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Hardware Installation and Product Notes
Sun Fire X4640 Server Front and Back Panel Features and Components
Installing the Server Hardware
Removing the Server From the Rack
Getting Service for Your Server
Sun Fire X4640 Server Specifications
Communicating With the ILOM and the System Console
Setting Up Your Operating System
Overview of the Sun Fire X4640 Server Product Notes
Supported Software and Firmware
Solaris Operating System Issues
Windows Operating System Issues
VMware ESX and VMware ESXi Issues
Sun Installation Assistant Issues
MegaRAID Storage Manager (MSM) Issues
Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) Issues
Introduction to Sun Installation Assistant
Getting Started With Sun Installation Assistant
Starting SIA and Preparing for Deployment or Recovery Tasks
Using SIA to Upgrade System Firmware
Using SIA to Recover a Service Processor
Performing an SIA PXE-Based Attended Installation
Performing an SIA PXE-Based Unattended Installation
Observing an SIA PXE-Based Unattended Installation
Creating a Bootable SIA USB Flash Drive
Identifying a Linux Boot Device on a Sun Fire X4500 Server
Introduction to Solaris OS and OpenSolaris Installation
Installing the Solaris 10 Operating System
Installing the OpenSolaris Operating System
Booting From OS Distribution Media
Identifying Logical and Physical Network Interface Names for Solaris OS Installation
Preliminary Tasks Before Installing An OS
Introduction to Linux Installation
Sun Installation Assistant (SIA)
Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Overview of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Installation
Installing RHEL From Distribution Media
How to Download RHEL Media Kits
How to Install RHEL From Distribution Media
How to Update the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Software
How to Update the RHEL SCSI Drivers
Installing and Updating SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Introduction to Installing SLES From Distribution Media
How to Install SLES From Distribution Media
Configuring a Linux Server to Support PXE Installation
How to Install and Configure a DHCP Server
How to Install Portmap on Your DHCP Server
How to Configure the TFTP Service on Your DHCP Server
How to Install and Configure the neopxe Boot Server Daemon
How to Configure the NFS Service on Your PXE Server
How to Disable the Firewall for SUSE Linux
How to Disable the Firewall for Red Hat Linux
How to Create a PXE Installation Image for Red Hat Linux
Creating a PXE Image for SUSE Linux
How to Set Up and Copy SUSE Software to a Directory
How to Install RHEL and SUSE Linux From a PXE Server
Booting From OS Distribution Media
How to Boot From OS Media Locally
How to Boot From OS Distribution Media or ISO File Remotely
Preliminary Tasks Before Installing An OS
Accessing the Server Output During Installation
How to Configure the Serial Port
How to Erase Your Boot Hard Disk
Identifying Logical and Physical Network Interface Names for Linux OS Configuration
SUSE Linux - How to Identify Logical and Physical Network Interface Names While Installing the OS
RHEL - How to Identify Logical and Physical Network Interface Names While Installing the OS
Introduction to Windows Installation
Sun Installation Assistant (SIA)
Getting Started With Windows Server 2008 Installation
Selecting a Media Delivery Method
Installing Windows Server 2008
Updating Critical Drivers and Installing Supplemental Software
Incorporating Sun Fire Drivers Into a WIM Image
Identifying Network Interfaces in Windows
Introduction to ESX Installation
Installing VMware ESXi 4.0 Installable
Booting From OS Distribution Media
Preliminary Tasks Before Installing An OS
Administration, Diagnostics, and Service
Overview of the ILOM Supplement
Communicating With the ILOM and the System Console
Using ILOM to Monitor the Host
Overview of the Diagnostics Guide
Introduction to System Diagnostics
Using the ILOM to Monitor the Host
Using SunVTS Diagnostics Software
Creating a Data Collector Snapshot
Sun Fire X4640 Server Service Manual Overview
Controlling Power and Performing Hardware Reset
Removing and Installing Components
Configuring the System Using the BIOS Setup Utilities
Before You Begin
Obtain the following items:
Linux server equipped with:
DVD drive
USB keyboard
Monitor
SUSE or Red Hat Linux media set
Tools and Drivers CD
Go to http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4600 and select Downloads.
# mkdir /tmp
# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom # cp /mnt/cdrom/linux/pxe/name-pxefiles.tar.gz /tmp
where name is rhel4, rhel5, sles10 or sles11.
# cd /tmp # tar -zxvf name-pxefiles.tar.gz
where name is rhel4, rhel5, sles10 or sles11.
When you extract the file, a directory with all required files will be created, for example, /tmp/name-pxefiles/
Next Steps