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C H A P T E R  4
Installing or Configuring the Operating System

You can either install an operating system or, if the server module was shipped with a preinstalled operating system, you can configure that preinstalled operating system.

This chapter includes the following topics:

Installing an Operating System

TABLE 4-1 lists the operating systems supported on the Sun Blade X6270 M2 Server Module at the time of publication of this document, along with information about where to get instructions for installing each operating system.


Note - For an up-to-date list of the operating systems supported on the Sun Blade X6270 M2 Server Module, go to the following web site and navigate to the appropriate page:
http://www.oracle.com/goto/x6270m2

 


TABLE 4-1 Supported Operating Systems

Operating System

Supported Version

For Installation Information, See:

Windows

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 Datacenter (64-bit) with Hyper-V
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 Enterprise (64-bit) with Hyper-V
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 Standard (64-bit) with Hyper-V
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter (64-bit) with Hyper-V
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise (64-bit) with Hyper-V
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard (64-bit) with Hyper-V

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Linux

  • Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) 5.4 and 5.5 (64-bit)
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10 SP3 (64-bit)
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 (64-bit) and SLES 11 SP1
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (RHEL) 5.4 and 5.5 (64-bit)

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Oracle Solaris

  • Oracle Solaris 10 10/09 and later

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Virtual Machine Software

  • Oracle VM 2.2.1
  • VMware ESX and ESXi 4.0 Update 1
  • VMware ESX and ESXi 4.1

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Configuring a Preinstalled Operating System

If your server module was shipped with a preinstalled operating system, you must configure that operating system before you can use it on the server module. The Oracle Solaris 10 10/09 Operating System is available as preinstalled option. For information about configuring the preinstalled Oracle Solaris 10 10/09 Operating System, see Chapter 5.


Note - For an up-to-date list of the preinstalled operating systems available for the Sun Blade X6270 M2 Server Module, go to the following web site and navigate to the appropriate page:
http://www.oracle.com/goto/x6270m2



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