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Sun Dual 10 GbE PCIe 2.0 Fibre Channel Over Ethernet Software

User's Guide

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Using This Documentation

Product Notes

Related Documentation

Feedback

Support and Accessibility

Understanding the FCoE Software

Installation Overview (Linux)

Installation Overview (Windows)

FCoE

System Requirements

OS Patches and Updates

Managing the Driver

Enabling the FCoE Software (Linux)

Enable FCoE During the Linux Installation

Enable FCoE After a Linux Installation

Set Up the Network Interfaces

Resolve SAN-Boot Errors (RHEL6.0/OL6.0)

Remove the FCoE Software Package (Linux)

Installing the FCoE Software (Windows)

Upgrade Guidelines for Software Release 15.4 (Windows)

Validation and Storage Certification

Hotfixes (Windows)

Download and Install the Driver (Windows)

Remove the Driver (Windows)

Verify the Functionality of the Network Interface

Booting Over a Network

Boot Over a 10GbE Network (Linux)

Set Up the FCoE Boot Option ROM (Windows)

Configuring the Switch

Configure the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch

Configure the Brocade 8000 Series Switch

Configuring Driver Parameters (Linux)

Set Driver Parameters (Linux)

Driver Parameter Settings (Linux)

Configure Jumbo Frames (Linux)

Index

Boot Over a 10GbE Network (Linux)

  1. Type the ifconfig -a command to obtain the MAC address.

    For the adapter, the MAC address on the label is for the first port. The second port's MAC address is the MAC address from the label, plus 1.

  2. Set up the PXE boot server with the MAC addresses.
  3. Plug the fibre cable into the FCoE port.
  4. Power on the system.
  5. Press the F2 key to go to the BIOS menu.
  6. Go to the Boot - Boot Device Priority screen, and ensure that the boot order of the network devices is higher than the hard drive.
  7. Press the F10 key to save the boot configuration changes, and exit the BIOS.

    The system should reboot after saving the boot configuration.

  8. Press the F12 key to install the OS from the network.

    If the cable is connected to the correct port, you should see the MAC address that you assigned to your PXE server displayed by BIOS.

    image : pxe-mac-addr
    PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
    PXE-MOF: Exiting Intel Boot Agent.
     
    NVIDIA Boot Agent 217.0513
    Copyright (C) 2001-2005) NVIDIA Corporation
    Copyright (C) 1997-2000) NVIDIA Corporation
    PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
    PXE-MOF: Exiting Intel Boot Agent.
     
    NVIDIA Boot Agent 217.0513
    Copyright (C) 2001-2005) NVIDIA Corporation
    Copyright (C) 1997-2000) NVIDIA Corporation
    PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
    PXE-MOF: Exiting Intel Boot Agent.
     
    Intel (R) Boot Agent GE v1.2.43 Beta-1
    Copyright (C) 1997-2006) Intel Corporation
     
    CLIENT MAC ADDR; 00 15 17 13 90 00 GUID: 00000000 0000 0000 0000 00144F26E0B7
  9. Install the open-fcoe.pkg software.
  10. After the Linux OS installation completes, boot the newly installed OS by using BIOS to change the boot device priority to Boot from Hard Disk.

    Unless the boot device priority is changed, the OS installation process will repeat.