The following diagram provides a high-level overview of the tasks required to prepare a site for Sun N1 System Manager1.2 installation.
Summaries of each of the above tasks are provided in the following list.
Determine system requirements
This task involves the following actions:
Inventory 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 your switch requirements
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Map network
This task involves the following actions:
Determine 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.
Determine the VLAN assignments
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Connect the hardware based on the information and decisions you have made in the preceding steps.
Install and configure an operating system on the management server
This task can be performed at the same time as provisionable server preparation.
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Prepare the provisionable servers
This task involves the following actions:
Assign IP addresses to the management port of each provisionable server
Set up the provisionable server management processor account credentials where applicable
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Provisionable server hardware documentation