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Written By: System xVersion: 1.0Last Revised: 03/17/09
Life Without DOSTransitioning to UEFI and IMM
Whiteaer 
 
System x
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Table of Contents
1 INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................................................3
1.1 W
HAT
 
IS
 
CHANGING
?.................................................................................................................................................31.2 D
OCUMENT
O
VERVIEW
..............................................................................................................................................31.3 D
OCUMENT
C
ONTRIBUTORS
........................................................................................................................................5
2 DEFINITIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS................................................................................................................63 SUPPORTED SYSTEMS AND COMPATIBILITY...............................................................................................8
3.1 UEFI A
WARE
O
PERATING
S
YSTEMS
............................................................................................................................83.2 IBM UEFI
AND
IMM B
LADES
 
AND
S
ERVERS
............................................................................................................8
4 DOS BASED TOOLS OVERVIEW.........................................................................................................................9
4.1 C
ONFIGURATION
........................................................................................................................................................94.2 D
EPLOYMENT
.........................................................................................................................................................114.3 U
PDATES
...............................................................................................................................................................114.4 M
ANAGEMENT
........................................................................................................................................................12
5 CONFIGURATION.................................................................................................................................................14
5.1 C
ONFIGURING
BIOS/UEFI S
ETTINGS
......................................................................................................................145.2 C
ONFIGURING
BMC/IMM BMC S
ETTINGS
.............................................................................................................185.3 C
ONFIGURING
RSA II/IMM SP S
ETTINGS
................................................................................................................205.4 C
ONFIGURING
S
TORAGE
S
UBSYSTEM
..........................................................................................................................225.5 C
ONFIGURING
S
YSTEM
 
VIA
PXE B
OOTING
.................................................................................................................25
6 DEPLOYMENT.......................................................................................................................................................29
6.1 D
EPLOYING
 
AN
OS U
SING
S
ERVER 
G
UIDE
S
CRIPTING
T
OOLKITS
....................................................................................29
7 UPDATES.................................................................................................................................................................32
7.1 B
OOTABLE
M
EDIA
..................................................................................................................................................327.2 I
 NDIVIDUAL
U
PDATES
..............................................................................................................................................357.3 R 
EMOTE
B
OOTING
..................................................................................................................................................38
8 MANAGEMENT.....................................................................................................................................................40
8.1 BMC
AND
RSA II................................................................................................................................................408.2 IMM...................................................................................................................................................................42
 
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1Introduction
1.1What is changing?
The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) replacing legacy BIOS is System x’s newinterface between operating systems and platform firmware. UEFI provides a modern, welldefined environment for booting an operating system and running pre-boot applications.Unified Extensible Firmware Interface improvements over legacy BIOS:
•
Advanced Settings Utility (ASU) will now have more complete coverage of system settings.
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On rack mount servers, UEFI Settings can be accessed Out of Band via ASU and theIntegrated Management Module (not available on Blades).
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Adapter configuration can move into F1 Setup, for example iSCSI Configuration is now inF1 Setup and consolidated in to ASU
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Elimination of Beep Codes – All Errors covered by Lightpath
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DOS tools are no longer required or officially supportedThe Integrated Management Module (IMM) service processor provides competitive, standards based systems management enabling upward integration into wide variety of enterprisemanagement environments "out of the box".
Integrated Management Module provides RSA II functionality and Remote Presence in addition to thefollowing new functions:
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Standard CIM and WS-Man interfaces
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OS drivers included in Windows and Linux, no additional device drivers needed
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Single firmware image for IMM across the product set
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Choice of dedicated or shared Ethernet connections
1.2Document Overview
The main purpose of this document is to introduce our new toolset and help our clients transitionaway from using DOS based processes. Our new toolset offers a simplified, consolidated set of tools which eliminate the need for DOS-based utilities. The new tools support configuration andupdates from Windows, Linux and VMware ESX operating systems, and support deploymentusing Linux or WinPE preboot environments. The tools can either be used online (under arunning OS) or in an offline, bootable environment.
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