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|  IBM(R) ServerGuide(TM)                                        |
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|     read the general information under "NOTICES AND TRADEMARKS"|
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|  Updated   20 Aug 2012                                         |
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CONTENTS

1.0  About this readme file

2.0  ServerGuide Architecture versions

3.0  Remote Installs Support

4.0  Supported hardware and operating systems

5.0  Packaged Device Driver

6.0  Limitations

7.0  Support Web sites

8.0  Notices and trademarks

9.0  Other vendor software


1.0  ABOUT THIS README FILE
---------------------------

IBM ServerGuide reduces the complexity of server deployment by
detecting installed options and providing device drivers. The
ServerGuide wizard detects the server model and installed
adapters; then, the wizard guides you through setup,
configuration, and network operating system (NOS) installation.


2.0  ServerGuide Architecture versions
--------------------------------------

This ServerGuide support Windows 2012 only. There is one version of IBM
ServerGuide available from the WEB.

o  IBM ServerGuide Setup and Installation x86-64

   -  Supports the installation of 64bit Windows Server 2012 operating systems
      in either legacy or native uEFI mode to IBM System x and BladeCenter
      servers.

   -  Automatically detects whether to install in legacy mode or native
      uEFI mode depending on the server's settings.


The supported systems of this IBM ServerGuide are listed in IBM ServerGuide page.


3.0  Remote Installs Support
----------------------------

o  Remote Installs are supported using the Remote Supervisor
   Adapter II (RSA II), Integrated Management Module (IMM),
   BladeCenter Management Module (MM), and BladeCenter
   Advanced Management Module (AMM).

o  Remote Install Limitations:
  - For MM only, the left button mouse function doesn't
    work with a single click.  The workaround is to use double click to
    to do selections in ServerGuide graphical user interface.
  - The same CD/DVD Drive used for ServerGuide CD needs to be use
    for Windows CD/DVD.

o  Instructions for running ServerGuide via remote disk feature:

NOTE: These directions are written for RSAII/AMM/MM. Steps to install via
	recently updated AMMs and iMMs may differ slightly.


1  Install Java(TM) Plug-in and disable cache for Web Browser Java plug-in
    to enable remote console to work.
2  Connect to the RSAII,MM,or AMM Web Management Interface (via Web browser)
3  Click on Task "Remote Control"
4  Start Remote Control, it will open second Web Browser Window
5  Make sure the target System is Powered Off
6  Make sure the target System's CD/DVD drive is empty
7  Mount the ServerGuide CD
    Click "Select File..." to load the IBM ServerGuide ISO image.
      or
    Click CD/DVD Drive to use IBM ServerGuide CD.
8  Add to the list of Devices with button ">>"
9  Select ServerGuide ISO Image or CD/DVD drive
10 Check box "Write Protected"
11 Push button "Mount Drive"
12 Power on the System
13 When the system is booting up, place the mouse in the center of the screen
    until ServerGuide's Language selection screen comes up.  If you have
    mouse synchronization problems, move the mouse to one of the corners.
15 Follow IBM ServerGuide prompts
16 When asked to insert the Windows OS CD/DVD, unmount the remote disk drive,
    insert Windows CD/DVD, click "Mount Drive" and  then click Next.
   NOTE:  Windows 2008 ISO images are not supported at this time.
17 When the IBM ServerGuide process finishes, unmount the
    Windows OS CD/DVD and click Next.


4.0  SUPPORTED HARDWARE AND OPERATING SYSTEMS
---------------------------------------------
This ServerGuide supports Windows 2012 only. You can use ServerGuide to deploy 
the English, (Simplified) Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, 
and Swedish language versions of Microsoft Windows operating systems.

4.1 RAID adapters supported by ServerGuide

The following list of RAID adapters are supported for installation
with ServerGuide:

  -  (44E8700) ServeRAID BR10i
  -  (49Y4731) ServeRAID BR10il
  -  (81Y4492) ServeRAID H1110
  -  (46M0831) ServeRAID M1015
  -  (81Y4448) ServeRAID M1115
  -  (46M0916) ServeRAID M5014
  -  (46M0829) ServeRAID M5015
  -  (46M0830) ServeRAID M5025
  -  (81Y4484) ServeRAID M5100 RAID 5 Cache/Upgrade
  -  (81Y4487) ServeRAID M5100 RAID 5 Flash/Upgrade
  -  (81Y4559) ServeRAID M5100 1GB Flash/RAID5
  -  (ROMB   ) ServeRAID M5110e
  -  (81Y4483) ServeRAID M5110e(C1)
  -  (90Y4390) ServeRAID M5115
  -  (81Y4478) ServeRAID M5120
  -  (43W4296) ServeRAID MR10i
  -  (90Y4422) ServeRAID C100
  -  (46M0907) IBM 6GB SAS HBA
  -  (46M0912) IBM 6Gb Perf Optimized HBA
  -  (44E8700) IBM 3GB SAS HBA
  -  LSI SAS 2004


4.2 Fibre adapters supported by ServerGuide

The following lists of Fibre adapters are supported by ServerGuide.

