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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
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
Introduction to Windows Installation
Sun Installation Assistant (SIA)
Getting Started With Windows Server 2008 Installation
Supported Windows Operating Systems
How to Download Server Software
Selecting a Media Delivery Method
Windows Media Delivery Methods
How to Set Up the JavaRConsole System
Installing Windows Server 2008
How to Install Windows Server 2008
Updating Critical Drivers and Installing Supplemental Software
How to Update the Server-Specific Drivers
How to Install Supplemental Software
Additional Information for Supplemental Software
Incorporating Sun Fire Drivers Into a WIM Image
How to Add Drivers to a WIM Image
How to Deploy a WIM Image to Your Server
Identifying Network Interfaces in Windows
To Determine the Server's Active Network Data Ports
Confirm Physical Port MAC Addresses and Match Them to Windows Device Names
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
Please note the following important considerations before beginning the Windows Server 2008 operating system installation on your Sun server.
When you install the Windows operating system, any data on the boot drive, including any preinstalled operating system, is overwritten.
If you are using the on-board LSI mass storage controller and you want to include your boot drive as part of a RAID configuration, you need to configure a RAID volume on it. Use the LSI integrated RAID controller’s setup utility (accessible by pressing Ctrl-C when prompted during server boot) before you install Windows. For more details, refer to the Sun LSI 106x RAID User’s Guide for your server.
Windows Server 2008 R2 includes the required mass storage drivers for initial Windows operating system installation. No separate drivers disk is required during initial installation. After installing the OS, upgrade server-specific device drivers to the full-featured, Sun-tested versions as described in Updating Critical Drivers and Installing Supplemental Software.
You can install Windows using any one of the following methods, depending on whether you are an experienced or advanced user:
Installing Windows manually. For the experienced user, follow the instructions in this document to install Microsoft Windows from distribution media. You have the option of delivering the Windows distribution media locally (using the server's CD/DVD drive) or remotely (using a remote console with a redirected CD/DVD drive or CD/DVD image). See Windows Installation Overview.
Installing Windows from a deployment server environment. For the advanced user, you can create a customized Windows Server 2008 installation image (WIM) for your Sun Fire X4640 server on a system running Windows Deployment Services (WDS). Once this installation image file has been created, you can boot any Sun Fire X4640 server from its network card and select the image from the WDS system for unattended deployment. See Incorporating Sun Fire Drivers Into a WIM Image.
After the initial Windows installation, install the driver updates and supplemental software to ensure you have access to the server's full Sun-tested feature set. See Updating Critical Drivers and Installing Supplemental Software.