HP DL380z Gen8 Virtual Workstation - Manual (Page 4)

4 Setup ............................................................................................................................................................... 30
Optional installation services .............................................................................................................. 30
Optimum environment ........................................................................................................................ 31
Space and airflow requirements ........................................................................................ 31
Temperature requirements ................................................................................................ 32
Power requirements ........................................................................................................... 32
Electrical grounding requirements ..................................................................................... 32
Connecting a DC power cable to a DC power source ....................................................... 33
Rack warnings .................................................................................................................................... 34
Identifying the contents of the server shipping carton ........................................................................ 34
Installing hardware options ................................................................................................................. 34
Installing the server into the rack ........................................................................................................ 35
Installing the operating system ........................................................................................................... 37
Citrix XenServer ................................................................................................................. 37
VMware vSphere ............................................................................................................... 37
Powering on and selecting boot options ............................................................................................. 38
Registering the server ........................................................................................................................ 38
5 Hardware options installation .......................................................................................................................... 39
Introduction ......................................................................................................................................... 39
Memory options .................................................................................................................................. 39
HP SmartMemory .............................................................................................................. 40
Memory subsystem architecture ........................................................................................ 40
Single-, dual-, and quad-rank DIMMs ................................................................................ 41
DIMM identification ............................................................................................................ 41
Memory configurations ...................................................................................................... 42
Advanced ECC memory configuration .............................................................. 43
Online Spare memory configuration .................................................................. 43
Lockstep memory configuration ........................................................................ 43
General DIMM slot population guidelines .......................................................................... 44
Advanced ECC population guidelines ............................................................... 44
Online spare population .................................................................................... 44
Lockstep Memory population guidelines ........................................................... 45
Population order ................................................................................................ 45
Installing a DIMM ............................................................................................................... 45
Hot-plug hard drive options ................................................................................................................ 46
Installing a hot-plug SAS or SATA hard drive .................................................................... 47
Removing a hot-plug SAS or SATA hard drive .................................................................. 48
Controller options ............................................................................................................................... 48
Installing the flash-backed write cache module ................................................................. 49
Installing the flash-backed write cache capacitor pack ...................................................... 50
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