windows 2008 on UCS 220 M3

[Purna Wijenayaka]

Hi ,

We are trying to install windows 2008 on UCS 220 M3 , and we do not see any harddisk to install..

How can achieve this ?

Reagards,

Purna

[Jaime Valencia]

Those servers are meant for virtualization, you install any OS over the hypervisor, not on the bare metal.

HTH

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[Anas Abueideh · Accepted solution]

Hi Purna,

you need to configure the RAID to see the HDD. you need to enter the CIMC and web bios to acheive that

HTH

Anas

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[Purna Wijenayaka]

Hi ,

I have created the RAID , and downloaded the following and installed the windows 2008 on UCS 220 M3 ,

http://software.cisco.com/download/release.html?mdfid=284296253&softwareid=283853158&release=1.4%286d%29

the only problem now letf is the network driver is no there in the drivers ios..all other drivers are there....

anyway that we can get the network driver for windows 2008 on UCS 220 M3 ?

Thanks

Purna

[Anas Abueideh · Accepted solution]

Hi,

you can install the drivers from the below link, but I am not sure if the windows drivers in this image

http://software.cisco.com/download/release.html?mdfid=284296253&flowid=31742&softwareid=283853158&release=1.5(1b)&relind=AVAILABLE&rellifecycle=&reltype=latest

also there is something called, cisco driver installer utility, kindly find the below 2 links

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/c/sw/driver/user/guide/3.0/Introduction.html

http://software.cisco.com/download/release.html?mdfid=284296253&flowid=31742&softwareid=283850975&os=Windows&release=1.5.1&relind=AVAILABLE&rellifecycle=&reltype=latest

HTH

Anas

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[Purna Wijenayaka]

Hi ,

Thanks for the info..we have removed the server,opened the cover ....checked for the Network chipset (intel i350 am2 )

and downloaded the windows 2008 driver from the intel site..it is working now..

thanks

for the support..

purna

[Anas Abueideh]

Hi Purna,

it is a good news that you get your server work.

thanks for the rating

regards

Anas