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- iDrac prefers DHCP if available, the default IP address for IDRAC is 192.168.0.120
- The server shipped with raid5 configured across the 4 drives, I delete the raid configuration by going to storage -> virtual disks -> manage
- The disk failed to delete the first time and second time
- Problem resolved itself by rebooting
Installing XCP-NG
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.
- 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
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- You make ``