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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

Features Overview

Components Overview

NEM Ports and LEDs

Performing Hot Plug Insertion and Removal

SAS Interface Hot Plug

Installing or Replacing the Virtualized M2 NEM

Installing a NEM

Verifying NEM Installation

Replacing a NEM

Installing and Removing SFP+ Optical Transceiver Modules

Cabling the SPF+ Connectors

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

Configuring the Network Interface

Checking and Testing the hxge Device

Changing the hxge Driver Configuration

Troubleshooting the Driver

Configuring Jumbo Frames

Installing and Configuring Drivers on a Windows Platform

Installing Drivers on a Windows Platform

Enabling Jumbo Frames

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

Configuring Jumbo Frames

ILOM Supplement

Accessing ILOM Documentation and Updates

Connecting to ILOM

Updating the NEM Firmware

Sun Blade Zone Manager

Enabling Private and Failover Mode

Using Hot Plug Commands

Fixing Problems with Oracle ILOM Using the Preboot Menu

Terminology

The following terms are used in this document:

Term	Description
chassis	The Sun Blade 6000 Modular System blade enclosure.
storage module (or storage blade)	The Sun Blade Storage Module M2. The terms storage module and storage blade are used interchangeably.
server module (or server blade)	Any server module (blade) that will interoperate with a storage module (blade). For a server module to work with a Virtualized M2 NEM, the server module must have a SAS-2 REM installed. The terms server module and server blade are used interchangeably.
Virtualized M2 NEM	The Sun Blade 6000 Virtualized Multi-Fabric 10GbE M2 Network Express Module that plugs into a Sun Blade 6000 chassis (abbreviated Virtualized Multi-Fabric 10GbE M2 NEM).
Virtualized M2 NEM ASIC	A shortened reference to the ASICs embedded in the Sun Blade 6000 Virtualized Multi-Fabric 10GbE M2 Network Express Module that enable 10GbE virtualization.
Multi-Fabric NEM	A generic term that applies to any Network Express Module that provides a variety of interconnect options to server blades in a chassis. The Virtualized Multi-Fabric 10GbE M2 NEM is one example.
SAS-2 NEM	A generic term that applies to any Network Express Module that supports SAS-2 connectivity. The Virtualized Multi-Fabric 10GbE M2 NEM is one example of a SAS-2 NEM.
NEM 0, NEM 1	Terms used by NEM management software to identify Multi-Fabric NEMs occupying NEM slots in the chassis.
10 GbE	10 Gigabit Ethernet.

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