Notes That Apply To Imaging

The notes in this section apply to propagating the golden image to all nodes, which is accomplished when you invoke the startsys command.

As described in “Discovery of HP ProLiant DL140 G3 and DL145 G3 Nodes Fails When Graphics Cards Are Present”, the discovery and imaging processes might fail on HP ProLiant DL140 G3 or DL145 G3 servers containing graphics cards.

The work around for the discovery failure is described in “Discovery of HP ProLiant DL140 G3 and DL145 G3 Nodes Fails When Graphics Cards Are Present”, and the work around for the imaging process described in this section assumes that all nodes were discovered.

Follow this procedure to propagate the golden image to DL140 G3 and DL145 G3 servers containing a graphics card:

Issue the appropriate startsys command and specify one of the DL140 G3 or DL145 G3 nodes with a graphics card in the [nodelist] option of the startsyscommand.
When power to the node is turned on, use the cluster console to connect to the node and force it to PXE boot by pressing the F12 key at the appropriate time during the BIOS start up.
When the node is successfully imaged, repeat this process for the remaining nodes containing graphics cards.
When all nodes containing graphics cards are imaged, issue the startsys command without the [nodelist] option to image all remaining nodes of the cluster in parallel.

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