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Microsoft product screen shots are reprinted with permission from Microsoft Corporation. ii Hitachi Compute Blade 500 Series EFI User's Guide Contents Preface ............................................................................................... ix Intended Audience .................................................................................................. x Product Version ...................................................................................................... x Release Notes ........................................................................................................ x Document Organization ........................................................................................... x Referenced Documents .......................................................................................... xi Document Conventions ........................................................................................... xi Convention for storage capacity values ................................................................... xii Getting Help ......................................................................................................... xiii Comments ........................................................................................................... xiii 1 UEFI and BIOS Configuration Overview ............................................... 1-1 Overview ............................................................................................................ 1-2 Types and roles ............................................................................................. 1-2 Starting remote console ................................................................................. 1-2 UEFI ................................................................................................................... 1-4 Disk array utilities ................................................................................................ 1-4 PXE boot ............................................................................................................. 1-5 iSCSI .................................................................................................................. 1-5 iSCSI initiator ................................................................................................ 1-6 iSCSI target .................................................................................................. 1-6 Fibre channel mezzanine card BIOS ...................................................................... 1-6 2 UEFI setup menu .............................................................................. 2-1 Configuration of UEFI setup menu ........................................................................ 2-2 Key functions for UEFI setup menu ....................................................................... 2-3 Starting UEFI setup menu .................................................................................... 2-3 UEFI setup menu window .................................................................................... 2-3 UEFI setup menu items (CB 520H A1/B1) .............................................................. 2-5 System Configuration and Boot Management .................................................. 2-5 Storage expansion blade settings .................................................................. 2-19 UEFI setup menu items (CB 520H B2) ................................................................. 2-21 System Configuration and Boot Management ................................................. 2-21 Storage expansion blade settings .................................................................. 2-37 UEFI setup menu items (CB 520H B3) ................................................................. 2-39 iii Hitachi Compute Blade 500 Series EFI User's Guide System Configuration and Boot Management ................................................. 2-39 UEFI setup menu items (CB 520A A1) ................................................................. 2-57 System Configuration and Boot Management ................................................. 2-57 Storage expansion blade settings .................................................................. 2-71 Disable Software RAID ................................................................................. 2-73 UEFI setup menu items (CB 540A A1/B1) ............................................................ 2-74 System Configuration and Boot Management ................................................. 2-74 UEFI setup menu items (CB 520X) ...................................................................... 2-89 System Configuration and Boot Management ................................................. 2-89 Software license information ............................................................................. 2-107 3 MegaRAID WebBIOS for LSI SAS 2008 ................................................ 3-1 Configuration of MegaRAID WebBIOS ................................................................... 3-2 Operation for MegaRAID WebBIOS ....................................................................... 3-2 Starting MegaRAID WebBIOS ............................................................................... 3-4 Window configuration of MegaRAID WebBIOS ....................................................... 3-7 Menu configuration of MegaRAID WebBIOS ........................................................... 3-8 Main menu ................................................................................................... 3-9 Switching display modes .................................................................................... 3-23 Building disk arrays ............................................................................................ 3-24 Building disk arrays ...................................................................................... 3-25 BIOS settings: enabled or disabled ...................................................................... 3-50 Exiting MegaRAID WebBIOS ............................................................................... 3-54 Disk with foreign configuration ........................................................................... 3-56 Status ............................................................................................................... 3-58 Status of the disk array ................................................................................ 3-58 Status of the disk ........................................................................................ 3-58 BIOS messages ................................................................................................. 3-58 4 MegaRAID WebBIOS for storage expansion blades .............................. 4-1 Configuration of MegaRAID WebBIOS ................................................................... 4-2 Operation for MegaRAID WebBIOS ....................................................................... 4-2 Starting MegaRAID WebBIOS ............................................................................... 4-4 Window configuration of MegaRAID WebBIOS ....................................................... 4-9 Menu configuration of MegaRAID