Installing the Solaris OS and the Sun Blade RAID 5 Expansion Module Driver

A P P E N D I X C

If you chose to create a bootable array as part of your installation (see Appendix B), you can install the Solaris operating system (OS) and the REM driver on that bootable array.

This appendix explains how to install the Solaris OS onto a bootable array (logical drive) and then install the REM driver on the array (logical drive).

Note - This appendix assumes you are experienced with Solaris network installs.

Topics include:

Preparing to Install the Solaris OS

Installing the RAID 5 Expansion Module Driver With the Solaris OS

Next Steps

C.1 Preparing to Install the Solaris OS

Before you begin, prepare to install the Solaris operating system.

To Prepare to Install the Solaris OS

Complete the procedures in Appendix B.

Note - For up-to-date Sun StorageTek SAS RAID HBA support, go to http://support.intel.com/support/go/sunraid.htm.

C.2 Installing the RAID 5 Expansion Module Driver With the Solaris OS

This section contains the following subsection:

To Install the RAID 5 Expansion Module Driver With the Solaris OS

To Install the RAID 5 Expansion Module Driver With the Solaris OS

1. Obtain the Solaris 10 5/08 OS and perform a normal network installation, as described in the Solaris 10 Installation Guide: Network-Based Installations, until you encounter the prompt, Reboot After Installation?.

Note - Do NOT select Auto Reboot at this point in the network installation process.

2. Specify that you want to perform a Manual Reboot.

Specifying a manual reboot provides you with the opportunity to install the HBA driver after all other Solaris software is in place. Without this driver, subsequent reboots will fail.

Note - If you accidentally choose Auto Reboot, you can still install the HBA driver prior to reboot. From an ok prompt, you can use the boot net -s command to boot from the network into single-user mode and then install the driver.

3. Use the df command to verify the following:

The product install directory is mounted on /cdrom from the network install server.

The logical drive onto which you need to place the driver package is mounted on /a.

/a is the standard Solaris mount point for the disk on which the OS is being installed.

4. If the product install directory and the logical drive are not mounted, manually mount them.

Note - With this example, you must substitute the correct host names, directory paths, and device paths in your environment.

# mount /dev/dsk/c2t0d0s0 /a (for the logical drive)
# mount install_host:install_dir_path /cdrom (for the install server products)

5. Apply the HBA driver package, SUNWaac.

# cd /cdrom/Solaris_10/Product
# pkgadd -R /a -d. SUNWaac

6. Apply any patches that are specifically required for the system.

7. Reboot the system.

# reboot

The system will now be able to see, and boot from, the logical drive on which you installed the Solaris OS.

Note - You might want to keep the network install server intact for re-installing or for emergency recovery, because as of Solaris 10 5/08, the SUNWaac driver is not included on standard Solaris install media. Using the boot net -s command from the ok prompt enables you to perform maintenance on the system, while a Solaris CD will not let you do so. You might also want to install the StorMan package on a running system. This enables you to have access to the GUI and command-line interface for the Sun StorageTek SAS RAID Internal HBA card, to configure or monitor disks.

C.3 Next Steps

You can optionally install and use the Sun StorageTek RAID Manager GUI to create arrays on the disk enclosure. See the Sun StorageTek RAID Manager User’s Guide at: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/prod/stortek.raid.hba

C.3.1 Additional Information

For more information, refer to the following documents at: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/coll/dsk-cntrl

Uniform Command-Line Interface User’s Guide, 820-2145

Sun StorageTek RAID Manager Software User’s Guide, 820-1177

Sun StorageTek RAID Manager Software Release Notes, 820-2755

Sun StorageTek SAS RAID HBA Installation Guide Eight-Port, Internal HBA
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-1847-17

For Sun RAID controller drivers, firmware, and utilities including Sun StorageTek RAID Manager for SPARC (8/4/2008) Version 5.50, go to: http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/sunraid/