Sun StorageTek SAS RAID HBA Installation Guide Eight-Port, External HBA
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Installing the Driver on an Existing Operating System |
This chapter describes how to install the HBA driver on an existing operatin system.
The chapter contains the following sections:
Before you begin, prepare to install the 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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For example, to insert and mount a CD:
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 web site 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 10/08 (s10u6) OS on a SPARC system. The Solaris 10 10/08 OS requires nothing from the user. However, install the latest patches from the http://www.sunsolve.sun.com web site 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 BIOS utility. See the Uniform Command-Line Interface User’s Guide at: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/prod/stortek.raid.hba#hic |
| Sun StorageTek SAS RAID HBA Installation Guide Eight-Port, External HBA
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