In the Dell PowerEdge SC1435 servers delivered July 2008, there are several BIOS settings that need to be frobbed on setup. in the setup screen at F2: - CPU -> Virtualization Technology: on - Boot Sequence: disable NIC - Integrated Devices -> Embedded Gb NIC: turn off PXE in the setup screen for remote management, at Ctrl-E: - IP is (main IP) =~ s/18.181.0/10.5.128/ e.g. 10.5.128.221 for citadel-station == 18.181.0.221 - netmask is 255.255.0.0 These settings are reflected in the basic screen of xvm-host-2 and the remote-management screen of xvm-host-1. At time of writing, the basic settings on xvm-host-1 may differ, and the remote-management settings on xvm-host-2 are disabled. xvm-host-3 has IPMI-over-LAN enabled in the Ctrl-E screen. xvm-host-4 remains unconfigured. In the debian installer: - 500M for /boot in raid1 of sda1, sdb1 - rest for LVM in raid1 of sda2, sdb2 - 50G / - 25G swap - install a vanilla kernel, not xen; will install xen hypervisor from backports in our later custom install.