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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)

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)

SIA Task Overview

Obtaining SIA

Getting Started With Windows Server 2008 Installation

Supported Windows Operating Systems

Windows Installation Considerations

Windows Installation Overview

Downloading Server Software

How to Download Server Software

Selecting a Media Delivery Method

Windows Media Delivery Methods

Configuring a Remote Console

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

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 Set Up the JavaRConsole System

Before You Begin

The following requirements must be met:

  1. Start the remote console application by typing the IP address of the Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) service processor into a browser on the JavaRConsole system.
    image:Graphic showing URL sample in browser.

    The Security Alert dialog box appears.


    image:Graphic showing Security Alert dialog box.
  2. Click Yes.

    The ILOM login screen appears.


    image:Graphic showing ILOM Login screen.
  3. Enter the user name and password and click Log In.

    The default user name is root and default password is changeme.

    The ILOM Version Information screen appears.


    image:Graphic showing ILOM GUI Version Information screen.
  4. Click the Remote Control tab in the ILOM WebGUI.

    The Launch Redirection screen appears.


    Note - Make sure that the mouse mode is set to Absolute mode in the Mouse Mode Settings tab.



    image:Graphic showing ILOM GUI Launch Redirection screen.
  5. Click 8-bit color or 16-bit color, then click Launch Redirection.

    Note - When using a Windows system for JavaRConsole System redirection, an additional warning appears after clicking Launch Redirection. If the Hostname Mismatch dialog box is displayed, click the Yes button.



    image:Graphic showing Hostname Mismatch dialog box.

    The Remote Control dialog box appears.


    image:Graphic showing Remote Control Login dialog box.
  6. In the Remote Control Login dialog box, enter your user name and password and click OK.

    The default user name is root and password is changeme.

    After the login is successful, the JavaRConsole screen appears.

  7. From the Devices menu, select one CD item according to the delivery method you have chosen.
    image:Graphic showing JavaRConsole Devices menu.
    • CD-ROM Remote: Select CD-ROM to redirect the server to the operating system software CD/DVD contents from the CD/DVD-ROM drive attached to the JavaRConsole system.

    • CD-ROM Image: Select CD-ROM Image to redirect the server to the operating system software .iso image file located on the JavaRConsole system.


      Caution

      Caution - Using the CD-ROM Remote or CD-ROM Image options to install the Windows Server significantly increases the time necessary to perform the installation as the content of the CD-ROM is accessed over the network. The installation duration depends on the network connectivity and traffic.


Next Steps

Proceed to Installing Windows Server 2008.