| Sun StorageTek SAS RAID HBA Installation Guide |    
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Installing the Driver on an Existing Operating System |
As an installation option, you can choose to perform a standard installation by installing the HBA driver on an existing operating system. This chapter describes how to perform this operation.
| Note - If you want to create a bootable array and install an operating system and the HBA driver on that array, DO NOT perform the procedures in this chapter. Instead, see Creating a Bootable Array on an x64 System or Creating a Bootable Array on a SPARC System. |
This chapter contains the following sections:
Before you begin, prepare to install the HBA driver by doing the following:
1. Install and connect the HBA and disk drives.
See Hardware Installation and Removal.
| Note - For up-to-date operating system version support, visit http://support.intel.com/support/go/sunraid.htm. |
2. Obtain the driver CD from the HBA ship kit or obtain the latest version of the driver at http://support.intel.com/support/go/sunraid.htm.
The driver can be installed on various operating systems. This section contains the following subsections:
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The Found New Hardware Wizard opens and searches for the driver.
3. Select the source, and click Next.
4. Click Next, and click Next again.
5. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the driver installation.
6. Remove the driver CD and restart the computer.
7. To configure and manage the hard disks, see the Sun StorageTek RAID Manager Software User’s Guide at: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/prod/stortek.raid.hba#hic
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Red Hat: mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
SUSE: mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom
rpm -Uvh mount-point/xxx/yyy.rpm
Where mount-point is the specific mount point on the Linux system, xxx is the driver path, and yyy.rpm is the rpm file.
4. Reboot the computer to ensure the driver loaded correctly.
5. Run fdisk, mkfs, and create mount points for any new disk drives.
6. To configure and manage the hard disks, see the Sun StorageTek RAID Manager Software User’s Guide at: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/prod/stortek.raid.hba#hic
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This HBA supports, at a minimum, the Solaris 10 8/07 (s10u4) OS on an x64-based system. The Solaris 10 8/07 OS requires nothing from the user. However, install the latest patches from the http://www.sunsolve.sun.com website after installing the Solaris OS.
To configure and manage the hard disks, see the Sun StorageTek RAID Manager Software User’s Guide at: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/prod/stortek.raid.hba#hic
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This HBA supports, at a minimum, the Solaris 10/08 (s10u6) OS on a SPARC system. The Solaris 10 8/07 OS requires nothing from the user. However, install the latest patches from the http://www.sunsolve.sun.com website after installing the Solaris OS.
To configure and manage the hard disks, see the Sun StorageTek RAID Manager Software User’s Guide at: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/prod/stortek.raid.hba#hic
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| Note - The embedded driver provided by VMware ESX Server is suitable for most applications. If an updated driver is needed, use the following procedure. |
1. Start the computer, then insert the driver CD.
2. At the console screen of the VMware ESX Server, mount the CD.
mount -r /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom.
rpm -ivh /mnt/cdrom/xxx/yyy.rpm
where xxx is the driver path, and yyy.rpm is the rpm file.
4. Reboot the computer and remove the driver medium.
| Note - The Sun StorageTek RAID Manager GUI is not supported with VMware technology. To create and manage arrays, use the command-line interface and the BIOS utility. See the Uniform Command-Line Interface User’s Guide at: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/prod/stortek.raid.hba#hic |
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