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Finishing Installation With Existing 10GbE NEMs

If you have been using Sun Blade 6000 10GbE Multi-Fabric NEMs, you must upgrade the firmware on them to the minimum supported level. The Sun Common Array Manager (CAM) software does this. The CAM steps in this appendix are described in greater detail in the Disk Module Administration Guide.

CAM sees SAS-NEMs indirectly through disk blades. Therefore, to use CAM to upgrade the firmware on SAS-NEMs, you must have at least one disk blade in your chassis.

Use CAM to Upgrade NEM Firmware

procedure icon  To Upgrade Your 10GbE NEM Firmware

  1. Insert your 10GbE Multi-Fabric NEMs.

  2. Insert one disk blade in slot 9.

  3. Install the CAM software on a single server on your network that you intend to use for management.

  4. Register the disk blade in your chassis with CAM. Check to see if the disk blade expander firmware is current.

    If the SAS-NEM firmware is not current, CAM reports that the disk blade firmware is not current. The SAS-NEM firmware and the disk blade firmware are upgraded at the same time and to the same revision.

  5. Use CAM to upgrade the expander firmware on the disk blade.

    Choosing to upgrade the disk blade automatically upgrades the SAS-NEMs in the chassis.


    Note - When the SAS-NEM expander firmware is upgraded, you can continue with your installation. Proceed with the instructions below. Do not return to the previous chapter.


procedure icon  To Install Your Disk Blades

  1. Power off all of your server blades.

  2. Insert all the disk blades you intend to use with server blades. Facing the front of the chassis, insert the disk blade in an odd-numbered slot to the right of the server blade it is paired with.

    Put the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth disk blades in slots 9, 7, 5, 3, and 1 (see Where to Put the Server Blades and Disk Blades).


    Note - The disk blades power on automatically when inserted. Verify that the green OK LED on each disk blade lights up.


  3. Insert disks into the disk blade if you have not already done so.

  4. Power on all your server blades.

  5. If you plan to install your x64 server’s OS in a hardware RAID volume on your disk blade, do so now. See the Disk Module Administration Guide for instructions on setting up hardware RAID volumes.


    Note - Successful creation of a hardware RAID volume verifies correct operation of that particular disk blade.


procedure icon  To Save the Configuration of Your LSI Host Bus Adapters for Servers Running the Solaris OS

If you need to replace a failed LSI host bus adapter on a server blade that is running the Solaris OS, the replacement is quick and simple if you have saved a file with the adapter’s configuration. Use this procedure (described in greater detail in the Disk Module Administration Guide), which does not require powering off or rebooting:

  1. Install the lsiutil application on all the server blades in your chassis that are running the Solaris OS and have LSI host bus adapters.

  2. Create a persistent mappings snapshot file for every one of these server blades.

  3. Archive the persistent mappings snapshots to a safe external location.


    Note - If you are using Adaptec host bus adapters, which use a different target ID scheme, it is not necessary to save a snapshot of your adapter’s configuration.




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