XenServer installation over iKVM and redirected ISO CD-ROM option in JViewer

I've had a problem using my XenServer on VMware Workstation. I needed instead to install it on my dedicated server i have. Some of my notes:

• Enabled iKVM on the server: How to enable IPMI settings in BIOS on Tyan S8225 motherboard.
• In BIOS make sure you have enabled the VGA graphic output and disabled the graphics output on the PCI-X bus (as per  the link above)
• The XenServer installer was not able to recognize my AHCI disk driver so I needed to enable a regular 'Native IDE' driver in BIOS (see screen shots below)
• Disable java security permission in Windows (search for 'configure java' under Windows menu)
• Mount the ISO image from the JViewer (java iKVM from ASUS) restart the server and follow the installation instructions :)
• At the beginning of installation you will see that the phase 'Loading /install.img' is taking very long time. Don't panic, watch the network card stats and wait for the installer to start. It can take even up to 10min.

References

http://www.davethijssen.nl/2013/07/install-citrix-xenserver-62-from-usb.html

How to enable IPMI settings in BIOS on Tyan S8225 motherboard

Often a server that supports IPMI supports as well remote KVM desktop like iKVM. The instruction below describe how to enable IPMI in BIOS for the Tyan S8225 motherboard.

1. Connect keyboard and monitor to our system. Before we can mange our server remotely we need to first set things up using a standard method
2. Get into BIOS





3. Go to advance settings





4. Set a fix IP for your IPMI console on the server








5. Enable remote access





6. Set a primary Video adapter to VGA if you have additional graphic card on broad 





7. Save BIOS changes and start your server
8. When the system boots you should see similar outputs








9. From another PC try to connect to your remote IPMI session by typing http://192.168.0.200 in the browser

The default user/password is root/superuser





10. Open remote iKVM session and if necessary reboot the Tyan server 





11. For better graphic results you can set this options in the JViewer

Howto start Ubuntu installation over IPMI session

A decent IPMI implementation comes not only with an iKVM  (KVM over IP) features but allows you as well to remotely mount local devices.

The software version available for mainboard Tyan S8225 support the following options from the JViewer terminal:

To start a remote installation from a downloaded ISO image all what you need to do is to mount it reboot t he system. Once the system starts it will try to boot from the ISO.

References

http://www.servethehome.com/tyan-ipmi-20-remote-management-webgui-tour/