Preface

This document describes the installation of the Sun Fire trademark Visual Grid system consisting of the networking interconnect of Sun Fire 4800/6800 Visual Grid computers and Sun Fire V880z Visual Grid computers through Sun XVR-4000 graphics accelerators.

Note - The procedures in this manual should only be performed by experienced system administrators.

How This Book Is Organized

Chapter 1 provides an overview of the Sun Fire Visual Grid system and an overview of the installation process.

Chapter 2 describes the Sun Fire Visual Grid system software requirements.

Chapter 3 describes the Sun Fire Visual Grid hardware requirements and supported system configurations.

Chapter 4 describes installing the Sun Fire Visual Grid interconnect and Sun Fire Visual Grid software.

Chapter 5 describes the dzadmin configuration tool, which administrators use to configure a Sun Fire Visual Grid system.

Chapter 6 provides security information through the Sun Fire Visual Grid software daemon program (dzdaemon).

Appendix A provides troubleshooting information.

Using UNIX Commands

This document might not contain information on basic UNIX^® commands and procedures such as shutting down the system, booting the system, and configuring devices. See the following for this information:

Software documentation that you received with your system

Solaris operating environment documentation, which is at:

http://docs.sun.com

Typographic Conventions

Typeface`^[1]`	Meaning	Examples
`AaBbCc123`	The names of commands, files, and directories; on-screen computer output	Edit your`.login` file. Use `ls` `-a` to list all files. `% You have mail`.
`AaBbCc123`	What you type, when contrasted with on-screen computer output	`%` `su` `Password:`
AaBbCc123	Book titles, new words or terms, words to be emphasized. Replace command-line variables with real names or values.	Read Chapter 6 in the User's Guide. These are called class options. You must be superuser to do this. To delete a file, type `rm` filename.

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Meaning

Examples

AaBbCc123

The names of commands, files, and directories; on-screen computer output

Edit your.login file.

Use ls -a to list all files.

% You have mail.

AaBbCc123

What you type, when contrasted with on-screen computer output

% su

Password:

AaBbCc123

Book titles, new words or terms, words to be emphasized. Replace command-line variables with real names or values.

Read Chapter 6 in the User's Guide.

These are called class options.

You must be superuser to do this.

To delete a file, type rm filename.

Shell Prompts

Shell	Prompt
C shell	machine-name`%`
C shell superuser	machine-name`#`
Bourne shell and Korn shell	`$`
Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser	`#`

Accessing Sun Documentation

You can view, print, or purchase a broad selection of Sun documentation, including localized versions, at:

http://www.sun.com/documentation

Contacting Sun Technical Support

If you have technical questions about this product that are not answered in this document, go to:

http://www.sun.com/service/contacting

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