Wave nf5280m3 Installing Windows Server R2 considerations

Recently, a unit has purchased several wave nf5280m3 servers, each configured with 2 e5-2630 CPUs, 16GB of memory, and 5 2.5-inch 600GB SAS hard drives. After the server is in place, there was a problem installing Windows Server R2, either booting the installation using the Windows Server R2 installation CD (due to a driver without NF 5280m3 in the Windows R2 installation CD), Or the use of Wave Rui Jie system installation, after the completion of the first step of operation, can not boot.

I went to the scene, first into the RAID card configuration interface, found that the RAID configuration is not a problem, 5 hard disk to do RAID5, divided the two logical disk, the 1th block 147GB, 2nd block 2TB. Then enter the CMOS settings, check the CMOS settings, and no problem (change Uefi to Legacy boot), the server still does not boot.

I started with Windows Server R2 CD-ROM, the random RAID card driver was not WHQL certified, and then use the Wave Rui Jie CD installation success, the resolution steps are recorded below.

One, the driver has not been WHQL certified

NF 5280m3 uses a "6605/6605 Q" RAID card, the Windows Server R2 installation CD does not integrate this driver, the wave random drive disc with Windows Server R2 and Windows Server R2 drivers, but this driver is not WHQL certified by Microsoft. For a RAID card, if it is not WHQL certified, the system cannot be installed on the disk when the operating system is installed.

(1) Start with the Windows Server R2 installation CD, do not find the hard disk, click "Load Driver", in the "Load Driver" dialog box, click the "Browse" button. At this point, remove the Windows Server R2 installation CD from the CD, insert the Wave random Band of the RAID card driver CD, browse to select the driver folder, as shown in 1-3.

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Figure 1-3 Navigating the driver

(2) After browsing the driver location, may return to the installation interface, and then reload the driver, in order to appear "Select the driver to install", click the "Next" button to complete the driver loading.

(3) After the driver is loaded, you can "recognize" the disk, but at this point the installer prompts you not to install Windows to this disk, as shown in 1-5.

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Figure 1-5 Unable to install Windows to this disk

In Figure 1-5, "Disk 0" is 146.5GB, which is the 1th logical volume divided by the raid card, which we have planned. However, if you start with the disc again, load the RAID card driver, then sometimes "Disk 0" is 2048GB, is the RAID card partition of the 2nd logical volume, which is different from what we planned. I think this may be a bad result of the vendor-supplied RAID card driver compatibility. In addition, when the hint in Figure 1-5 appears, according to my experience, the current RAID card driver may not be WQL certified.

Ii. Division of a Logical Volume installation system success

Since the normal use of Windows Server R2 CD-ROM boot cannot install the system, at this time consider using the wave server with the "Smart System Intelligent Installation Software" installed Windows Server R2, installation of the main steps:

(1) Optical drive Insert "Rui Jie system intelligent installation Software" installation CD, restart the server, select Install Windows Server R2, after making the necessary configuration, swap into the Windows Server R2 installation CD, the wizard replicates the Windows Server R2 the installation file, then eject the disc, restart the computer, "smart system Intelligent Installation Software" wizard interface 1-7 is shown.

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Figure 1-7 Installation Wizard

(2) But after the wizard installation is complete, it still cannot be started.

Later I thought, since the wave randomly with the configuration CD, it should be possible to install the system, but following the wizard configuration, can not be started, it may be our steps and the manufacturer's experiment or test environment is different. And the only difference might be that we split two logical volumes with RAID cards, and the vendor might have tested a logical volume. With this in mind, I re-started with the "Smart Install software" software CD, and divided the 5 hard disks into a RAID5 volume and then copied the Windows Server R2 installation files to successfully complete the installation.

(3) During installation, the Installation Wizard prompts "Windows cannot verify the publisher of this driver software" prompt and also verifies that the original Guess-raid card driver was not WHQL verified. 1-8, select "Always install this driver software" to complete the driver loading and operating system installation.

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Figure 1-8 Installing the driver

Third, if there is no wizard CD how to install the system

If your server is your own configured RAID card, but you do not have a similar wave "Rui Jie system Smart installation Software" CD, how to install Windows 2008 or 2012? At this time we can use a "compromise" method, you can have a common hard disk on your server, such as a 300G SATA or a 60 to 120GB SSD, you can install the operating system on this separate hard disk, after installing the operating system, and then install the RAID card driver , as in figure 1-6, ignoring the WHQL signature, the disk configured by the RAID card is available as a data disk. This is because drivers that are not WHQL-certified cannot be ignored while the system is installed, but can be ignored after the system installation is complete.

This article from "Wang Chunhai blog" blog, declined reprint!

Wave nf5280m3 Installing Windows Server R2 considerations