Recently, an enterprise database server has failed many times: the client PC runs the ERP software, prompting that the connection database is in error and cannot be started normally. When checking the server, the system and database related files are lost. After manually backing up the data, reinstalling the database software still cannot solve the problem. After repeated checks and confirmations, it is suspected that the operating system file is corrupted or lost, causing the server-side database to fail.
author proposes to back up stored data, the server re-install the operating system of thought, by the relevant person in charge of consent. Start to back up the server data, and ask the person in charge of the enterprise to provide the server to purchase random software and server operating system wizard installation disk. Since the server has been purchased for 4 to 5 years, the random CD, the manual, and the person in charge of the management have lost the work many times. The IT leader of the company has been looking for a long time and only found one Windows 2000 Server operating system installation CD. !
I blindsided the spot, based on past experience similar to the vendor server installation, this server should sell random with two discs: one operating system installation guide for the operating system installed (using the Wizard CD-ROM Start the automatic copy of the driver files and operating system installation files), a set of disk arrays for the IBM server Raid Support CD. Without these two wizard CDs, if you want to successfully install the operating system for this server, is it a test for the author?
What should I do? The author's view of the current configuration of the server, consider for a moment, decided to use the Windows 2000 Server installation CD to start the installation routine, and with the installation a great deal of preparatory work:
I. Preparing for Installation work
1, carefully understand the type of server, hardware configuration: a close look at the server, it basically clears the configuration of the server as follows:
server models: IBM xSeries 225
CPU: Intel Xeon 2.8G
Memory: DDR 1GB
Hard disk: three 36GB SCSI hot swap hard disk (Raid5 array)
CDROM: 48X CD drive
Floppy drive: 1.44M
disk controller card: onboard memory LSI Logic 1020/1030 Utra320 SCSI controller card
Adaptec AHA-2940 PCI SCSI controller card
IBM ServeRAID 4Lx control card
server which is particularly important, the author Analyze some special configuration of the server on the data storage server: the server made a Raid5 array to the disk through the IBM ServeRAID 4Lx control card, Adaptec AH The A-2940 SCSI controller card external interface is connected to a tape drive for backup of user documents.