  -  4Gb  (39R6525) QLogic 4Gb FC Single-Port HBA
  -  4Gb  (39R6527) QLogic 4Gb FC Dual-Port HBA
  -  4Gb  (42C2069) Emulex 4Gb FC Single Port HBA
  -  4Gb  (42C2071) Emulex 4Gb FC Single Port HBA
  -  4Gb  (59Y1987) Brocade 4Gb FC Single Port HBA
  -  4Gb  (59Y1993) Brocade 4Gb FC Single Port HBA
  -  8Gb  (42D0485) Emulex 8Gb FC Single Port HBA
  -  8Gb  (42D0494) Emulex 8Gb FC Dual Port HBA
  -  8Gb  (42D0501) QLogic 8Gb FC Single-port HBA
  -  8Gb  (42D0510) QLogic 8Gb FC Dual-port HBA
  -  8Gb  (46M6049) Brocade 8Gb FC Single-port HBA
  -  8Gb  (46M6050) Brocade 8Gb FC Dual-port HBA
  -  8Gb  (95Y2375) IBM Flex FC3052 8Gb Dual FC
  -  8Gb  (69Y1938) IBM Flex FC3172 8Gb Dual FC
  -  10Gb (42C1820) Brocade 10Gb FCoE Dual Port
  -  10Gb (42C1800) Qlogic 10 Gb Dual Port CNA
  -  10Gb (81Y1650) Brocade 10 Gb Dual Port CNA
  -  10Gb (42C1830) Qlogic 10 Gb Dual Port CNA
  -  10Gb (90Y3554) Emulex 10Gb Quad Port CNA
  -  16Gb (81Y1655) Emulex 16Gb FC Single-port HBA
  -  16Gb (81Y1662) Emulex 16Gb FC Dual-port HBA
  -  16Gb (81Y1668) Brocade 16Gb FC Single-port HBA
  -  16Gb (81Y1675) Brocade 16Gb FC Dual-port HBA
  -  16Gb (88Y6370)  IBM Flex FC5022 16Gb Dual FC- Chinook


5.0  Packaged Device Driver
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*---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*
|         Driver Description                                        Driver Package                      OS      Arch  |
*---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*


6.0  LIMITATIONS
----------------
The following limitations are applicable to this version of IBM ServerGuide:

o  ServerGuide does not support the use of the following 
   SWRAID Server Adapter (ServerRaid C105, 90Y4386/90Y4430).
o  The system will not reboot automatically after OS installation complete, 
   need to manually reboot the system.
o  One final reboot is recommended to finish hardware installation after the
   Windows installation completes . For instance, yellow exclamation marks may
   be present on the Intel(R) Ethernet Mezzanine Adapter due to the device
   driver being unable to start. This issue is resolved by a reboot.   
o  A yellow exclamation mark may be present next to IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers
   when there is no physical internal DVD drive connected. Despite the warning, 
   the device is still functioning properly.  
   
   To solve this problem, 
   from uEFI setup, change the mode from AHCI to IDE as below.
        * Goto uEFI setup (F1)
        * System setttings
        * Device & I/O Ports
        * Configure the onboard SATA   <Select IDE>  
        * Save and reboot. 
o  When using ServerGuide in a multi-node server configuration, the
   server summary report screen does not indicate a multi-node
   configuration.  However, the number of processors reported will
   be consistent with the hardware.
o  ServerGuide does not support installing to any USB storage device or running
   from a USB flash memory drive.
o  When installing to drives attached to an IBM iSCSI Server TX adapter
   (30R5201), you may not be able to create a 100 GB partition.
   The workaroud is to create a partition of a different size (eg 110 GB).
o  Partitioning screen appears to hang
   When using ServerGuide to partition disks of 300 GB or larger, the
     partitioning may take 15-20 minutes for the process to complete.
o  Critical Error during RAID Configuration
   While performing RAID configuration on adapters with previous raid
   configurations, the process may fail with a critical error.
   To resolve this problem, click back and retry the RAID configuration or
   click Exit to restart the server and retry ServerGuide installation.
o  "No operating system found" during Windows 2012 installation
   When performing a Windows installation, ServerGuide attempts to install
     Windows to the first disk on the system presented by the diskpart command
     line utility.
   Due to limitations of the system, when multiple storage adapters are
     present on the system, the first disk presented by the diskpart utility
     is not always the first disk on the system.
   To avoid this problem, please remove any or all storage adapters
     that are not required for the Windows installation.
o  Windows Server 2012 x64 requires 1024 MB or greater of system memory.
o  A popup may be displayed while ServerGuide is running stating "You must restart your computer
   to apply these changes.  Before restarting, save any open files and close all programs."  If this
   occurs, click the button labeled "Restart Later" and continue the installation with ServerGuide.
o  ServerGuide may present a message stating that there was an internal error with "savestat /reset" on
   some uEFI systems with older uEFI versions.  To prevent this, make sure your uEFI levels are updated to
   the latest version.  If the error is displayed on the last screen of ServerGuide before the reboot into
   the unattended portion of the OS installation, it will not have any adverse effects on the completion
   of the OS installation.
o  When using ServerGuide to perform RAID configuration, a best practice is to ensure that all the disks connected
   to the RAID controller are the same size.
o  While performing a Windows installation you might encounter the following error message:
   "Windows cannot locate the disk and partition specified in the unattend answer file's <ImageInstall> setting".
   This error can occur for different reasons including the installation drive having previously been formatted as a
   GPT drive or having a different OS previously installed on the system.
   
