HP Insight Control Software for Linux - Manual (Page 5)

8.3.1 Opening network ports on managed systems............................................................78
8.3.2 Resolving host names on the CMS..........................................................................78
8.3.3 Installing additional components of the PSP..............................................................79
8.3.4 Configuring agents and HP SIM SSH keys...............................................................79
8.3.5 Configuring console access and logging.................................................................82
8.3.6 Turning on password authentication .......................................................................84
8.4 Next steps..................................................................................................................84
9 Installing operating systems on managed systems......................................85
9.1 Linux OS installation overview........................................................................................85
9.1.1 Interactive versus unattended installations..................................................................85
9.1.2 Supported operating systems...................................................................................86
9.1.3 Installing other Linux operating systems.....................................................................86
9.2 Using installation configuration files for unattended installations.........................................86
9.2.1 Naming conventions for installation configuration files................................................87
9.2.2 Customizing installation configuration files...............................................................88
9.2.3 Installation configuration files for custom operating systems.........................................89
9.2.4 Configuring an operating system for console redirection............................................90
9.3 Prerequisites to OS installations on managed systems........................................................91
9.3.1 Additional prerequisites for certain ProLiant servers....................................................92
9.4 Installing RHEL on managed systems...............................................................................93
9.4.1 Installing RHEL using an unattended method.............................................................93
9.4.2 Installing RHEL interactively....................................................................................93
9.5 Installing SLES on managed systems................................................................................95
9.5.1 Installing SLES using an unattended method..............................................................95
9.5.2 Installing SLES interactively.....................................................................................95
9.5.3 Required kernel parameters for installing x86 SLES operating systems on various
servers.........................................................................................................................95
9.6 Installing VMware ESX and VMware ESXi operating systems..............................................96
9.6.1 Installing a VMware ESX or ESXi OS using a Kickstart file...........................................96
9.6.2 Installing a VMware ESX or VMware ESXi OS interactively.........................................97
9.7 Installing another variant of Linux on managed systems.....................................................99
9.8 Generic procedure for installing an OS on one or more managed systems.........................100
10 Capturing and deploying Linux images................................................103
10.1 Overview of capturing and deploying Linux images ......................................................103
10.1.1 File system types.................................................................................................104
10.1.2 Precapture and postcapture scripts.......................................................................104
10.1.3 Predeployment, postdeployment, and final deployment scripts..................................105
10.2 Prerequisites to capturing a Linux image......................................................................105
10.3 Capturing a Linux image from a managed system.........................................................108
10.4 Preparing for scalable deployment..............................................................................109
10.5 Deploying a captured Linux image to one or more managed system................................112
10.6 Insight Control for Linux partition wizard overview.........................................................115
10.6.1 Partition wizard requirements and guidelines.........................................................115
10.6.2 Using the partition wizard..................................................................................116
11 Installing and setting up virtual machines..............................................118
11.1 Installing virtual hosts.................................................................................................118
11.2 Registering the virtual host with Insight Control virtual machine management.....................119
11.3 Creating and installing virtual guests............................................................................120
11.3.1 Guidelines for configuring a VMware ESX or VMware ESXi virtual guest....................120
11.3.2 Guidelines for configuring a KVM virtual guest......................................................121
11.3.2.1 Installing a RHEL KVM virtual guest...............................................................121
11.3.2.2 Installing a SLES KVM virtual guest...............................................................123
11.3.3 Guidelines for configuring a Xen virtual guest........................................................124
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