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Operating system deployment issues

Use this information to troubleshoot issues that you might encounter when you attempt to deploy operating systems to managed servers from Lenovo XClarity Administrator.

For general issues that are related to operating-system deployment, see Cannot deploy an operating system.

  • Status reporting issues during OS deployment
    Use this information to troubleshoot issues with status reporting by Lenovo XClarity Administrator during operating-system deployment.
  • Cannot deploy an operating system
    Use this information to troubleshoot general issues that you might encounter when you attempt to deploy an operating system to a managed server from Lenovo XClarity Administrator.
  • Cannot import a file into the OS-images repository
    Use this information section to troubleshoot issues that you might encounter when you attempt to import files into the Lenovo XClarity Administrator image repository.
  • OS installer cannot find the disk drive on which you want to install
    For servers that include software RAID adapters (such as 110i AnyRAID Adapter, ServeRAID C100 or C105 adapter, and Intel RSTe SATA Software RAID adapter), when the SATA adapter is enabled in the management controller, the SATA mode must be set to AHCI.. Other modes (such as RAID and IDE) are not supported for software RAID by RHEL, SUSE, VMware or Windows operating systems.
  • OS installer cannot boot on a ThinkServer server
    For ThinkServer servers, the Storage OpROM Policy on the ThinkServer Management Module must be set to UEFI Only for the OS installer image to boot correctly. If the policy is set to Legacy Only, the OS installer will not boot.
  • VMware ESXi deployment issues
    Use this information to troubleshoot issues that you might encounter when you attempt to deploy VMware ESXi operating systems to managed servers from Lenovo XClarity Administrator.
  • Red Hat and SUSE Linux deployment issues
    Use this information to troubleshoot issues that you might encounter when you attempt to deploy Red Hat and SUSE Linux operating systems to managed servers from Lenovo XClarity Administrator.
  • Microsoft Windows deployment issues
    Use this information to troubleshoot issues that you might encounter when you attempt to deploy Microsoft Windows to managed servers from Lenovo XClarity Administrator.