Dell PowerVault 745N - Manual

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Dell™ PowerVault™ 745N Systems
Information Update
This document updates information in your Dell PowerVault 745N NAS Systems Administrator’s
Guide on the following topics:
• Booting from the software-RAID NAS system mirror hard drive
• Using the NAS reinstallation console
• NIC connections during operating system reinstallation
• Backing up your system
Booting from the Software-RAID NAS System Mirror Hard
Drive
When booting from the recovery operating system (volume D:) hard drive as described in "Booting
From the Software-RAID NAS System Recovery Operating System Mirror Hard Drives" in the
Administrator’s Guide, two boot partition choices will be displayed when the system is restarted.
No action is required; after 30 seconds, the system will automatically boot to the Microsoft
®
Windows
®
Server 2003 Standard Edition operating system.
Using the NAS Reinstallation Console
When using the NAS reinstallation console to reinstall the operating system image as described in
"Installing the Reinstallation Console on a System Running Windows 2000, Windows 2003, or
Windows XP" in the
Administrator’s Guide, do not open additional instances of the reinstallation
console window. If you close any of the additional reinstallation console windows, all configuration
files being used by the console will be deleted and the reinstallation will fail.
NIC Connections during Operating System Reinstallation
If you are reinstalling the operating system on your NAS system, the NIC connection in position 1
(NIC 1) must be the
only NIC connection in use. No other NICs can be connected while you are
reinstalling the operating system. For more information, see "Reinstalling the Operating System on
Your NAS System" in the
Administrator’s Guide.
June 2005