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Deployment infrastructure – HP ProLiant BL25p G2 Server-Blade User Manual

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Deployment infrastructure

To establish a network-based PXE deployment infrastructure, provide the following software and minimum

hardware:

Client PC (administrative workstation)

AMD Athlon™ XP processor (700 MHz or greater recommended), AMD Athlon™ 64 processor,

or Intel® Pentium® III or higher processor (700 MHz or greater recommended)

128 MB of RAM

Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Professional or Microsoft® Windows® XP OS

Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5.5 or above with 128-bit encryption

Ethernet NIC with 10/100 RJ-45 connector

TCP/IP networking and an IP address compatible with one of the following: the iLO 2 Diagnostic

Port IP address or an assigned DHCP or static IP address

CD-ROM drive and/or diskette drive

Any of the following Java™ Runtime Environment versions:
1.3.1_02
1.3.1_07
1.3.1_08
1.4.1 for Windows® users only
1.4.2 for Linux users only
Access the Java™ Runtime Environment versions at the HP website

(

http://java.sun.com/products/archive/index.html

).

DHCP server (IP address assignment)

AMD Athlon™ XP processor (700 MHz or greater recommended), AMD Athlon™ 64 processor,

or Pentium® or Pentium® II 200-MHz or faster processor

64 MB of RAM

64 MB of free hard drive space

10-Mb/s network adapter

PXE deployment server (storing boot images)

AMD Athlon™ XP processor (700 MHz or greater recommended), AMD Athlon™ 64 processor,

or Intel® Pentium® III or higher processor (500 MHz recommended)

256 MB of RAM

10-Mb/s network adapter

CD-ROM drive

NFS repository server (only required for Red Hat Linux deployment)

Red Hat Linux 7.2 OS installed

Network connection

CD-ROM drive

NFS installed

1.5 GB of available disk space

Windows® repository server (only required for Windows® deployment)

Windows® 2000 or Windows® 2003 OS installed

Network connection

CD-ROM drive