On the remote PC, open a browser window. Enter the IP
address or the DNS name of the Integrity system's
iLO management processor (MP) as the browser Address. Log in to iLO
by entering your User Name and Password, and then selecting Sign In. (Initially, iLO is configured with
the default login user/password pairs of Admin/Admin and Oper/Oper.
Password protected user accounts can be configured and assigned levels
of access.)
Select the Virtual
Devices tab. Select Virtual Media from the left navigation bar. Make sure you have a green Status
light reading, “vMedia is available.”
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Select Launch to load
the vMedia applet. The vMedia feature of iLO requires a Java Plug-in.
See the HP Integrity iLO 2 Operations Guide, available at http://www.docs.hp.com for detailed
information on iLO vMedia.
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Select Local Media
Drive and then select the correct DVD drive from the pull-down.
Click Connect. You should get a green
light beside the virtual drive, as shown below.
Reboot the Integrity system from its console, interrupt
the boot process, and then add a boot option for vMedia. The console EFI menu sequence for adding a vMedia boot option follows.
Select Boot Option Maintenance Menu from the EFI Boot Manager.
Select Add a Boot Option.
Select the PC DVD vMedia device from the list of available volumes.
The vMedia device will appear to be local to the Integrity system.
Enter any description of the boot option you prefer. Then, enter N (No BootOption) as the BootOption Data Type.
Save the new boot option by entering Y at the “Save changes to NVRAM” prompt.
Return to the main menu by selecting Exit.
Return to the boot option menu by selecting Exit from the main menu.
Make sure there is bootable media in the vMedia PC DVD
drive and then select the boot option you just created. If you are
going to use an Ignite-UX server to do the installation, the version
of Ignite-UX on the boot media must match the version on the Ignite-UX
server.
The system then boots from the vMedia
DVD as shown below. Depending on network performance, using vMedia
can take longer than using physically local DVD media .
The client system then boots to Ignite.
Select Install HP-UX.
Now that the Integrity system has been booted with HP-UX,
it is time to install the HP-UX system software. When possible, switch
to install from an Ignite-UX server since vMedia installations can
take significantly longer than direct media or network-based installations.
To install from a server, select Ignite-UX server
based installation and Advanced Installation from the User Interface and Media Options screen.
Using vMedia with DVD installation media and ISO images
If you would like to continue using vMedia for the installation,
select Media only installation from
the User Interface and Media Options screen. For installations that
require multiple DVDs, simply eject the finished DVD from the remote
system and replace it with the next DVD. If you are using an ISO image
with vMedia, select a new image file using Connect. You should only select Disconnect from the vMedia applet when you are completely finished using vMedia
since it frees vMedia for use by others.
Select OK and continue
the configuration. When the configuration is complete, select Go!.
When you are finished using the iLO vMedia device, select Disconnect and close the applet. This is important,
as it allows others to use vMedia.
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