Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User’s Guide

Installing the Adapter

This chapter describes how to install the Sun Dual 10 GbE XFP PCI Express Card in your system and verify that it has been installed correctly.

This chapter contains the following section:

• Installing the Adapter
• Installing an Optical Transceiver
• Verifying the Hardware Installation

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Installing the Adapter

If you are installing the Sun Dual 10 GbE XFP PCI Express Card into a machine running Oracle Solaris 10 OS, you must install the software before you install the hardware.

The following instructions describe the basic tasks required to install the adapter. Refer to your system installation or service manual for detailed PCI-Express adapter installation instructions, specifically you must check which bracket your server requires (low profile or standard height), and install the standard height bracket if required.

Caution - Sun Dual 10 GbE XFP PCI Express Card mechanical fit limitations: Do notinstall the Sun Dual 10 GbE XFP PCI Express Card in slot-2 of a Sun Fire T2000 system. The SATA cables from the adjacent card slot prevent the proper installation of an Sun Dual 10 GbE XFP PCI Express Card in this slot. (Note that this issue does not exist for Sun Fire T2000 that is RoHS compliant.)

Caution - Do not install the Sun Dual 10 GbE XFP PCI Express Card in slot-5 of a Sun Fire X4600 system because the heatsink on the adapter will sit against the daughter card of the Sun Fire X4600 system.

Note - When you install the adapter, ensure that the optical transceiver has not been installed. The optical transceiver must be installed into the adapter when it is in place.

This section contains the following topics:

• To Install the Adapter
• Installing an Optical Transceiver
• Verifying the Hardware Installation

1. Halt and power off your system.

2. Power off all of the peripherals connected to your system.

3. Open the system unit.

4. Attach the adhesive copper strip of the antistatic wrist strap to the metal casing of the power supply. Wrap the other end twice around your wrist, with the adhesive side against your skin.

5. Remove the filler panel from the PCI-E opening.

6. Open the retaining clip at the edge of the PCI-E opening.

7. Holding the adapter by the edges, align the adapter edge connector with the
PCI-E slot. Slide the adapter face plate into the small slot at the end of the PCI-E opening.

8. Applying even pressure at both corners of the adapter, push the PCI-Express adapter until it is firmly seated in the slot.

9. Secure the retaining clip

Caution - Do not use excessive force when installing the adapter into the PCI-E slot. You might damage the adapter’s PCI connector. If the adapter does not seat properly when you apply even pressure, remove the adapter and carefully reinstall it.

10. Detach the wrist strap and close the system unit.

11. Install the optical transceivers.

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Installing an Optical Transceiver

The Sun Dual 10 GbE XFP PCI Express Card requires an optical transceiver in each port to create and Ethernet connection. The short-range optical transceiver Part Number: 135-1172-01 and the long-range optical transceiver Part Number: 375-3495-01 are both available from Sun Microsystems.

1. Pull the white locking handle into the full horizontal position.

You will feel the handle click into position when it is fully opened.

2. Holding the optical transceiver by the edges, align the transceiver with the slot in the Sun Dual 10 GbE XFP PCI Express Card and slide it into the opening.

3. Applying even pressure at both corners of the transceiver, push the transceiver until it is firmly seated in the slot.

4. Push the handle closed to lock the optical transceiver in place.

5. Repeat Step 1 through Step 4 to install the second optical transceiver

6. Detach the wrist strap.

Caution - If you pull the locking handle down when the optical transceiver is installed, remove the optical transceiver entirely and reinstall it. The handle operates an internal lock. Pulling the handle down can disconnect the optical transceiver, even though it might appear to be connected.

7. Connect the Ethernet cables.

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Verifying the Hardware Installation

After you have installed the Sun 10-Gigabit Ethernet adapter, but before you boot your system, perform the following tasks to verify the installation. Refer to the your Oracle Solaris documentation for the detailed instructions.

1. Power on the system, and when the banner appears, press the Stop-A key sequence to interrupt the boot process and display the OpenBoot (ok) prompt.

2. List the network devices on your system.

ok show-nets
a) /pci@7c0/pci@0/pci@8/network@0,1 
b) /pci@7c0/pci@0/pci@8/network@0 
c) /pci@7c0/pci@0/pci@2/network@0,1 
d) /pci@7c0/pci@0/pci@2/network@0 
e) /pci@780/pci@0/pci@1/network@0,1 
f) /pci@780/pci@0/pci@1/network@0 
q) NO SELECTION from the above list

Checking the .properties output for each device is the surest way to identify the device. Usually /pci@7c0/pci@0/pci@8 or /pci@7c0/pci@0/pci@9 correspond to PCIe slots, so look at those devices first.

a) /pci@7c0/pci@0/pci@8/network@0,1
b) /pci@7c0/pci@0/pci@8/network@0

3. View the device that you installed.

Using the previous example, type:

ok cd /pci@7c0/pci@0/pci@8/network@0,1

4. Use the .properties command to display a list of device properties.

The .properties command displays the specific information about the device. If you are using the Sun Dual 10 GbE XFP PCI Express Card, your output will be similar to the following:

ok .properties
assigned-addresses       82080010 00000000 04000000 00000000 01000000
                         82080018 00000000 03500000 00000000 00008000
                         82080020 00000000 03508000 00000000 00008000
                         82080030 00000000 03600000 00000000 00100000
local-mac-address        00 14 4f 6b ce 88
phy-type                 xgf
reg                      00080000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
                         03080010 00000000 00000000 00000000 01000000
                         03080018 00000000 00000000 00000000 00008000
                         03080020 00000000 00000000 00000000 00008000
                         03080030 00000000 00000000 00000000 00100000
version                  2XGF 10G Ethernet Adapter FCode 1.26 06/11/14
board-model              501-7283-04
model                    SUNW,pcie-2xgf
compatible               pciex108e,abcd.108e.0.0
                         pciex108e,abcd.108e.0
                         pciex108e,abcd.0
                         pciex108e,abcd
                         pciexclass,020000
                         pciexclass,0200
                         pci108e,abcd
address-bits             00000030
max-frame-size           00002400
network-interface-type   ethernet
device_type              network
name                     network
fcode-rom-offset         00000000
interrupts               00000001
class-code               00020000
subsystem-vendor-id      0000108e
revision-id              00000000
device-id                0000abcd
vendor-id                0000108e

5. Type the following when you finish looking at the .properties values:

ok device-end

Rebooting the System

After verifying the adapter installation, use the boot -r command to perform a reconfiguration boot on your system.

ok boot -r

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