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User's Guide

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

Product Notes

Overview of the Sun Blade 6000 Virtualized Multi-Fabric 10GbE M2 NEM Product Notes

Product Information

Supported Software and Firmware

Supported Hardware

Hardware and Networking Issues

Packet Drop at 1Gb with 100m Cable (6879222)

Special Instructions for Network PXE Booting for the Sun Blade X3-2B Server (7183913)

ILOM Issues

ILOM Failover and Private Mode Cannot Be Enabled Simultaneously (6911661)

Cannot Set NEM SP IP Address When NEM Is Powered Off (6938660)

ipmitool Command Fails (6940791)

FMA Not Supported (6938667)

Prepare-to-Remove and Return-to-Service Does Not Work on NEM ILOM (6948103)

Green Rear SAS Link LEDs All Turn On When Setting Prepare-to-Remove (6950981)

NEM SAS Firmware Updates Must be Performed from the CMM and Not the NEM SP (7020854)

Operating System Issues

Oracle Linux: Server Module Might Hang When NEM Replaced Repeatedly (6935520)

Oracle Solaris: Hotplugd(1M) Daemon Must Be Started Before Initiating Hot Plug Actions In Oracle Solaris 10 OS 09/10 (7005233)

Oracle Solaris: Virtualized M2 NEM hxge 10 GbE Driver Can Hang Under High Stress (6932684)

Linux: Configuring PCIe Hot Plug in Linux (7075694)

Windows: Incorrect Driver Version Displayed When Driver File Properties is Viewed (7069358)

Index

Copyright 2010, 2014

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October 2014

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