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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
How to Set Up the BIOS for Booting From the Virtualized M2 NEM
How to Use the F12 Key to Initiate the Network Boot
How to Use the F8 Key to Boot Off the PXE Server
Booting over the Network With a SPARC Blade Server
How to Boot Over the Network Using the OpenBoot on a SPARC System
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
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
Use the following procedure to boot over the network using the Virtualized M2 NEM with a SPARC blade server.
This enables the boot server to answer RARP calls from the blade for resolving the IP address for the Virtualized M2 NEM local MAC address.
Refer to the installation documentation for the operating system you want to install for details.
sync;sync;halt
{0} ok show-nets a) /pci@7c0/pci@0/pci@8/network@0 b) /pci@780/pci@0/pci@1/network@0,1 c) /pci@780/pci@0/pci@1/network@0 q) NO SELECTION Enter Selection, q to quit:
The path with a single network node should be the Virtualized M2 NEM.
cd /pci@7c0/pci@0/pci@8/network@0
{0} ok .properties assigned-addresses 82520010 00000000 11000000 00000000 01000000 82520018 00000000 10400000 00000000 00008000 82520020 00000000 00000000 00000000 00008000 82520030 00000000 10600000 00000000 00200000 local-mac-address 00 14 4f 63 00 09 phy-type xgf reg 00520000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 03520010 00000000 00000000 00000000 01000000 03520018 00000000 00000000 00000000 00008000 03520020 00000000 00000000 00000000 00008000 02520030 00000000 00000000 00000000 00100000 version Sun Blade 6000 Virtualized Multi-Fabric 10GbE NEM FCode 1.2 09/01/14 board-model 501-7995-04 model SUNW,pcie-hydra compatible pciex108e,aaaa.108e.aaaa.1 pciex108e,aaaa.108e.aaaa pciex108e,aaaa.1 pciex108e,aaaa pciexclass,020000 pciexclass,0200 address-bits 00000030 max-frame-size 00002400 network-interface-type ethernet device_type network name network fcode-rom-offset 00006200 interrupts 00000001 cache-line-size 00000010 class-code 00020000 subsystem-id 0000aaaa subsystem-vendor-id 0000108e revision-id 00000001 device-id 0000aaaa vendor-id 0000108e
{0} ok device-end {0} ok /pci@400/pci@0/pci@9/pci@0/pci@1/network@0:dhcp
{0} ok boot /pci@400/pci@0/pci@9/pci@0/pci@1/network@0:dhcp
If successful, you should see something similar to the following on the blade’s console.
Boot device: /pci@400/pci@0/pci@9/pci@0/pci@1/network@0:dhcp File and args: SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_141444-09 64-bit Copyright 1983-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Use is subject to license terms. NOTICE: hxge1: link up, 10000 Mbps, full duplex Configuring devices. Using DHCP for network configuration information. Reading ZFS config: done. Setting up Java. Please wait... Serial console, reverting to text install Beginning system identification... Searching for configuration file(s)... Using sysid configuration file /sysidcfg Search complete. Discovering additional network configuration... Completing system identification... Starting remote procedure call (RPC) services: done. NIS domain name is System identification complete. Starting Solaris installation program... Executing JumpStart preinstall phase... Searching for SolStart directory... Checking rules.ok file... Using begin script: install_begin Using finish script: patch_finish Executing SolStart preinstall phase... Executing begin script "install_begin"... Begin script install_begin execution compl
The net installation menu appears. The Solaris installation program is divided into a series of short sections where you'll be prompted to provide information for the installation. At the end of each section, you can change the selections you've made before continuing.