

Step 21 After the Windows installation is complete, Windows reboots the server again and you are prompted to

press Ctrl-Alt-Del and to log in to access the Windows desktop. Use the login that you supplied during

the Windows installation process.

Note At this point, Windows still needs device drivers installed for devices such as the server chipset and

Ethernet controllers. In the Windows Server 2008 Device Manager, devices that still need drivers are

marked with yellow flags as shown in the following example.


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Step 22 Use a Windows File Manager to navigate to the folder where you extracted the Cisco driver package that

you got from the Cisco UCS C-Series Drivers DVD or downloaded from Cisco.com in Step 1. Drivers

for all of the devices are included in folders named for each device. See Drivers for C-Series Windows

Installation, page A-1 for driver locations.

Step 23 Install Intel chipset drivers:

a. In the folder that contains the chipset drivers you need, there is an EXE file that will extract and

install the drivers (for example, ...\Windows\ChipSet\Intel\W2K8\setup.exe).

b. Follow the prompts from Windows to reboot the server to complete the chipset driver installation.

Step 24 Install the LAN on motherboard (LOM) drivers:

Note If you experience slow performance when using Windows Server 2008 R2, get the latest drivers for the

onboard Intel 82576 NIC directly from the Intel site:

http://downloadcenter.intel.com

a. In the folder that contains the LOM drivers you need, there might be an EXE file that will extract

and install the drivers (for example, ...\Windows\Network\Intel\82576\W2K8\). If there is an EXE

file, click the EXE file for the set of drivers that you need. In some cases you might have to manually

install the drivers.

b. Follow the prompts from Windows to reboot the server to complete the LOM driver installation.

Step 25 Repeat the driver installation process for each device that still needs drivers, as indicated by yellow flags

in the Windows Server 2008 Device Manager.

Note Some drivers might be installed as part of the Windows hardware discovery process.
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SAN Boot Installation

SAN Boot InstallationThis section describes how to install Windows Server 2008 x64 and required drivers on a bootable SAN

LUN.

Prerequisites

The following items or actions are required before you begin this procedure:

A configured IP address for the management port of the server; verify that you can connect to it and

the Cisco Integrated Management Controller (CIMC) utility.

The Cisco UCS C-Series Drivers CD, or the ISO image of this CD from Cisco.com.

If installing to a bootable SAN device, configure a LUN on the SAN, then connect to the SAN and

verify that one (and only one) path exists from the SAN HBA to the LUN. See RAID Controller

Considerations, page B-1 for information about RAID controllers and links to LSI documentation.

Note If your server has an LSI MegaRAID controller, configure RAID settings for the drives in your

server. If you do not configure your LSI MegaRAID LUNs before installing the OS, diskdiscovery failures might occur during the installation and you see error messages such as No

Device Found.

The Windows installation media, either CD/DVD or an ISO image. Also, the activation keys for this

software installation.

Note If you do not know which devices are installed in your target server so that you know which drivers are

required, you can determine this by reading the output from the server boot process. As devices are

initialized, information about them is displayed in messages. However, Quiet Boot must be disabled in

the server BIOS. See How to Determine Which Controller Is in Your Server, page B-1.
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Procedure

Use the following procedure to install the software and drivers:

Step 1 Find the drivers for your installed devices on the Cisco UCS C-Series Drivers DVD that came with your

C-Series server, and then extract them to a local machine such as your laptop. See Drivers for C-SeriesWindows Installation, page A-1 for driver locations.

See also How to Determine Which Controller Is in Your Server, page B-1.

If you do not have this driver DVD, you can download the driver package ISO for your server from Cisco

at http://www.cisco.com/cisco/web/support/index.html. You can burn the image to a CD or use a

third-party utility to mount the image on a laptop hard drive.

Step 2 Use a browser to connect to CIMC Manager using the CIMC IP address.

Step 3 Log in to CIMC Manager using your administrator user ID and password.

The default user ID is admin; the default password is password.

Step 4 Enable the Virtual Media feature, which enables the server to mount virtual drives:

a. On the CIMC Manager Server tab, clickRemote Presence.

b. On the Remote Presence pane, click the Virtual Media tab and check the check box to enable

Virtual Media.

c. ClickSave Changes.
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Step 5 On the Remote Presence pane, click the Virtual KVM tab and then clickLaunch KVM Console.

Step 6 When the Virtual KVM Console window launches, select Tools > Launch Virtual Media (for CIMC

release 1.2(4) and earlier).

For CIMC release 1.3(1) and later, click the VM tab.

Step 7 In the Virtual Media Session window, provide the path to the Windows installation image using one of

these two methods:

If you are installing from Windows discs, place the first installation CD in the DVD drive of the

C-Series server. Wait for the server to read the disc, as indicated by the D: drive icon in the Client

View pane.

Tip ClickDetails to display the Details pane and observe the reading and writing progress.

If you are installing from a Windows ISO image, clickAdd Image and then use the dialog to

navigate to your Windows Server 2008 ISO file and select it. The ISO image is displayed in the

Client View pane.


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Step 8 Check the check box in the Mapped column for the media that you added, and then wait for mapping to


Step 9 When mapping is complete, power cycle the server so that the BIOS recognizes the media that you just

added.

