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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

Solaris OS Installation Overview

Where to Find Solaris 10 Information

Installing the OpenSolaris Operating System

OpenSolaris OS Installation Overview

How to Install OpenSolaris

How To Install Device Drivers

How to Install Support Repository Updates

Booting From OS Distribution Media

How to Boot From OS Media Locally

How to Boot From OS Distribution Media or ISO File Remotely

Identifying Logical and Physical Network Interface Names for Solaris OS Installation

How to Identify Logical and Physical Network Interface Names

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

Linux

Introduction to Linux Installation

Sun Installation Assistant (SIA)

Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Installing and Updating SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

Configuring a Linux Server to Support PXE Installation

Booting From OS Distribution Media

Preliminary Tasks Before Installing An OS

Identifying Logical and Physical Network Interface Names for Linux OS Configuration

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

How to Install OpenSolaris

Before You Begin

If necessary, configure your console display and erase your boot hard drive. See Preliminary Tasks Before Installing An OS for details.

  1. Boot the OpenSolaris media as described in Booting From OS Distribution Media.

    The OpenSolaris installation script starts and the GRUB menu appears.


    image:Screen shot showing GRUB menu

    Note - In the GRUB menu, if you want to redirect the installation output to a serial console, press “e” to edit the GRUB menu to support a serial console, then type -B console = ttya. See How to Configure the Serial Port for more details.


    The system discovers and configures devices and interfaces, then it loads the OpenSolaris disk image into memory. This can take several minutes.

    If the system discovers a keyboard, the Configure Keyboard layout menu appears.


    image:Picture of keyboard menu
  2. Select the desired language from the Configure Keyboard Layout menu, then press Enter.

    The system configures the keyboard layout, then searches for configuration files.

    The Select Desktop Language menu appears.


    image:Picture of keyboard language selections
  3. Select a desktop language, then press Enter.

    After a few moments, the OpenSolaris 2009.06 desktop appears.


    image:Screen display of OpenSolaris desktop
  4. Double-click the Install OpenSolaris icon in the OpenSolaris desktop.

    The OpenSolaris Installer Welcome screen appears.


    image:Screen display of OpenSolaris installer welcome screen
  5. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.

See Also

How To Install Device Drivers