Information About Hardware; Hardware Issues And Workarounds; Booting Multiple Systems From A Single J4200 Jbod Storage Array - Sun Microsystems SPARC Enterprise M8000 Product Notes

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Information About Hardware

This section describes the special instructions and the issues about the SPARC
Enterprise M8000/M9000 server hardware.
"Hardware Issues and Workarounds" on page 17
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"Hardware Documentation Updates" on page 19
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Hardware Issues and Workarounds

Booting Multiple Systems From a Single J4200
JBOD Storage Array
Sun Storage J4200 SAS JBOD arrays have six general-purpose SAS connectors. With
FW version 3A32 or higher, each of them can be connected to separate SAS initiators,
therefore up to six systems can be connected to the array. Each system can use a
different disk on the array as its boot device. J4200 arrays have 12 disks, so each boot
device can be mirrored for higher reliability. J4200 arrays can be configured into
multiple zones to provide a more secure environment.
For related information, see Sun StorageTek Common Array Manager Software
documentation, at:
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/prod/stor.arrmgr#hic
See especially:
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Sun StorageTek Common Array Manager Software Release Notes 6.4.1
Sun StorageTek Common Array Manager User Guide for Open Systems
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