Note You can power cycle the server by pressing the Power button on the server; by selecting

Macros > Ctrl-Alt-Del on the Cisco KVM Console window menu bar; or by selecting Power Cycle

Server on the Server Summary tab of the Cisco Integrated Management Controller GUI.


BIOS setup. Wait for the setup utility screen to appear.

Note After you press F2 there is a small time interval before the BIOS setup utility is displayed because the

server continues to initialize devices and then displays the utility only after this is complete.


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Step 11 On the BIOS setup utility screen, select the Boot Options tab and verify that you see the device that you

just added Step 7 listed as a bootable device.

Note Quiet Boot is enabled by default, so you see the Cisco splash screen when the F2 prompt is displayed.

Step 12 Set the SAN LUN boot order:

a. On the Boot Options screen, select Hard Disk Order.

b. On the Hard Disk Order screen, set the target SAN LUN to be the first in the list of hard disk devices.Select Boot Option #1 and press Enter, then select the HA1 entry in the pop-up dialog and press

Enter.

c. Press F10 to save your changes and exit the BIOS setup utility. The server power cycles.


the BIOS setup utility.


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Step 14 On the BIOS setup utility screen, select the Boot Manager tab.

Step 15 On the Boot Manager screen, select the physical disc or virtual DVD that you mounted in Step 7 and

then press Enter. The Windows installation begins when the image is booted.

Step 16 Press Enter when prompted to boot from CD.




Step 18 When Windows prompts you with Where do you want to install Windows, first install the drivers for

your HBA device:

a. On the Install Windows window, clickLoad Driver. You are prompted by a Load Driver dialog to

select the driver to be installed. In the next steps you first define a virtual device with your driver

ISO image.


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b. If not already open, open a KVM Virtual Media Session window as you did in Step 6.

c. In the Virtual Media Session window, unmount the virtual DVD that you mapped in Step 7 (remove

its check mark under Mapped).

d. In the Virtual Media Session window, clickAdd Image.

e. Use the dialog to navigate to the location where you saved the Cisco driver ISO image for your HBA

device in Step 1 and select it. The ISO appears in the Client View pane. See Drivers for C-Series

Windows Installation, page A-1 for driver locations.

f. In the Virtual Media Session window, check the check box under Mapped to mount the driver ISO

that you just selected. Wait for mapping to complete, as indicated in the Details pane. After mapping

is complete, you can select the device for Windows installation.

g. On the Windows Load Driver dialog that you opened in Step a, clickBrowse.

h. Use the dialog to select the virtual DVD device that you just created, and then navigate to the

location of the drivers, select them, and clickOK. Windows loads the drivers and when finished, the

driver is listed under the prompt, Select the driver to be installed.


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i. After Windows loads the drivers, select the driver for your device from the list in the Install

Windows window and then clickNext. Wait while the drivers for your HBA device are installed, as

indicated by the progress bar.

Step 19 After driver installation finishes, unmap the driver ISO and map the Windows installation image:

a. In the Virtual Media Session window, remove the check from the check box under Mapped that

corresponded to the driver ISO.

b. In the Virtual Media Session window, check the check box under Mapped that corresponds to your

Windows installation image (the same one that you defined in Step 7). Wait for mapping to


c. After re-mounting the windows installation image, you must click the Refresh button on the Install

Windows screen. Failure to do this will result in an error message and you will be unable to continuethe installation.

Step 20 In the Install Windows window, select the disk or partition where you want to install Windows from the

list, and then clickNext.


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Step 22 After the Windows installation is complete, Windows reboots the server again and you are prompted to

press Ctrl-Alt-Del and to log in to access the Windows desktop. Use the login that you supplied duringthe Windows installation process.

Note At this point, Windows still needs device drivers installed for devices such as the server chipset and

Ethernet controllers. In the Windows 2008 Device Manager, devices that still need drivers are marked

with yellow flags as shown in the example below.

Step 23 Use a Windows File Manager to navigate to the folder where you extracted the Cisco driver package that

you got from the Cisco UCS C-Series Drivers DVD or downloaded from Cisco.com in Step 1. Drivers

for all the devices are included in folders named for each device. See Drivers for C-Series Windows

Installation, page A-1 for driver locations.

Step 24 Install Intel chipset drivers:

a. In the folder that contains the chipset drivers you need, there is an EXE file that will extract and

install the drivers (for example, ...\Windows\ChipSet\Intel\W2K8\setup.exe).

b. Follow the prompts from Windows to reboot the server to complete the chipset driver installation.

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Note If you experience slow performance when using Windows Server 2008 R2, get the latest drivers for the

onboard Intel 82576 NIC directly from the Intel site:

http://downloadcenter.intel.com

a. In the folder that contains the LOM drivers you need, there might be an EXE file that will extractand install the drivers (for example, ...\Windows\Network\Intel\82576\W2K8\). If there is an EXE

file, click the EXE file for the set of drivers that you need. In some cases you might have to manually

install the drivers.

b. Follow the prompts from Windows to reboot the server to complete the LOM driver installation.

Step 26 Repeat the driver installation process for each device that still needs drivers, as indicated by yellow flags

in the Windows 2008 Device Manager.

Note Some drivers might be installed as part of the Windows hardware discovery process.
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