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Hardware Installation and Product Notes

Hardware Installation

Installation Overview

Sun Fire X4640 Server Front and Back Panel Features and Components

Installing the Server Hardware

Removing the Server From the Rack

Cabling and Power

Getting Service for Your Server

Sun Fire X4640 Server Specifications

Managing Your Server

Communicating With the ILOM and the System Console

Setting Up Your Operating System

Product Notes

Overview of the Sun Fire X4640 Server Product Notes

Supported Software and Firmware

Hardware Issues

Solaris Operating System Issues

Linux 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

BIOS Issues

Documentation Issues

Operating System Installation

Sun Installation Assistant

Introduction to Sun Installation Assistant

Getting Started With Sun Installation Assistant

Starting SIA and Preparing for Deployment or Recovery Tasks

Configuring RAID

Installing Windows With SIA

Installing Linux With SIA

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

Troubleshooting SIA

Creating a Bootable SIA USB Flash Drive

Identifying a Linux Boot Device on a Sun Fire X4500 Server

Installing Service Tags

Solaris Operating System

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

Linux

Introduction to Linux Installation

Sun Installation Assistant (SIA)

SIA Task Overview

Obtaining 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

Updating RHEL

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

How to Update SLES

Configuring a Linux Server to Support PXE Installation

Overview of PXE Servers

How to Copy Files from the Tools and Drivers CD

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

Disabling the Firewall

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 Set Up SUSE PXE Files

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

Windows

Introduction to Windows Installation

Sun Installation Assistant (SIA)

Getting Started With Windows Server 2008 Installation

Downloading Server Software

Selecting a Media Delivery Method

Configuring a Remote Console

Installing Windows Server 2008

Updating Critical Drivers and Installing Supplemental Software

Incorporating Sun Fire Drivers Into a WIM Image

Identifying Network Interfaces in Windows

ESX

Introduction to ESX Installation

Installing VMware ESX 4

Installing VMware ESXi 4.0 Installable

Booting From OS Distribution Media

Preliminary Tasks Before Installing An OS

Administration, Diagnostics, and Service

Administration Using ILOM

Overview of the ILOM Supplement

Introduction to ILOM Software

Communicating With the ILOM and the System Console

Updating Firmware

Using ILOM to Monitor the Host

Diagnostics

Overview of the Diagnostics Guide

Introduction to System Diagnostics

Troubleshooting the Server

Troubleshooting DIMM Problems

Using the ILOM to Monitor the Host

Using SunVTS Diagnostics Software

Creating a Data Collector Snapshot

Resetting the SP

Service

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

Sun Fire X4640 Server References and Specifications

Index

SUSE Linux – How to Identify Logical and Physical Network Interface Names While Installing the OS

When you are configuring the SUSE Linux OS while installing it, you reach a point where you must enter the logical and physical names (MAC addresses) of the network interfaces.

This section explains how to launch a user shell during the SUSE Linux OS configuration to obtain the logical and physical network interface names that you need to continue with the configuration.

Before You Begin

Find and record the MAC addresses of all your physical ports from their labels.

  1. If you have not already done so, select Rescue System and press Enter.

    The message Loading Linux Kernel appears followed by the SUSE splash screen, then the Choose a Keyboard Map screen appears.

  2. In the Choose a Keyboard Map screen, select the appropriate keyboard configuration and click OK.

    The user shell launches and the Rescue Login prompt appears.

  3. At the Rescue Login prompt, type root to log in, then press Enter.

    The Rescue prompt appears.

  4. At the Rescue prompt (#), type the following command, then press Enter to display all network interfaces.
    # ifconfig -a

    The output of the Linux SUSE named and physical named network interfaces appear. See the following sample output as an example.

    If you have multiple network interfaces and the output of interfaces scrolls off the top of the screen, you can display the output per interface.

  5. To view the output per network interface, type the following command at the prompt, then press Enter:
    # ifconfig eth#

    where eth# is the interface number. For example, if you type:

    # ifconfig eth0

    The output for eth0 appears:

    In the sample output above:

    • The eth0 entry in the first column refers to the Linux SUSE logical named interface. This first column in the output identifies the logical names SUSE assigned to the network interface.
    • The HWaddr 00.14.4F.0C:A1:53 entry in second column (first row) refers to the physical MAC address of the network port.
  6. Record the SUSE logical network interface name with the physical port MAC address for future reference.

    You will need to refer to this record when configuring the network interfaces during the Linux SUSE OS installation.

  7. When you are done, do one of the following to exit the Rescue shell.
    • From the ILOM web interface, select Remote Control > Remote Power Control >Reset.
    • From other consoles, type reboot at the Rescue prompt (#), then press Enter.
  8. Restart the Linux SUSE installation program.