Acer Altos R920 Series User manual

Altos R920

Installation

Configuration Guide

Abstract

This document provides you a quick OS installation guide on Altos R920,

including Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 x64, Windows Server

2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 Edition, Red Hat Enterprise Linux

5.0 (32-bit & 64-bit), SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (32-bit & 64-bit),

VMware ESX Server 3.5 and SCO UnixWare 7.1.4.

Version 1.2

November 2008

This paper is for informational purposes only. ACER MAKES NO

WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, IN THIS DOCUMENT.

Acer, Acer Altos are registered trademarks or trademarks of

Acer Incorporation.

Other product or company names mentioned herein may be the

trademarks of their respective owners.

INTRODUCTION ...........................................1

HARDWARE SPECIFICATION .................................2

BOARD LAYOUT ...........................................4

System Block Diagram 4

DIMM POPULATION GUIDELINE ..............................5

Memory population 5

Memory population with sparing 5

Memory population with mirroring 6

OS INSTALLATION TIPS ...................................7

Windows Server 2008 Enterprise x64 Edition (with

Integrated SAS Hardware RAID) 8

BIOS Required 8

Drivers Required 8

Software Required 8

Configuring Integrated SAS Hardware RAID 8

Installation Tips 9

Chipset Driver Installation 9

Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation 10

IOAT Driver Installation 10

VGA Driver Installation 10

Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation (I/O Expansion

Module) 10

RAID Utility Installation 10

Network Utility Installation 11

Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition (with Integrated

SAS Hardware RAID) 11

BIOS Required 11

Drivers Required 11

Software Required 12

Configuring Integrated SAS Hardware RAID 12

Installation Tips 12

Chipset Driver Installation 13

Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation 13

IOAT Driver Installation 14

VGA Driver Installation 14

Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation (I/O Expansion

Module) 14

RAID Utility Installation 14

Network Utility Installation 14

Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition (with

Integrated SAS Hardware RAID) 14

Drivers Required 15

CONTENTS

Software Required 15

Configuring Integrated SAS Hardware RAID 15

Installation Tips 15

Chipset Driver Installation 16

Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation 17

IOAT Driver Installation 17

SAS Backplane Driver Installation 18

TPM Driver Installation 18

VGA Driver Installation 19

Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation (I/O Expansion

Module) 19

Microsoft Scalable Networking Pack Installation 20

RAID Utility Installation 20

Network Utility Installation 20

Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (with Integrated

SAS Hardware RAID) 20

Drivers Required 21

Software Required 21

Configuring Integrated SAS Hardware RAID 21

Installation Tips 21

Chipset Driver Installation 22

Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation 23

IOAT Driver Installation 23

SAS Backplane Driver Installation 24

TPM Driver Installation 24

VGA Driver Installation 25

Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation (I/O Expansion

Module) 25

Microsoft Scalable Networking Pack Installation 26

RAID Utility Installation 26

Network Utility Installation 26

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 EM64T (with Integrated SAS

Hardware RAID) 26

Drivers Required 27

Software Required 27

Configuring integrated SAS hardware RAID 27

Installation Tips 27

Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation 28

Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation (I/O Expansion

Module) 28

IOAT driver installation 29

RAID Utility Installation 30

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 (with Integrated SAS Hardware

RAID) 30

Drivers Required 30

Software Required 31

Configuring integrated SAS hardware RAID 31

Installation Tips 31

Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation 32

Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation (I/O Expansion

Module) 32

IOAT driver installation 33

RAID Utility Installation 34

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 EM64T Installation

(with integrated SAS hardware RAID) 34

Drivers Required 34

Software Required 35

Configuring integrated SAS hardware RAID 35

Installation Tips 35

Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation 35

Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation (I/O Expansion

Module) 36

IOAT driver installation 36

RAID Utility Installation 37

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 Installation (with

integrated SAS hardware RAID) 38

Drivers Required 38

Software Required 38

Configuring integrated SAS hardware RAID 38

Installation Tips 39

Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation 39

Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation (I/O Expansion

Module) 39

IOAT driver installation 40

RAID Utility Installation 41

VMware ESX Server 3.5 (with integrated SAS hardware RAID) 41

BIOS Required 41

Drivers Required 41

Configuring integrated SAS hardware RAID 42

Installation Tips 42

Downloading the VMware Infrastructure Client 42

VMware Infrastructure Client Installation on Windows 43

SCO UnixWare 7.1.4 Installation with integrated SAS

hardware RAID) 44

BIOS Required 44

Drivers Required 44

Configuring integrated SAS hardware RAID 45

Installation Tips 45

Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation 45

OS Multiprocessor Support Installation 46

Maintenance Pack 3 Installation 46

APPENDIX A: INTEGRATED SAS HARDWARE RAID CREATION .....47

Configuring Integrated SAS Hardware RAID 47

Starting Integrated SAS Hardware RAID Configuration

Utility 47

Loading Factory Default Setting 47

Creating and Initialing a RAID Volume 47

Assigning a Hot Spare Disk 47

APPENDIX B: INTEGRATED SAS IM CREATION ................49

Configuring Integrated SAS IM 49

Starting Integrated SAS Configuration Utility 49

Creating IM Volume 49

Assigning a Hot Spare Disk 49

1 Altos R920

Installation Configuration Guide

This article describes the Altos R920 Installation

Configuration guide:

•Hardware parts give you a briefly and quick hardware

information about Altos R920

•The operating system installation tips.

INTRODUCTION

Altos R920 Installation Configuration Guide 2

Model Altos R920

Processor •Quad-core Intel Xeon processors

7300 sequence (Tigerton QC) at

1.60Hz or above Frequency

•Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors

7200 sequence (Tigerton DC) at

2.40Hz or above Frequency

Front Side Bus 1066 MHz

Cache •2 x 2MB L2 cache

•2 x 3MB L2 cache

•2 x 4MB L2 cache

Chipset Intel chipset

•North Bridge: Intel 7300

•South Bridge: Intel 6321 (ESB2E)

Memory •Four memory boards

•Four FB-DIMM memory channels

•Eight DIMM sockets per board.

Support 1GB/2GB/4GB FBDIMM DDR2-667

registered with ECC

•Maximum memory of 128GB

•Up to 21 GB/s maximum bandwidth for

FB-DIMM 667

•Support memory sparing and memory

mirroring

Storage Interface •LSI SAS 1078 SAS controller

•Two SATA ports

Expansion Slots •Two hot-plug x8 PCI Express slots

•Two x8 PCI-Express slots

•Three x8 PCI-Express slots (w/ x4

throughput)

VGA Onboard ATI ES1000 video controller w/

32 MB SDRAM

SATA Controller Two SATA port

SAS Controller LSI SAS 1078 8-port controller

•Support RAID 0, 1, and 1E

SAS RAID

Controller Integrated SAS Hardware RAID

•Support RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and

•512MB of cache (DDR2 667

registered)

•BBU support

LAN Controller •Onboard Intel 82563EB Dual port

Gigabit Ethernet Controller

HARDWARE SPECIFICATION

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