Cisco Prime and UCS 220M3

Dear folks,
I have a confusion in one of my deployments. My client ordered initially a UCS 220M3 server, which came along with a windows CD. It was supposed to be used as an LMS 4.1 server. Later on there were some variation and customer wants to have prime infrastructure over it. Now I am unable to understand how to do it. The server which came doesnt have any OS. It has one 600 GB hard drive. Can anyone guide me what should i do / or order additionally to work out through this. I am pasting the BoQ for this server which is the original one before variation, the task is to make it work with Prime Infrastructure. Along with this i am attaching some snaps of the physical server and CIMC console...just to clear out any doubts... i will be very thankful if you suggest me the correct way.
Part Number
NMS
LMS-4.1-100-K9
Cisco Prime LMS 4.1 Base DVD - 100 device license
1
R200-BUN-4
UCS C200 M2 Rack Svr 1x E5506 1x4GB 1PS
1
A01-X0113
2.13GHz Xeon E5506 80W CPU/4MB cache/DDR3 800MHz
1
A02-M304GB2-L
4GB DDR3-1333MHz RDIMM/PC3-10600/single rank/Low-Dual Volt
2
R200-D1TC03
Gen 2 1TB SAS 7.2K RPM 3.5in HDD/hot plug/C200 drive sled
1
CAB-9K10A-UK
Power Cord 250VAC 10A BS1363 Plug (13 A fuse) UK
2
R2X0-PSU2-650W-SB
650W power supply w/added 5A Standby for UCS C200 or C210
1
MSWS-08R2-ENHV-RM
Windows Svr 2008 R2 EN (1-8CPU 25CAL) Media
1
R2X0-ML002
LSI 1064E (4-port SAS 3.0G RAID 0 1 1E ) Mezz Card
1
A01-X0113
2.13GHz Xeon E5506 80W CPU/4MB cache/DDR3 800MHz
1
N01-M304GB1
4GB DDR3-1333MHz RDIMM/PC3-10600/dual rank 1Gb DRAMs
1
R2X0-PSU2-650W-SB
650W power supply w/added 5A Standby for UCS C200 or C210
1
R2XX-G31032RAIL
Rail Kit for UCS C200 C210 Rack Servers (23.5 to 36)
1
R200-BBLKD
HDD slot blanking panel for UCS C200 M1 Rack Servers
3
R200-BHTS1
CPU heat sink for UCS C200 Rack Server
2
R200-PCIBLKF1
PCIe Full Height blanking panel for UCS 200 M1 Rack Server
2
R200-PCIBLKL1
PCIe Low Profile blanking panel for UCS 200 M1 Rack Server
1
R200-SASCBL-001
Internal SAS Cable for a base UCS C200 Server
1
CON-UCW5-R200BN4W
UC PLUS 8X5XNBDOS UCSC200M2RckSvr 1x E5506 1x4GB 1PS
1

You have the necessary CPU, memory and hard drive specifications for an Express size installation (Reference).
To install Prime Infrastructure 2.0 you will need to first install VMware ESX/ESXi. This is documented in the same Getting Started Guide I linked to above at this link.
Once you get that far along, just follow the setup wizard and installation is pretty simple.
FYI you will get better attention to Prime questions over in the Network Management forum.

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Cisco expert Jason Davis will discuss Cisco’s network management products offered under the Cisco Prime framework. If you have questions about Cisco Prime infrastructure or data center automation with our Cisco Prime Service Catalog and Process Orchestrator solutions, join us on the Cisco Support Community.
Jason Davis is a distinguished services engineer in the Intelligent Infrastructure Practice team of Cisco Advanced Services. His role is to provide strategic and tactical consulting for hundreds of Advanced Services customers, lead service innovation, and assess new services and technologies. Jason's primary expertise areas are in network management systems, intelligent automation, virtualization, data center operations, software-defined networking, and network programmability.
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