   To resolve this issue, first restart the system and retry the Windows installation.
   If this does not resolve the issue then delete all partitions and formatting on the drives in the system and retry the Windows installation.
   If this does not resolve the issue, and the system has multiple storage adapters,
   please see the next limitation for additional steps to try.
o  When performing a Windows installation, ServerGuide attempts to install Windows on the
   first disk of the system presented by Microsoft's diskpart utility.
   Due to the limitations of the system, when multiple storage adapters are present on the
   system, the first disk presented by the diskpart utility is not always the the first disk on the system.
   To avoid this problem, please remove all storage adapters and/or disks that are
   not required for the Windows installation.
o  Since ServerGuide 8.50, a new feature Flexible Machine Type support provided:
   when target system has a supported Platform ID but a unsupported Machine Type, after boot up with SG,
   you will be have a warning that their system has unsupported machine type but still can proceed the deployment.
   However, you need to reselect Machine Type after reboot the system using Flexible Machine Type feature.
o  You might need to change the Lun discovery at Brocade bios (Ctrl+b or Alt+b) to "Flash Values" or "FirstLUN" first
   when deploying Windows OS in legacy boot mode to external storage device connected via Broadcade 16Gb Fibre Channel Mezz card.
o  ServerGuide only can support 'United States' keyboard layout, even if you select other keyboard layout in the step 'Localization'.


7.0  SUPPORT WEB SITES
----------------------

The following Web pages provide resources for understanding,
using, and troubleshooting IBM deployment and systems-management
software:

o  IBM Remote Deployment Manager page

   http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/xseries/systems_management/
   ibm_director/extensions/rdm.html

   This Web page provides an overview of IBM Remote Deployment
   Manager.

o  IBM ServerGuide page

   http://www-947.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/docdisplay?lndocid=SERV-GUIDE

   This Web page provides an overview of ServerGuide.

o  IBM ServerGuide Scripting Toolkit page

   http://www-947.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/docdisplay?lndocid=SERV-TOOLKIT

   This Web page provides an overview of the ServerGuide Scripting
   Toolkit.

o  IBM ServerProven(R) page

   http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/info/x86servers/serverproven/compat/us/

   This Web page provides compatibility information about
   hardware, software, and middleware.

o  IBM Support page

   http://www.ibm.com

   This is the IBM Support Web site for IBM hardware and
   systems-management software.

o  IBM systems management solutions for System x

   http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/x/solutions/management/resources/index.html

   This Web page provides entry for IBM systeam management solution for System x.
 

8.0  NOTICES AND TRADEMARKS
---------------------------

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By installing, copying, accessing, or using the Program, you agree to
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uninstall the software and return it to IBM or the reseller from whom
you acquired the software for a refund, if any.

Additional licenses are included with each System Enablement Pack
located in the \sgdeploy\updates\uxsp\ibm_utl_tsep*.zip.

This information could include technical inaccuracies or
typographical errors. Changes are periodically made to the
information herein; these changes will be incorporated in new
editions of the publication. IBM may make improvements and/or
changes in the product(s) and/or the program(s) described in this
publication at any time without notice.

The following terms are trademarks of the IBM Corporation in the
United States, other countries, or both:

BladeCenter
eServer
IBM
Netfinity
ServerGuide
ServerProven
ServeRAID
xSeries

Adaptec and HostRAID are trademarks of Adaptec, Incorporated, in
the United States, other countries, or both.

Intel, Intel Inside (logos), MMX and Pentium are trademarks of
Intel Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both.

Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds in the United States, other
countries, or both.

Microsoft and Windows are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in
the United States, other countries, or both.

Red Hat, the Red Hat "Shadow Man" logo, and all Red Hat-based
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Red Hat, Inc., in the United States and other countries.

Other company, product, or service names may be trademarks or
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(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1996 - 2012. All rights reserved.

Note to U.S. Government Users Restricted Rights -- Use,
duplication, or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract
with IBM Corp.


9.0  OTHER VENDOR SOFTWARE
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This readme file contains license information and notices related
to certain Third Party Code contained in this product.