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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
SIA Version 2.3 Through 2.4 Features and Benefits
Supported Servers and SIA Media Availability
Starting SIA and Preparing for Deployment or Recovery Tasks
Local and Remote Media Options
How to Start SIA and Prepare for Tasks Using Local or Remote Media
How to Create a RAID Volume Using SIA
How to Delete a RAID Volume Using SIA
How to Install Linux With SIA Using Local or Remote Media
Using SIA to Upgrade System Firmware
How to Upgrade the System BIOS and ILOM Firmware
How to Upgrade Expander Firmware
Using SIA to Recover a Service Processor
How to Recover a Service Processor
Performing an SIA PXE-Based Attended Installation
Obtain the SIA PXE Image Files
How to Create the SIA Image and Prepare for PXE Boot
How to Boot SIA From a PXE Server for an Attended Installation
Performing an SIA PXE-Based Unattended Installation
Obtain the SIA PXE Image Files
Contents of the SIA State File
How to Prepare for an Unattended SIA Installation of Linux
How to Prepare for an Unattended SIA Installation of Windows Server
How to Prepare for an Unattended SIA Firmware Upgrade
How to Create the SIA Image and Prepare for PXE Boot
How to Boot SIA From a PXE Server and Perform an Unattended Installation
Observing an SIA PXE-Based Unattended Installation
Set Up Passwords for Root and Virtual Access
Using a Virtual Console or Secure Shell (SSH) Connection
How to Establish Connection Using a VNC Viewer
How to Establish a Connection Using a Serial Console
Debugging Unattended Installation Problems
How to Debug a PXE Image That Does Not Boot
Creating a Bootable SIA USB Flash Drive
How to Get the Syslinux and SIA Software
How to Prepare the USB Flash Drive on a Windows XP System
How to Prepare the USB Flash Drive on a Linux (Red Hat/SUSE) System
Setting BIOS Parameters and Booting Off the SIA USB Flash Drive
How to Set the BIOS Parameters and Boot Off the SIA USB Flash Drive
Identifying a Linux Boot Device on a Sun Fire X4500 Server
How to Identify a Linux Boot Device on a Sun Fire X4500 Server
How to Install Service Tags in Linux
How to Install Service Tags in Windows
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
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
If your server ships with an LSI-based integrated RAID controller and you want to include your boot drive as part of a RAID configuration, you will need to configure a RAID volume on it before installing the operating system. See Configuring RAID.
If you have a Sun StorageTek RAID disk controller (Adaptec-based), you must configure an array volume through the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility (accessible by pressing Ctrl-A when prompted during server boot) before it can be accessed by SIA. This must be done whether you intend to use RAID or not. Consult your platform installation guide for instructions on how to do this.
The instructions below assume local CD/DVD drive access. Be sure to modify the instructions accordingly if you are using a local USB flash drive prepared with SIA software, or if you are running SIA from a remote console (or KVMS) with CD-ROM redirection.
The Select a Task page should be displayed.
Note - This page will only appear if your server supports more tasks than OS installation. The dialog lists only task options supported for your server. For example, your list may include operating system installation, server BIOS/ILOM firmware upgrade, or other tasks.
The Install Media Information page appears.
CD/DVD—This option allows you to install the OS source from:
- a local CD/DVD, or
- a redirected CD/DVD or ISO CD-ROM image
Network (Windows)—This option allows you to install the OS source from a network share.
If you booted SIA from a CD/DVD drive, eject the SIA CD from this drive and insert the first disk of the operating system into the drive. In the ILOM Remote Console, select the CD-ROM option from the Devices menu (see graphic below for example).
If you booted SIA from an ISO CD-ROM image, unmount the SIA ISO CD-ROM image from the service processor ILOM Remote Console by deselecting CD-ROM Image from the Devices menu (see graphic below for example), then select CD-ROM Image and specify the location of the ISO OS CD-ROM image.
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For OSes requiring multiple images (CD1, CD2, etc.), multiple address fields are available.
Note - The URL address can not contain spaces.
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Where hostname_or_IPaddress is either the hostname or the IP address of the server containing the image file, and ISOimage.iso is the name of the Windows OS installation ISO image (.iso) file. For Windows, the complete path to the required .iso file must be included.
Note - This partition is required for Windows Server 2008 installation.
The WinPE partition for Windows Server 2008 installation is created.
Note - The first 8GB of the disk is reserved for the WinPE partition and cannot be used for anything else.
The Windows boot partition is created and the operating system preinstallation environment completes.
Note - If you see an error listed during installation, check the SunInstallationAssistant.log file for more details.
Boot from the hard disk on which the operating system will be installed. Follow the on-screen instructions as prompted to complete any additional operating system setup tasks.
Note - If you are installing the OS on a disk other than disk 0, you need to change the system boot order to identify the proper boot disk. This can be done either through the system BIOS setup program (if your disk is connected to an integrated disk controller), or an option card BIOS setup program (if your disk is connected to an optional HBA). Follow the instructions in your system and/or option card documentation to set boot order.
Note - The default administrator account password for Windows Server 2008 is changeme.
Next Steps
Once the operating system is installed, complete the following post installation tasks, as necessary:
Install and configure additional drivers for your server not installed by SIA. This provides you the supported feature set for installed server components and option cards (for example, additional drivers may include ACPI, video, network and mass storage). Additional drivers can be found on the latest Tools and Drivers CD/DVD for your server.
Install Sun-specific optional software and utilities available on the latest Tools and Drivers CD/DVD for your server.
Install Sun Service Tags. The installation files are automatically copied to your server during OS installation, but must be run by the system administrator for the server in order to be properly installed. See Installing Service Tags.