Sun Fire V20z and Sun Fire V40z Servers--User Guide

This chapter contains an overview of the Sun Fire V20z and Sun Fire V40z servers.

This chapter contains the following sections:

• Section 1.1, Safety Guidelines
• Section 1.3, Overview of the Sun Fire V20z Server
• Section 1.4, Overview of the Sun Fire V40z Server
• Section 1.5, Shared Features of the Sun Fire V20z and Sun Fire V40z Servers
• Section 1.6, Additional Options and Customer-Replaceable Components
• Section 1.7, Field-Replacement Units

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1.1 Safety Guidelines

You can safely connect the Sun Fire V20z and Sun Fire V40z servers to an IT Power System.

• English: The earthed-style attachment plug on the power-supply cord requires the socket outlet to be an earthing type.
• Finnish: Laite on liitettävä suojamaadoituskoskettimilla varustettuun pistorasiaan.
• Norwegian: Apparatet må tilkoples jordet stikkontakt.
• Swedish: Apparaten skall anslutas till jordat uttag.

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1.2 User Documentation

For the most up-to-date user documentation, for both the Sun Fire V20z and Sun Fire V40z servers, visit the following web site:

http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs/Servers/x64_servers/v20z_v40z/index.html

To verify whether a document on the site is more recent than the document that you have, refer to the final two digits (the dash-roll) of the part number for that document or review the release date of the document.

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1.3 Overview of the Sun Fire V20z Server

The Sun Fire V20z is an AMD Opteron processor-based enterprise-class server. It is a 1 rack unit (1U) 2-processor (2P) system. The Sun Fire V20z provides performance and value to an enterprise environment, offering significantly better performance than current 32-bit x86-based solutions. The balanced server design maximizes overall performance through industry-leading I/O options, and delivers compelling real-world workload performance.

The Sun Fire V20z server includes an embedded service processor (SP), flash memory, RAM, a separate Ethernet interface, and server-management software. It comes equipped with server-management tools for greater control and minimum total cost of ownership. You can use the command-line interface or SNMP integration with third-party frameworks to configure and manage the platform with the SP. The dedicated SP provides complete operating-system independence and maximum availability of server management.

1.3.1 Applications

The Sun Fire V20z server is ideal for the following applications:

• Web or application hosting
• High-performance compute clusters
• Remote server installations
• Database workloads
• Corporate data centers

1.3.2 Sun Fire V20z Features

TABLE 1-1 lists the main features of the Sun Fire V20z server.

1.3.3 Sun Fire V20z Server Hardware System Orientation

Before performing any service procedures, become familiar with the physical orientation and features of your Sun Fire V20z server.

1.3.3.1 Sun Fire V20z Front and Back Panels

FIGURE 1-1 shows the front panel of the Sun Fire V20z server.

FIGURE 1-1 Front Panel of the Sun Fire V20z Server

Refer to Section 1.5.1.2, Operator Panel for more information about the operator panel.

FIGURE 1-2 shows the back panel of the Sun Fire V20z server.

FIGURE 1-2 Back Panel of the Sun Fire V20z Server

Ethernet Port Labeling

It is important to note the labeling of the Ethernet ports on the back panel of the Sun Fire V20z server. As shown on the far right side of the server illustrated in FIGURE 1-2, interfaces eth1 and eth0 are labeled as “1” on the upper port and “0” on the bottom port, respectively.

PCI Slot Labeling

The PCI slots are labeled on the server back panel as PCI O (next to the power supply) and PCI 1 (between the SP and platform Ethernet ports). See FIGURE 1-2.

• The slot on the motherboard that corresponds to PCI 0 is identified by the silk-screen label “Slot 2 133MHz.”
• The slot on the motherboard that corresponds to PCI 1 is identified by the silk-screen label “Slot 1 66MHz.”

1.3.3.2 Sun Fire V20z System Components

FIGURE 1-3 shows the locations of the components inside the Sun Fire V20z chassis.

FIGURE 1-3 Location of System Components in the Sun Fire V20z Server

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1.4 Overview of the Sun Fire V40z Server

The Sun Fire V40z server is an AMD Opteron processor-based enterprise-class server. It is a 3 rack unit (3U) 4-processor (4P) system. The Sun Fire V40z server provides performance and value to an enterprise environment, offering significantly better performance than current solutions. The AMD Opteron processor implements the x86 64-bit architecture. In addition, it delivers significant memory capacity and bandwidth, with twice the memory capacity and up to three times the memory bandwidth of existing 32-bit x86 servers.

The Sun Fire V40z server includes an embedded service processor (SP), flash memory, RAM, a separate Ethernet interface, shadow password support, and server-management software. It comes equipped with server-management tools for greater control and minimum total cost of ownership. You can use the command-line interface or SNMP integration with third-party frameworks to configure and manage the platform with the SP. The dedicated SP provides complete operating-system independence and maximum availability of server management.

The Sun Fire V40z supports dual-core CPUs. Dual-core processors double the server’s processing capability without increasing the power and cooling expenses of the server.

1.4.1 Applications

The Sun Fire V40z server is ideal for the following applications:

• Web or application hosting
• High-performance compute clusters
• Remote server installations
• Database workloads
• Corporate data centers

1.4.2 Sun Fire V40z Features

TABLE 1-2 lists the main features of the Sun Fire V40z server.

1.4.3 Sun Fire V40z Server Hardware System Orientation

Before performing any service procedures, become familiar with the physical orientation and features of your Sun Fire V40z server.

1.4.3.1 Sun Fire V40z Front and Back Panels

FIGURE 1-4 shows the front panel of the Sun Fire V40z server.

