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Overview of Sun Blade 6000 Virtualized Multi-Fabric 10GbE M2 NEM User's Guide

Features of the Sun Blade 6000 Virtualized Multi-Fabric 10GbE M2 NEM

Terminology

Features Overview

Components Overview

NEM Ports and LEDs

Performing Hot Plug Insertion and Removal

PCIe Hot Plug

SAS Interface Hot Plug

Installing or Replacing the Virtualized M2 NEM

Installing a NEM

Verifying NEM Installation

Removing a NEM

Replacing a NEM

Installing and Removing SFP+ Optical Transceiver Modules

Cabling the SPF+ Connectors

Booting Over the Virtualized M2 NEM 10-Gigabit Ethernet Port

Booting over the Network With an x86 Blade Server

Booting over the Network With a SPARC Blade Server

Installing and Configuring the hxge Driver on a Solaris SPARC or x86 Platform

How to Configure the Network Host Files

Configuring the hxge Device Driver Parameters

Configuring the Jumbo Frames Feature

Installing and Configuring the hxge Driver on a Linux Platform

Installing and Removing the Driver on a Linux Platform

Configuring the Network Interface

Checking and Testing the hxge Device

Changing the hxge Driver Configuration

Troubleshooting the Driver

Configuring Jumbo Frames

Installing and Configuring Drivers on a Windows Platform

Installing Drivers on a Windows Platform

Installing and Uninstalling the Sun Blade 6000 10GbE Network Controller

How to Install the Sun Blade 6000 10GbE Network Controller

How to Uninstall the Sun Blade 6000 10GbE Networking Controller

Installing and Uninstalling the Sun Blade 6000 10GbE VLAN Driver (Optional)

How to Install the VLAN Driver

How to Uninstall the VLAN Driver

Adding and Removing VLANs

How to Add a VLAN

How to Remove a VLAN

How to Install the Enclosure Device on a Windows Server 2008 System

Enabling Jumbo Frames

How to Enable Jumbo Frames

Installing and Configuring Drivers on a VMware ESX Server Platform

Installing the ESX Server Drivers on an Existing ESX Server

Installing the ESX Server Drivers With a New ESX Installation

Configuring the Virtual NEM M2 Network Adapters

Configuring Jumbo Frames

ILOM Supplement

Accessing ILOM Documentation and Updates

Connecting to ILOM

Updating the NEM Firmware

Sun Blade Zone Manager

NEM Sensors

Enabling Private and Failover Mode

Using Hot Plug Commands

Fixing Problems with Oracle ILOM Using the Preboot Menu

Index

How to Install the Enclosure Device on a Windows Server 2008 System

  1. Open the Windows Device manager.
    1. Click Start, then click Run.
    2. Type devmgmt.msc in the Open field and click OK.

      The Windows Device Manager displays.


      image:Graphic showing missing drivers in device manager
  2. Click on System Devices and find the Generic SCSI Enclosure Device.

    One enclosure device is displayed if you have one Virtualized M2 NEM installed and two enclosure devices are displayed if you have two Virtualized M2 NEMs installed.

  3. Right-click on the Generic SCSI Enclosure Device, and select Update driver.

    The How do you want to search for drive software? page displays.


    image:Graphic showing installation choices page
  4. Click “Browse my computer for driver software”.

    The Browse for driver software on your computer page displays.


    image:Graphic showing the search and installation options page
  5. Click “Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer”, and click Next.

    The Select the device driver you want to install for this hardware page displays.


    image:Graphic showing select device driver page
  6. Click Have Disk.

    The Install From Disk page displays.


    image:Graphic showing install from disk dialog box
  7. Click Browse and navigate to the directory that contains the Sun Blade 6000 10GbE Virtualized Multi-Fabric Network Express Module information (lsinodrv.inf) file.

    The path on the Tools and Drivers CD is:

    DVDdrive:\windows\w2k8\64-bit\lsinodrv.inf

    The selected Sun Blade 6000 10Gbe Virtualized Multi-Fabric- Network Express Module driver displays.


    image:Graphic showing locate file dialog box
  8. Click Next to install the Sun Blade 6000 10Gbe Virtualized Multi-Fabric Network Express Module driver.

    The Software Installing page displays as the device is installed, then the Windows has successfully updated your driver software page displays.


    image:Graphic showing the completing the hardware update wizard page
  9. Click Close to complete the installation.
  10. Verify that the enclosure device has been installed.
    1. Click Start, then click Run.
    2. Type devmgmt.msc in the Open field and click OK.

      The Windows Device Manager displays.


      image:Graphic showing installed devices in device manager
    3. Click on System Devices and verify that the Sun Blade 6000 10GbE Virtualized Multi-Fabric Network Express Module is in the System Devices list.
    4. Repeat this procedure to install a second enclosure device.