6.3 HP StoreAll Storage Installation Guide (TA768-96085, April 2013)

IMPORTANT: Use an external USB drive that has external power; do not rely on the USB
bus for power to drive the device.
3. Restart the blade to boot from the DVD-ROM.
4. When the HP Storage screen appears, enter qr to install the software.
Repeat steps 2–4 on each expansion blade.
Use a USB key
1. Copy the ISO to a Linux system.
2. Insert a USB key into the Linux system.
3. Execute cat /proc/partitions to find the USB device partition, which is displayed as
dev/sdX. For example:
cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name
8 128 15633408 sdi
4. Execute the following dd command to make USB the QR installer:
dd if=<ISO file name with path> of=/dev/sdi oflag=direct bs=1M
For example:
dd if=X9000-QRDVD-6.3.72-1.x86_64.signed.iso of=/dev/sdi oflag=direct bs=1M
4491+0 records in
4491+0 records out
4709154816 bytes (4.7 GB) copied, 957.784 seconds, 4.9 MB/s
5. Insert the USB key into the first expansion blade.
6. Restart the blade to boot from the USB key. (Press F11 and use option 3 ).
7. When the HP Storage screen appears, enter qr to install the software.
8. Repeat steps 4 through 7 on each server.
Installing the first expansion blade
To install the first blade in the expansion module, complete these steps:
1. Log into the blade in the first expansion slot. The 9730 Setup dialog box is displayed.
108 Expanding an 9720 or 9320 10GbE cluster by an 9730 module