= Bios Changes = We make the following changes to our server Bios/Startup configurations: * Redirect output to serial console * For Dell * Serial Communication: * Serial Communication: On with Console Redirection via COM1 * Redirection after boot: disabled * Ensure virtualization is enabled (Process settings) * Ensure that the disks that are installed are detected * Boot settings: Only booting from disk * Disabled PXE option from Integrated Devices * Do not report keyboard errors * Disable F1/F2 prompt on error * AC Power recovery (either last or on) With Dells - hitting F10 brings up the Unified Server Congifurator which runs hardware diagnostics and other Enterprise crap we don't need. BMC Firmware: hit ctl-e to change the configuaration. * System Services: disabling this setting turns off the F10 menu item (we left it enabled) * LAN User Configuration - Account Access: we changed to disabled and IMPI LAN privilege to No Access to prevent it from trying to get a IP address * Scroll to bottom - IPV4 - disable