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WARNING: This server is heavy. To reduce the risk of personal injury or damage to the equipment:
Observe local occupational health and safety requirements and guidelines for manual material
handling.
Get help to lift and stabilize the product during installation or removal, especially when the product is
not fastened to the rails. Hewlett Packard Enterprise recommends that a minimum of two people are
required for all rack server installations. A third person may be required to help align the server if the
server is installed higher than chest level.
Use caution when installing the server in or removing the server from the rack; it is unstable when
not fastened to the rails.
CAUTION: Always plan the rack installation so that the heaviest item is on the bottom of the rack. Install
the heaviest item first, and continue to populate the rack from the bottom to the top.
Procedure
1. Install the server and cable management arm into the rack. For more information, see the installation
instructions that ship with the selected rail system.
2. Connect peripheral devices to the server. For more information, see Rear panel components on page 14.
3. Connect the power cord to the rear of the server.
4. Use the hook-and-loop strap to secure the power cord.
5. Connect the power cord to the power source.
Operating system
This ProLiant server does not ship with provisioning media. Everything required to manage and install the
system software and firmware is preloaded on the server.
To operate properly, the server must have a supported operating system. Attempting to run an unsupported
operating system can cause serious and unpredictable results. For the latest information on operating system
support, see the Hewlett Packard Enterprise website.
Failure to observe UEFI requirements for ProLiant Gen10 servers can result in errors installing the operating
system, failure to recognize boot media, and other boot failures. For more information on these requirements,
see the HPE UEFI Requirements on the Hewlett Packard Enterprise website.
To install an operating system on the server, use one of the following methods:
Intelligent Provisioning—For single-server deployment, updating, and provisioning capabilities. For more
information, see Installing the operating system with Intelligent Provisioning on page 45.
Insight Control server provisioning—For multiserver remote OS deployment, use Insight Control server
provisioning for an automated solution. For more information, see the Insight Control documentation on
the Hewlett Packard Enterprise website.
For additional system software and firmware updates, download the Service Pack for ProLiant from the
Hewlett Packard Enterprise website. Software and firmware must be updated before using the server for
the first time, unless any installed software or components require an older version.
For more information, see Keeping the system current on page 153.
For more information on using these installation methods, see the Hewlett Packard Enterprise website.
44 Setup