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1. Open your web browser, enter the IP address or hostname of the server’s IPMI, and log in to the server's IPMI using your credentials.

   

2. Load the DVD/ISO image into the virtual drive using the 'Remote Control' option from the left side menu of the IPMI dashboard.

   

3. Click 'Launch Console' to launch the IPMI remote console.

   

   A similar warning message may appear regarding the certificate. If so, click Continue, then Run.

   

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5. Now, you will see the console screen. Click Virtual Media → Virtual Storage to load the DVD ISO image.
   

   

6. Select the logical drive type as 'ISO image'. Click Open Image to provide the path to the DVD ISO image.

   

7. From the file explorer browse, select the downloaded ISO file and click Open.
   

   

8. After selecting the DVD ISO image, click OK.

   

9. Once the DVD ISO image is loaded into the virtual drive, the next step is to select the boot medium in the BIOS menu. Choose the virtual drive as the boot device. This ensures that when the server starts, it will boot from the DVD ISO image.

   

10. In the BIOS menu, change the boot order or priorities. Ensure that the Virtual Media is set as the first choice by moving the Virtual CDROM option to the top of the list. Upon rebooting, the system will quickly pick the virtual CDROM as the booting device.
    

    

11. After selecting the booting device, save the BIOS changes and reboot the system.

    

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1. Press the down key, and a drive list will appear. Choose a disk with a size between 500 GB and 1 TB. This is required to create 4 logical disk partitions. The first 3 partitions will be automatically created by the installer (/, /boot, /boot/efi), and the fourth one (/var) we will create manually in the same volume group.
   

   

2. Select a drive with the required size (between 500 GB to 1TB) and select ‘Done’; 3 partitions will be created.

   

3. Three partitions have been created: /, /boot, and /boot/efi. The / partition is very small, so let's increase its size to 300 GB.

   

4. To change the size of the / partition, go down to the menu. Under 'DEVICE', select “new, to be formatted as ext4, mounted at /” and then Edit. Use the right arrow key to navigate to 'Edit' and press 'Enter'.

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5. A volume resize screen will appear. Change the size from 100 GB to 300 GB and select Save.
   

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1. create the 4th partition /var from the remaining space on the drive (ubuntu-vg). We will not use the complete remaining space for the /var volume; leave some space for future growth in case we need to expand the / or /var volume. To create the new volume, select and create Logical volume from free space under 'DEVICE' and ubuntu-vg (new).
   

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7. To create the 4th partition, enter the volume size, select the format type as ext4, set the mount point/type to /var, and then select 'Done'.
   

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8. Now, create the 5th partition using another disk. Swarm Containers will use this partition. The partition needs to be quite large. Before creating the logical partition, Create the volume group vg0. To create the volume group, go down and select Create volume group.
   

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9. A pop-up window will appear. Assign a name to the volume group (VG), such as "vg0", select a sufficiently large disk to create the volume group, then go to the Create button and press Enter.
   

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10. Now, a new volume group, "vg0", has been created which displays the available free space to create a logical partition.
    

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11. Let's create the 5th logical partition using the entire available free space.
    

    

12. A pop-up window will appear. Select xfs from the Format menu option and /var/lib from the Mount menu option. This will dedicate all the available free space to "/var/lib," where the containers reside. Enter the maximum size displayed on the screen.
    

    

13. A warning appears stating that the disk will be formatted for OS installation. Click Continue to proceed.
    

    

User Creation

Please provide the following information to set up a user profile and select Done.

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5. Sit back and relax while the operating system is being installed.
   

   

6. After a successful installation, the system will attempt to eject the virtual CD-ROM. If it fails, you can safely ignore it.
   

   

7. Reboot the server using the IPMI console. Within a few minutes, the server will reboot completely and the login screen will display. You can now log in to the system and start using it.
   

   

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