Summary of Major Tasks

The following diagram provides a high-level overview of the tasks required to prepare a site for Sun N1 System Manager 1.1 installation.

Figure 1–1 Site Preparation Task Flow

Summaries of each of the above tasks are provided in the following list.

• Determine system requirements

  This task involves:

  • Inventory of the equipment you want to use with the Sun N1 System Manager

  • Compare the inventory to the system requirements, and if desired, purchase additional equipment

  • Determine which server you will use as the management server, and which operating system you will install on the management server

  • Determine which servers you will use as provisionable servers, and based on the total, determine the number of racks needed.

  References:

  • Sun N1 System Manager Hardware and OS Requirements

  • Sun N1 System Manager Connection Information

• Map network

  This task involves:

  • Determining the IP addressing scheme for the management, provisioning, and data networks.

  • Whether you will use a single-switch configuration in which all connections are on a single switch, or a two-switch configuration, in which the management network is isolated on one switch and the data and provisioning networks are on the second switch.

  • Determining the VLAN assignments

  References:

  • Reference Configurations

  • Site Planning

• Connect the hardware based on the information and decisions you have made in the preceding steps.

• Install operating system on the management server

  This task can be performed at the same time as provisionable server preparation.

  References:

  Chapter 3, Installing and Configuring an OS on the Management Server

• Prepare the provisionable servers

  This task involves:

  • Assigning IP addresses to the management port of each provisionable server

  • Setting up the provisionable server management processor accounts, and where applicable, the IPMI accounts.

  References:

  • Setting Up Provisionable Servers