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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

Enabling 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

Features Overview

The key features of the Virtualized Multi-Fabric 10GbE M2 NEM are listed in the following table:

Table 1 Virtualized Multi-Fabric 10GbE M2 NEM Features Overview

Feature
Specifications
Service Processor (SP)
  • Aspeed AST2000 (service processor)
  • 128MB DDR DRAM, 16MB flash

  • SP Ethernet port through and Ethernet switch to the CMM

LSI SAS-2 x36 Expander
  • Arm7-S Processor (SAS expander device)
  • 8MB SRAM (4MB fall back), 8MB flash

  • Management in-band and via I2C, expander Ethernet port through an Ethernet switch to CMM

Management Interfaces
  • 10/100BASE-T Ethernet port to the Chassis Monitoring Module (CMM)
  • I2C to CMM

Ports
  • Four External x4 mini SAS-2 ports (external SAS connections are currently not supported)
  • Ten 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet (RJ-45) ports

  • Two SFP+ ports that support the SFP+ short range (SR) modules

Server Module Interfaces (per Blade)
  • PCIe up to x8
  • SAS-2 x2

  • GbE x1

Updates
All software and embedded firmware can be field upgraded
Indicators/Controls
  • Ethernet Link Status and Activity
  • SFP+ Link Status and Activity

  • SIS LEDs, Locate button, Attention button

  • Mini-SAS LED that is bi-functional for link and activity

  • Per Blade 10Gbps Link status in the NEM ILOM web interface

Health
  • Voltage monitoring
  • Temperature monitoring

  • Fault detection

Power Supplies
  • 3.3V_AUX from chassis midplane
  • 12V from chassis midplane

  • Other voltages generated on board

Environmental
Cooling: top-to-back forced air

Operating:

  • Humidity: 10-90% non-condensing

  • Temperature: 0 to 35°C operating (32 to 95°F)

  • Altitude: 0-10,000 ft (3048 meters)

Non operating

  • Humidity: 5-95% non-condensing

  • Temperature: –40 to 70°C operating (-40 to 158°F)

  • Altitude: 39,370 ft (12000 meters)