HP Insight Control Server Provisioning 7.3 Update 1 Administrator Guide

5 Special OS and hardware considerations
There are several special cases in Insight Control server provisioning that need to be treated
individually if you have particular kinds of servers or specific OS releases. If you have one of these
special-case servers or OS releases, you will need to do something tailored for your situation to
make your build plan run.
In addition, there are limitations you need to know about if you have specific kinds of network
hardware.
Use the information in this chapter when you are getting ready to do your installation to see if you
need to do anything special to make your build plan work.
• “Working with UEFI capable servers” (page 26)
• “Making the SLES11 SP2 OS Build Plan work properly on ML310e Gen8 v2 and DL320e
Gen8 v2 servers” (page 27)
• “Network hardware exceptions” (page 27)
• “RHEL5.x OS Build Plan special configuration for SAN multipath” (page 28)
• “RHEL 6.3 OS deployments with iSCSI or FCoE require special configuration of kickstart file”
(page 28)
• “Special configuration for servers with B120i and B320i controllers ” (page 28)
Working with UEFI capable servers
The ProLiant DL580 Gen8Plus is the first ProLiant server that will support UEFI.
UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) defines a software interface between an operating
system and platform firmware and is an alternative to the Legacy BIOS (Basic Input/Output System)
firmware interface that has been in use for many years.
You can use IC server provisioning to provision UEFI capable servers in either Legacy BIOS boot
mode or UEFI boot mode.
The HP-provided Build Plans have been modified in 7.3.1, as needed, to work in either Legacy
BIOS boot mode or UEFI boot mode. The default is Legacy BIOS boot mode. There are two
HP-provided Build Plans that allow you to set the boot mode on a server:
• ProLiant HW – Switch to Legacy BIOS boot mode and Power Off
• ProLiant HW – Switch to UEFI boot mode and Power Off
See the HP Insight Control Server Provisioning Build Plans Reference Guide for more information
on these Build Plans. There is also a ProLiant HW — Clear UEFI Boot Menu build plan.
Once you set the boot mode on a server using one of these Build Plans, you typically won’t have
to run these Build Plans again, unless you decide to install an OS that is not supported in that boot
mode and requires a different boot mode. If you plan on installing different OSs on a server, each
which requires a specific boot mode, you can add one of these Build Plans to the beginning of an
OS installation job to ensure that the boot mode has been set correctly for the OS Build Plan you
want to run (see the online help topic “Combine multiple build plans to perform many tasks at
once”).
The ProLiant HW – Switch to UEFI boot mode and Power Off Build Plan sets the boot mode to UEFI
with optimized enabled, which provides improved boot time. To disable UEFI optimization, you
can make a copy of the Build Plan and change the parameters from
--bootmode=UEFI_OPTIMIZED to --bootmode=UEFI. Programmatically setting UEFI secure
boot is not supported on the ProLiant DL580 Gen8Plus servers.
Some OSs may not support the UEFI boot mode, and some OSs may support the UEFI boot mode,
but not if optimized is enabled, for example. Therefore, some OS Build Plans can only be run in
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