Sun Fire B100x and B200x Server Blade Installation and Setup Guide
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This manual tells you how to install and set up B100x and B200x server blades for the Sun Fire B1600 blade system chassis.
The manual is intended for experienced system administrators.
Before You Read This Book
Before performing the instructions in this manual, make sure you have installed the blade system chassis into a rack and connected all of the cables required. For information on how to install the chassis hardware, read the Sun Fire B1600 Blade System Chassis Hardware Installation Guide.
How This Book Is Organized
- Chapter 1 provides an overview of the steps required to install and set up a server blade. It also provides a list of features of the server blade.
- Chapter 2 provides information on system site requirements for a Sun Fire B1600 blade system chassis containing B200x and B100x and B200x blades.
- Chapter 3 tells you how to install or replace a server blade in the Sun Fire B1600 blade system chassis.
- Chapter 4 tells you how to build a PXE boot install environment.
- Chapter 5 tells you how to power on a server blade and access its console.
- Chapter 6 tells you how to upgrade Linux kernel drivers.
- Chapter 7 tells you how to use the link aggregation and failover to provide redundant network connections for the server blades.
- Chapter 8 provides information on using the memdiag utility and the biosupdate utility with Linux blades.
- Chapter 9 provides information on problems that can occur during or after a PXE boot installation of the Linux operating system.
- Chapter 10 tells you how to set up the Network Install Server and the DHCP Server to install Solaris x86 onto a blade.
- Chapter 11 tells you how to use IPMP to provide redundant network connections for the server blades.
- Chapter 12 tells you how to use IPMP in combination with tagged VLANs to provide redundant virtual connections for the server blades.
- Chapter 13 provides information on testing the memory DIMMS on the Solaris x86 blades.
- Chapter 14 provides information on problems that can occur during or after a PXE boot installation of the Solaris x86 operating system.
- Appendix A tells you how to upgrade the System Controller firmware and Blade Support Chip firmware.
- Appendix A tells you how to use the monitoring facility to view global information about the chassis and its components.
After You Read This Book
After you read this book you may need to consult two other manuals for the blade system chassis:
- For further information about using the command-line interface to the System Controller on the chassis, refer to the Sun Fire B1600 Blade System Chassis Administration Guide.
- For further information about managing the integrated switches on the chassis, refer to the Sun Fire B1600 Blade System Chassis Switch Administration Guide. This manual describes the hardware and architecture of the integrated switch (Chapter 1). It also tells you how to perform the initial configuration of the switch (Chapter 2), how to manage the switch using either its web Graphical User Interface or using SNMP (Chapter 3), and how to use all the commands available for managing the switch from the command-line interface (Chapter 4).
Typographic Conventions
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AaBbCc123
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The names of commands, files, and directories; on-screen computer output
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Edit your.login file.
Use ls -a to list all files.
% You have mail.
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What you type, when contrasted with on-screen computer output
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% su
Password:
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Book titles, new words or terms, words to be emphasized. Replace command-line variables with real names or values.
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Read Chapter 6 in the User's Guide.
These are called class options.
You must be superuser to do this.
To delete a file, type rm filename.
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Shell Prompts
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C shell
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machine-name%
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C shell superuser
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machine-name#
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Bourne shell and Korn shell
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$
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Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser
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#
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System Controller shell
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sc>
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Integrated switch shell
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Console#
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Related Documentation
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Title
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Compliance and safety
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Sun Fire B1600 Blade System Chassis Compliance and Safety Manual
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Hardware installation overview (foldout poster)
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Sun Fire B1600 Blade System Chassis Quick Start
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Hardware installation
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Sun Fire B1600 Blade System Chassis Hardware Installation Guide
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Software installation overview (foldout poster)
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Sun Fire B1600 Blade System Chassis Software Setup Quick Start
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Software setup
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Sun Fire B1600 Blade System Chassis Software Setup Guide
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B100x and B200x server blade installation and setup
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Sun Fire B100x and B200x Server Blade Installation and Setup Guide (this manual)
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System chassis administration and component replacement
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Sun Fire B1600 Blade System Chassis Administration Guide
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Switch administration
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Sun Fire B1600 Blade System Chassis Switch Administration Guide
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Late-breaking information
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Sun Fire B1600 Blade System Chassis Product Notes
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