Sun Microsystems Sun Fire X4500 Manual
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- Page 1 Sun Fire ™ X4500 Server Guide for Preinstalled Solaris ™ Operating System Sun Microsystems, Inc. www.sun.com Part No. 819-7148-12 February 2007, Revision A Submit comments about this document at: http://www.sun.com/hwdocs/feedback...
- Page 2 Copyright 2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc., 4150 Network Circle, Santa Clara, California 95054, États-Unis. Tous droits réservés. Sun Microsystems, Inc. a les droits de propriété intellectuelle relatants à la technologie qui est décrite dans ce document. En particulier, et sans la limitation, ces droits de propriété...
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Contents Preface v Configuring the Preinstalled Solaris Operating System 1 Before You Begin 2 Gathering Information for the Installation Worksheet 2 Finding the IO Board and SP MAC Addresses 2 Configuring the Preinstalled Solaris Operating System 6 To Connect to the Server Using the Service Processor’s IP Address 6 To Redirect the Console Output to the Video Port (Optional) 8 To Connect to the Server Using a Terminal Program 8 Using the Solaris Installation Program 10... - Page 4 Important Solaris OS Installation and Bootable Hard Disk Drive Guidelines ▼ To Determine the Bootable Disks and to Reinstall Solaris OS 15 Solaris OS Training 16 Installing Other Operating Systems 17 Sun Fire X4500 Server Guide for Preinstalled Solaris 10 OS • February 2007...
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Page 5: Preface
Zettabyte File System (ZFS), go to the sites listed in the following table. For a list of documents in the Sun Fire X4500 documentation set, see the Where to Find Sun Fire X4500 Server Documentation on the first web site listed below. - Page 6 Please include the title and part number of your document with your feedback: Sun Fire X4500 Server Guide for Preinstalled Solaris 10 OS, part number 819-7148-12 vi Sun Fire X4500 Server Guide for Preinstalled Solaris 10 OS • February 2007...
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Page 7: Configuring The Preinstalled Solaris Operating System
Configuring the Preinstalled Solaris Operating System This chapter walks you through the steps for configuring the Solaris Operating System (OS) that has been preinstalled on your Sun Fire X4500 Server. ® Note – Unlike with SPARC systems, you will not see most of the output of the pre- installed Solaris 10 image through a monitor when you power on the server. -
Page 8: Before You Begin
Return it to the closed position when you are done. Sun Fire X4500 Server Guide for Preinstalled Solaris 10 OS • February 2007... - Page 9 Worksheet for Installation TABLE 1-1 Your Answers: Information for Installation Description or Example Defaults (*) Language Choose from the list of available languages for the English* Solaris 10 software. Locale Choose your geographic region from the list of available locales. Terminal Choose the type of terminal that you are using from the list of available terminal types.
- Page 10 Provide the following information about your LDAP profile: Profile name: Profile server: If you specify a proxy credential level in your LDAP profile, gather this information: Proxy-Bind Distinguished Name: Proxy-Bind Password: Sun Fire X4500 Server Guide for Preinstalled Solaris 10 OS • February 2007...
- Page 11 Worksheet for Installation (Continued) TABLE 1-1 Your Answers: Information for Installation Description or Example Defaults (*) Default route Do you want to specify a default route IP address, • Specify One or let the Solaris installation program find one? • Detect One The default route provides a bridge that forwards •...
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Page 12: Configuring The Preinstalled Solaris Operating System
Power-On Self-Test (POST) messages appear on your screen as the OS boots. b. Initialize the BIOS Setup utility by pressing the F2 key while the system is performing the POST. The main BIOS screen is displayed. Sun Fire X4500 Server Guide for Preinstalled Solaris 10 OS • February 2007... - Page 13 c. Select Advanced. The Advanced screen is displayed. d. Select IPMI 2.0 Configuration. The IPMI 2.0 Configuration screen is displayed. e. Select the LAN Configuration menu item. f. Select the IP Address menu option. The service processor’s IP address is displayed using the following format: Current IP address in BMC: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 2.
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Page 14: To Redirect The Console Output To The Video Port (Optional)
The default settings are 9600 baud, 8N1 (eight data bits, no parity, one stop bit), no flow control. 3. Start a terminal program to connect to the serial console: On a client running Solaris OS, type: Sun Fire X4500 Server Guide for Preinstalled Solaris 10 OS • February 2007... - Page 15 $ tip -9600 /dev/ttyx where is a, b, and so on. On a client running Windows, start a program such as HyperTerminal. On a client running Linux, start a program such as Minicom, a text-based serial communication program that is included in the Linux distributions. For more information, see the man pages included in the Linux distribution.
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Page 16: Using The Solaris Installation Program
In addition to this software, Sun™ N1 System Manager is shipped on DVD, which is enclosed in the system box. Online documentation for this software can be found at: Sun Fire X4500 Server Guide for Preinstalled Solaris 10 OS • February 2007... -
Page 17: Sun Java Enterprise System
http://docs.sun.com/ Sun Java Enterprise System Sun Java Enterprise System (Java ES) is a set of software components that provide services needed to support enterprise-strength applications distributed across a network or Internet environment. Sun Studio 11 Sun Studio 11 includes high-performance, optimizing C, C++, and Fortran compilers for the Solaris OS on SPARC and x86/x64 platforms, plus command-line tools and a NetBeans-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for application performance analysis and debugging of mixed source language applications. -
Page 18: After Installation
From the Downloads section of the following web site: ■ http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4500/support.xml For more information about the utility, see the Sun Fire X4500 Administration Guide. If you reinstall the Solaris 10 operating system, you will need to use the pkgadd command to reinstall the hd utility. -
Page 19: Reinstalling The Solaris Operating System
Reinstalling the Solaris Operating System If you want to reinstall Solaris or to install a different version of Solaris, you can install the OS in one of several ways, including by DVD and network (using Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE)). For step-by-step procedures, see the book, Solaris 10 Installation Guide: Basic Installations. - Page 20 Thus, you must identify the bootable disk during the installation procedure. The Sun Fire X4500 Server comes with six controllers, each supporting up to eight SATA drives, for a total of 48 SATA drives. Before you reinstall the Solaris OS, you...
- Page 21 ▼ To Determine the Bootable Disks and to Reinstall Solaris OS This procedure assumes you are running the Solaris Installation Program and you are reinstalling the Solaris 10 operating system. 1. From the Solaris Installation Program, choose the installation type. From the Solaris Installation Program, you should see a screen similar to this: Select the type of installation you want to perform: 1 Solaris Interactive...
- Page 22 The training options include instructor-led, web-based online, CD-ROM and Live Virtual classes. For Solaris 10 Training and Certification options at a glance, please visit: http://www.sun.com/training/catalog/solaris10.html Sun Fire X4500 Server Guide for Preinstalled Solaris 10 OS • February 2007...
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Page 23: Installing Other Operating Systems
Installing Other Operating Systems For information on installing other operating systems, see the following: Sun Fire X4500 Server Windows and Linux OS Supplement ■ Sun Fire X4500 Server OS Installation Guide ■ Sun Fire X4500 Server Windows OS Installation Guide ■... - Page 24 Sun Fire X4500 Server Guide for Preinstalled Solaris 10 OS • February 2007...
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