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Sun Blade 6000 Virtualized Multi-Fabric 10GbE M2 Network Express Module User's Guide Sun Blade 6000 Virtualized Multi-Fabric 10GbE M2 Network Express Module Documentation Library |
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Overview of Sun Blade 6000 Virtualized Multi-Fabric 10GbE M2 NEM User's Guide
Features of the Sun Blade 6000 Virtualized Multi-Fabric 10GbE M2 NEM
Performing Hot Plug Insertion and Removal
Installing or Replacing the Virtualized M2 NEM
Installing and Removing SFP+ Optical Transceiver Modules
Booting Over the Virtualized M2 NEM 10-Gigabit Ethernet Port
Booting over the Network With an x86 Blade Server
Booting over the Network With a SPARC Blade Server
Installing and Configuring the hxge Driver on a Solaris SPARC or x86 Platform
How to Configure the Network Host Files
Configuring the hxge Device Driver Parameters
Configuring the Jumbo Frames Feature
Installing and Configuring the hxge Driver on a Linux Platform
Installing and Removing the Driver on a Linux Platform
How to Remove the Driver From a Linux Platform
Configuring the Network Interface
Checking and Testing the hxge Device
Changing the hxge Driver Configuration
Installing and Configuring Drivers on a Windows Platform
Installing Drivers on a Windows Platform
Installing and Configuring Drivers on a VMware ESX Server Platform
Installing the ESX Server Drivers on an Existing ESX Server
Installing the ESX Server Drivers With a New ESX Installation
Configuring the Virtual NEM M2 Network Adapters
Accessing ILOM Documentation and Updates
Enabling Private and Failover Mode
host #> ifconfig -a | grep eth eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:4F:CA:15:68 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:4F:CA:15:69
After you have installed the Virtualized Multi-Fabric 10GbE M2 NEM hardware and installed and loaded the driver, a new eth device appears. This will be the eth device for the NEM.
For Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) use the corresponding Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) driver.
The drivers are located in one of the following directories:
/linux/drivers/rhel5.4
/linux/drivers/sles10/sp3
/linux/drivers/sles11
Note - Linux source files are also available at /linux/drivers/src
host #>mkdir tge10 host #>cp xxx/SB6000_Virt_MF_10GbE_NEM_Tools_And_Drivers_Linux_48230ai.bz2 tge10 host #>cd tge10 host #>tar -xjf SB6000_Virt_MF_10GbE_NEM_Tools_And_Drivers_Linux_48230ai.bz2
In this step, RHEL5.4 Linux driver is selected for OEL version 5.4.
host #> cd linux/drivers/rhel5.4 host #> ls -l total 897 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 895938 Mar 8 2010 hxge-1.2.7_rhel54-1.x86_64.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1485 Mar 8 2010 readme.html
The file hxge-1.2.7_rhel54-1.x86_64.rpm is the package which is to be installed.
If you are not sure what release you are running, use the lsb_release command to show information about your host operating system.
host #> lsb_release -a LSB Version: :core-3.1-amd64:core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:graphics-3.1-amd64: graphics-3.1-ia32:graphics-3.1-noarch Distributor ID: EnterpriseEnterpriseServer Description: Enterprise Linux Enterprise Linux Server release 5.4 (Carthage) Release: 5.4 Codename: Carthage host #> rpm -q hxge package hxge is not installed
Note - If an hxge driver is already installed, uninstall the driver, in order to avoid complications. See How to Remove the Driver From a Linux Platform for instructions on removing the driver. The update command (rpm -u) is not supported for updating the hxge driver.
host #> rpm -ivh hxge-1.2.7_rhel54-1.x86_64.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:hxge ########################################### [100%] post Install Done
Once you have installed the hxge driver, you can immediately load the driver. If the NEM is physically and electrically installed, the driver automatically attaches to it and makes it available to the system. Alternatively, on the next system reset and reboot, the hxge driver automatically loads if there are any NEM devices present and detected.
The command sample below has been edited for brevity. Sections marked [....] denote output that has been removed.
host #> lspci [...] 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JIR (ICH10R) LPC Interface Controller 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SATA AHCI Controller 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SMBus Controller 13:00.0 Ethernet controller: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Unknown device aaaa (rev 01) 19:00.0 Ethernet controller: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Unknown device aaaa (rev 01) 1f:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82575EB Gigabit Network Connection (rev 02) 1f:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82575EB Gigabit Network Connection (rev 02) [...]
Device code 0xAAAA (Unknown device aaaa (rev 01) output) is the Virtualized M2 NEM Device; presence of this line indicates the NEM is visible and available to the system.
host #> modprobe hxge
host #> lsmod | grep hxge hxge 175440 0 host#> modinfo hxge filename: /lib/modules/2.6.18-164.el5/kernel/drivers/net/hxge.ko version: 1.2.7 license: GPL description: Sun Microsystems(R) 10 Gigabit Network Driver author: Sun Microsystems, james.puthukattukaran@sun.com srcversion: 270F053A5DE6A454D1D224D alias: pci:v0000108Ed0000AAAAsv*sd*bc*sc*i* depends: vermagic: 2.6.18-164.el5 SMP mod_unload gcc-4.1 parm: enable_jumbo:enable jumbo packets (int) [etc.]
host #> modprobe hxge FATAL: Module hxge not found.
This indicates that you probably installed the wrong driver version. Uninstall the hxge driver and install the correct package for your Linux release.
If you are running a custom or patched kernel, you might have to build a custom driver to match your custom kernel.
Once the NEM has been correctly installed, and the hxge software driver has been successfully installed and loaded, the new NEM eth device will be visible.
host #> ifconfig -a | grep eth eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:4F:CA:15:68 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:4F:CA:15:69 eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:4F:29:00:1D
In this example, eth0 and eth1 were previously present; eth2 , is for a new NEM Ethernet network interface device. You can identify each eth device (NEM0 or NEM1) by matching the Ethernet MAC address with the one you recorded and saved when you physically installed the NEM into the chassis in Installing a NEM.
host #> ethtool -i eth2 driver: hxge version: 1.2.7 firmware-version: N/A bus-info: 0000:19:00.0
host #> ifconfig eth2 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Memory:f9000000-fa000000
The eth2 device is active and available to the system, but has not yet been configured (assigned an IP address). See the next section for details on configuring the NEM for the Linux OS.