Installing The Oracle Solaris Operating System; Before You Begin - Oracle X5-2 Installation Manual

Installing the Oracle Solaris Operating System

This section describes how to install the Oracle Solaris operating system on the Oracle Server
X5-2.
Description
Preinstallation requirements.
Using Oracle System Assistant to install the Oracle
Solaris operating system.
Using media to install the Oracle Solaris operating
system.
Related Information
"About Oracle Solaris Operating System Installs" on page 9
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"Verify the UEFI Optimal Defaults" on page 24
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"Configuring RAID" on page 29
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Before You Begin

Ensure that the following requirements are met:
If you want to configure RAID (redundant array of independent disks) on the server's
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storage drives, you must do so before you install the operating system. For instructions
for configuring RAID, refer to
Server X5-2 Installation Guide
Note -
manage your storage drives, you must create a RAID volume and make it bootable before
installing the operating system; otherwise, the HBA will not be able to identify the server's
storage drives.
"Configuring Server Drives for OS Installation" in Oracle
If you are using the Oracle Storage 12 Gb/s SAS PCIe RAID HBA Internal to
Links
"Before You Begin" on page 31
"Installing Oracle Solaris on a Single System Using Oracle
System Assistant" on page 32
"Installing the Oracle Solaris 11.2 (With SRU5 or Later) on
a Single System Manually" on page 36
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