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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

How to Download and Install the Driver on a Linux Platform

How to Remove the Driver From a Linux Platform

Configuring the Network Interface

About Temporary hxge Network Interface Configuration

About Permanent hxge Network Interface Configuration

How to Bring the Interface Online Manually

How to Configure the Network Interface File Automatically for Red Hat Linux

How to Configure the Network Interface Automatically for SUSE Linux

Checking and Testing the hxge Device

Changing the hxge Driver Configuration

How to Temporarily Configure the hxge Driver Parameters

How to Permanently Configure the hxge Driver Parameters

hxge Driver Configuration Parameters

Troubleshooting the Driver

Debug Messaging Parameter Overview

How to Set the Debug Drive Parameter Dynamically

How to Configure the Syslog Parameter

Configuring Jumbo Frames

How to Temporarily Configure Jumbo Frames Support

How to Permanently Enable Jumbo Frame Support

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

How to Set the Debug Drive Parameter Dynamically

The Linux hxge driver’s message logging can be statically specified via the debug driver configuration parameter. See Table 7. This will set the messaging level when the driver is initially loaded into memory and initializes itself. This message level remains in effect until the driver is unloaded or dynamically overridden. The debug configuration parameter can only be specified when the driver is first loaded into kernel memory.

In addition to the static debug driver configuration parameter, the currently-running Linux hxge driver’s message logging can be dynamically controlled via the ethtool(8) utility, using the -s switch.

  1. To set the debug driver configuration parameter dynamically, use the following command:
    ethtool -s ethn msglvl parametervalue

    For example, still using eth2 as in previous examples, to dynamically turn on debug messaging in the currently-running hxge driver, use the command:

    ethtool eth2 -s msglvl 0x2001

    and to dynamically turn debug messaging back off again, leaving only error messages to be logged, use the command:

    ethtool eth2 -s msglvl 2002
  2. Configure the syslog parameter. See How to Configure the Syslog Parameter.