Dell PowerVault 745N Using a Dell PowerVault 745N with a Dell EMC AX100 or - Page 1

www.dell.com | support.dell.com Dell™ PowerVault™ 745N Systems Information Update This document updates information in your Dell PowerVault 745N NAS Systems Administrator's Guide on the following topics: • Booting from the software-RAID NAS system mirror hard drive • Using the NAS reinstallation console • NIC connections during operating system reinstallation • Backing up your system Booting from the Software-RAID NAS System Mirror Hard Drive When booting from the recovery operating system (volume D:) hard drive as described in "Booting From the Software-RAID NAS System Recovery Operating System Mirror Hard Drives" in the Administrator's Guide, two boot partition choices will be displayed when the system is restarted. No action is required; after 30 seconds, the system will automatically boot to the Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Standard Edition operating system. Using the NAS Reinstallation Console When using the NAS reinstallation console to reinstall the operating system image as described in "Installing the Reinstallation Console on a System Running Windows 2000, Windows 2003, or Windows XP" in the Administrator's Guide, do not open additional instances of the reinstallation console window. If you close any of the additional reinstallation console windows, all configuration files being used by the console will be deleted and the reinstallation will fail. NIC Connections during Operating System Reinstallation If you are reinstalling the operating system on your NAS system, the NIC connection in position 1 (NIC 1) must be the only NIC connection in use. No other NICs can be connected while you are reinstalling the operating system. For more information, see "Reinstalling the Operating System on Your NAS System" in the Administrator's Guide. June 2005