Installation Manual

Virtual Media operating system information......................................................................................232
Operating system USB requirement............................................................................................232
Configuring Windows 7 for use with iLO Virtual Media with Windows 7.....................................232
Operating system considerations: Virtual Floppy/USB key.........................................................233
Changing diskettes.................................................................................................................233
Operating system considerations: Virtual CD/DVD-ROM...........................................................233
Mounting a USB Virtual Media CD/DVD-ROM on Linux systems..........................................234
Operating system considerations: Virtual Folder ........................................................................234
Using Virtual Media from the iLO web interface...............................................................................234
Viewing and modifying the Virtual Media port.............................................................................234
Viewing local media.....................................................................................................................235
Local media details................................................................................................................235
Ejecting a local media device......................................................................................................235
Connecting scripted media..........................................................................................................235
Viewing connected scripted media..............................................................................................236
Scripted media details............................................................................................................236
Ejecting scripted media...............................................................................................................236
Remote Console Virtual Media.........................................................................................................236
Virtual Drives...............................................................................................................................236
Using a physical drive on a client PC.....................................................................................236
Using an image file.................................................................................................................237
Using an image file through a URL (IIS/Apache)...................................................................237
Using the Create Media Image feature (Java IRC only)..............................................................237
Creating a disk image file.......................................................................................................237
Copying data from an image file to a physical disk................................................................238
Using a Virtual Folder (.NET IRC only)........................................................................................238
Virtual folders.........................................................................................................................238
Setting up IIS for scripted Virtual Media...........................................................................................239
Configuring IIS.............................................................................................................................239
Configuring IIS for read/write access..........................................................................................239
Inserting Virtual Media with a helper application.........................................................................240
Sample Virtual Media helper application.....................................................................................240
Virtual Media Boot Order..................................................................................................................241
Configuring the server boot mode...............................................................................................242
Configuring the server boot order................................................................................................242
Changing the one-time boot status.............................................................................................243
Changing the one-time boot status in Legacy BIOS mode....................................................243
Changing the one-time boot status in UEFI mode.................................................................244
Using the additional options........................................................................................................244
20 Using the power management features........................................................245
Server power-on with iLO 4..............................................................................................................245
Brownout recovery............................................................................................................................245
Graceful shutdown............................................................................................................................245
Power efficiency................................................................................................................................246
Power-on protection..........................................................................................................................246
Power allocation (blade servers)......................................................................................................246
Managing the server power..............................................................................................................247
Virtual Power Button options.......................................................................................................247
Configuring the System Power Restore Settings.............................................................................248
Auto Power-On settings...............................................................................................................248
Power-On Delay settings.............................................................................................................249
Viewing server power usage.............................................................................................................249
Power meter graph details...........................................................................................................249
Power meter graph display options.............................................................................................250
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