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# OOBE
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- iDrac prefers DHCP if available, the default IP address for IDRAC is 192.168.0.120
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- The server shipped with raid5 configured across the 4 drives, I delete the raid configuration by going to storage -> virtual disks -> manage
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- The disk failed to delete the first time and second time
- Problem resolved itself by rebooting
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## Installing XCP-NG
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I do not have a monitor with VGA display output, and you need an iDrac enterprise to install an OS through iDrac, so I'm installing with an unattended installer via an [answer file ](https://xcp-ng.org/docs/answerfile.html#answer-file-values ).
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- I had trouble mounting the .iso file in macos, so I ended up extracting it with
```
7zz x -tiso -y xcp-ng-8.2.1.iso -oxcp-ng-8.2.1
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```
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The `install.img` extraction instructions were a bit hard for me to understand, here's what I figured out.
- `iso/` is the directory you extracted the ISO into
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- You make the `install` directory in the `iso` dir.
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The ISO packing instructions are *super* dated, you'll want `xorrisofs` instead of whatever they have.
I never got the unattended install to work, I believe it's because I was creating the ISO on MacOS.
- The install was completed with a trial license of iDrac Enterprise and the virtual console.
Initially the installer didn't detect any drives, that's because the RAID controller was in RAID n
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# Installing Xen Orchestra
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- Run `bash -c "$(wget -qO- https://xoa.io/deploy)"` to spin up a VM running Xen-Orchestra, sign in to all of that, yada yada yada.
- Make an account on the xen-orchestra website, you can leave the company name blank