FIGURE 1-4 Front Panel of the Sun Fire V40z Server

Refer to Section 1.5.1.2, Operator Panel for more information about the operator panel.

FIGURE 1-5 shows the back panel of the Sun Fire V40z server.

FIGURE 1-5 Back Panel of the Sun Fire V40z Server

Ethernet Port Labeling

It is important to note the labeling of the Ethernet ports on the back panel of the Sun Fire V40z server. Referring to the platform Gigabit Ethernet ports at the right edge of the chassis (see FIGURE 1-5), the lower Ethernet interface is eth0 and the upper interface is eth1.

1.4.3.2 Sun Fire V40z System Components

FIGURE 1-6 shows the locations of the components inside the Sun Fire V40z chassis.

FIGURE 1-6 Sun Fire V40z System Components

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1.5 Shared Features of the Sun Fire V20z and Sun Fire V40z Servers

1.5.1 Server Management

Strong server-management capabilities are crucial to maintaining mission-critical servers. Advance notification of problems and rapid diagnosis and correction are critical functions within an environment in which a few servers bear most of the workload. These servers and their extensive server-management capabilities lower costs by reducing failure and potentially eliminating hands-on management.

1.5.1.1 Service Processor

These servers include a dedicated service processor (SP) for complete operating-system independence and maximum availability of server management. The SP is an embedded PowerPC that provides the following:

• Environmental monitoring of the platform (such as temperatures, voltages, fan speeds and panel switches)
• Alert messages when problems occur
• Remote control of server operations (boot, shutdown and reboot of the server’s operating system, turning the server’s power on and off, stopping the server’s boot process in BIOS, and upgrading the BIOS)

The SP runs an embedded version of Linux software, and all the server-management functions are developed as standard Linux applications. Its sole purpose is to support server management; therefore, the full functionality of the operating system is not available in the SP. Many familiar applications, such as FTP and Telnet, are not provided as they are not required to support the server-management feature set.

1.5.1.2 Operator Panel

You can use the operator panel to configure network settings for the service processor.

• FIGURE 1-1 shows the operator-panel location on the Sun Fire V20z front panel.
• FIGURE 1-4 shows the operator-panel location on the Sun Fire V40z front panel.

The drivers for the server must be installed to access the menu options displayed on the operator panel. Some operator-panel menus are only functional under these conditions:

• An external file system is configured with the Network Share Volume (NSV).
• The SP update server from the NSV machine is available.
• The NSV machine has Java runtime environment 1.4.2 (or later) installed on it.

The liquid-crystal display (LCD) panel on the operator panel displays menu options with Menu: appearing in the first line and the menu option in the second line. When no menu option is available, the first line displays SP information, such as the IP address, and the second line provides platform information. For example:

123.45.67.89 OS running 

TABLE 1-3 shows the operator-panel buttons that are used to navigate through the menu options.

The Back/No and Forward/Yes buttons automatically scroll, repeating the action as long as the button is pressed. After the button is pressed a few seconds, auto scrolling begins and rapidly increments or decrements the value.

If a menu or data-entry screen displays for more than 30 seconds with no action taken, the menu or data entry is cancelled and the display returns to the idle/background state.

TABLE 1-4 lists the operations you can perform from the operator panel.

1.5.1.3 Front and Back Panel LEDs

TABLE 1-5 describes the functions of the LEDs on the front panel of the server and TABLE 1-6 describes the functions of the LEDs on the back panel.

• Refer to FIGURE 1-1 and FIGURE 1-2 for the locations of these LEDs on the Sun Fire V20z server.
• Refer to FIGURE 1-4 and FIGURE 1-5 for the locations of these LEDs on the Sun Fire V40z server.



TABLE 1-5 Front-Panel LED Functions

LED	Description
Platform Power	This LED is lit when the platform power is on.
System Fault	This LED blinks when a severe system fault, such as an over-voltage condition or an upper temperature limit, is detected. Refer to “System-Fault Events” in the Sun Fire V20z and Sun Fire V40z Servers-- Troubleshooting Techniques and Diagnostics Guide, 817-7184.
Locate	This LED is lit when you press the Locate button on either the front or the back of the server. This LED helps you to identify which system in the rack you are working on in a rack full of servers. You can also turn on this LED remotely through SP commands (refer to the Sun Fire V20z and Sun Fire V40z Servers--Server Management Guide, 817-5249).

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1.6 Additional Options and Customer-Replaceable Components

Sun offers additional options as well as customer-replaceable components (CRUs) for the servers. The components for both the Sun Fire V20z and Sun Fire V40z servers are shown in TABLE 1-7.

Caution - For important information about the components that can be used in the different releases of the servers, see Section 3.4.1, Versions of the Sun Fire V20z Serverand Section 4.4.1, Versions of the Servers.

To order these parts, contact your local Sun sales representative. You might have a part that is replaceable under warranty. For specific details regarding your warranty, refer to:

http://www.sun.com/service/support/warranty/index.html

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1.7 Field-Replacement Units

Field-replacement units (FRUs) are components that should be replaced by qualified technicians only.

The FRUs available for the Sun Fire V20z and Sun Fire V40z servers are shown in TABLE 1-8.

To order these parts, contact your local Sun sales representative. You might have a part that is replaceable under warranty. For specific details regarding your warranty, refer to:

http://www.sun.com/service/support/warranty/index.html

^{1 (TableFootnote) Units at F370-6689-04 and higher are Seagate HDDs only. Units at F371-0292-01 and higher are Fujitsu HDDs only.}

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