Virtual Media
Virtual Media includes a Virtual USB Floppy, a CD-ROM image and Drive Redirection.
Figure 11-1 shows the Virtual Media GUI. The Virtual Media Status section displays the current virtual device status. There are two virtual drives available.
Floppy Image Upload allows the user to upload a floppy image as "floppy" located at the remote host. The floppy image uploaded shall be in binary format with a maximum size of 1.44MB. It will be loaded to the IPMI card and emulated to the host as a USB device.
CD-ROM Image on Windows Share allows the user to configure Windows Share settings. It allows you to decide how you want to share the data stored in your shared folder with the remote hostˇ¦s users.
Drive Redirection makes local drives accessible for other users via console redirection. This function allows you to share your local drives (floppy, CD-ROM and HDDs) with users on remote systems.
Figure 11-1
Floppy Image Upload
As shown in Figure 11-2, click ˇ§Open Fileˇ¨ to select the file that you wish to upload to the host drive selected. Click ˇ§Uploadˇ¨ to upload the floppy image. Please wait for the upload to complete. The virtual floppy will be activated after the floppy image is uploaded.
Figure 11-2
CD-ROM Image on Windows Share
Please refer to Figure 11-3 for the following items.
Drive: Specify the drive that you want to remote host to share.
Share Host: Key in the IP Address or the name of the system you wish to share data with via Windows Share.
Share Name: Key in the name for the shared data in the remote host.
Path to Image: Key in the location of the source file that you wish to share via Windows Share.
User/Password (Optional): Key in the user and password for the person to access the data that you want to share and click the "Set" button shown in Figure 11-3 to enter your selections.
Figure 11-3
Drive Redirection
As shown in Figure 11-4, Drive Redirection supports both local drive and ISO file. Clicking on the ˇ§Connect Driveˇ¨, a dialog will show up as figure 11-5.
Local Drive List: This box displays a list of local drives available for remote access. Select from the list a local drive that you want to make accessible for a remote server.
Refresh List: Click this button to refresh the local drive list.
Write Support: Check this button to allow the remote operating system to have write access to the drive that you have selected. This function allows a user to alter, overwrite, erase and destroy data stored in the drive selected. This feature should only be used with non-critical data.
Once select the drive then click ˇ§OKˇ¨ to start direct redirection.
The second type of drive redirection is ˇ§Connect ISOˇ¨. You may redirect ISO file directly from your file system. Clicking on this button, then select an ISO file to start this function.
Figure 11-4
Figure 11-5
Stop Active Drives
As shown in Figure 11-6, click ˇ§Stop Drive 1ˇ¨ to disable Drive 1 and Click ˇ§Stop Drive 2ˇ¨ to disable Drive 2. The Refresh button is used for refreshing the Virtual Media status. If you want to stop or change the type of a virtual drive, you first need to stop it.
Figure 11-6