= 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