Sun Blade 8000 Modular System Hardware, Firmware, and OS Requirements

The following tables list the hardware details, operating systems, firmware, and credentials supported by N1 System Manager, for the Sun Blade 8000 Modular System.

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Note –

Do not use a Sun Blade X8400 Server Module as the management server for N1 System Manager. Use one of the supported management server listed in Management Server Requirements.

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Table 1–1 Sun Blade X8400 Server Module Hardware and OS Requirements

Requirement Type	Recommendation
RAM	512 Mbytes minimum, 1 Gbyte recommended
Disk Space	12 Gbytes minimum
Provisionable Operating Systems	Solaris x64 Version 10 Update 2,  64-bit  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 AS Update 3,  64-bit  SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 SP3,   64-bit  Windows 2003 SE, 2003 EE, SP1 32-bit  Windows 2003 SE, 2003 EE 64-bit

Table 1–2 Sun Blade 8000 Modular System Firmware Requirements

Chassis Component	Management Port	Minimum
Sun Blade 8000 Chassis CMM	ILOM	Firmware 1.1  Firmware build 11149
Sun Blade X8400 Server Module SP	ILOM	Firmware 1.1  Firmware build 11149
Sun Blade X8400 Server Module BIOS		0ABHL048

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Note –

N1 System Manager supports upgrading the firmware on the Sun Blade X8400 Server Modules. This release of N1 System Manager does not support upgrading the firmware on the Sun Blade 8000 Chassis.

The Sun Blade 8000 Chassis CMM and the Sun Blade X8400 Server Module SP must be at the same firmware level. See the hardware documentation for more information.

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Table 1–3 Sun Blade 8000 Modular System Default Credentials

Management Port Type	SSH Login	SSH Password	IPMI Login	IPMI Password
ILOM	root	changeme	root	changeme

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Note –

If no other credentials are specified during discovery of Sun Blade X8400 Server Modules, the default credentials assumed by N1 System Manager are the factory default credentials, as listed in Table 1–3.

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