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Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant 2.5 User's Guide for x86 Servers |
Overview of the Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant User's Guide
Getting Started With Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant
What is Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant?
Supported Provisioning Tasks List
Launching the Application and Performing Provisioning Tasks
Local and Remote Media Launch Options for Sun Fire and Sun Blade Servers
How to Perform Provisioning Tasks
How to Install Windows Using Local or Remote Media
How to Install Linux Using Local or Remote Media
Updating System and Component Firmware
How to Update the System BIOS and Oracle ILOM Firmware
How to Update Expander Firmware
Recovering a Service Processor
How to Recover a Service Processor
Configuring Service Processor Settings
How to Configure Service Processor Identification Information Settings
How to Configure Network Information Settings
How to Manage Oracle ILOM User Accounts
Configuring BIOS Boot Device Settings
How to Set the Boot Device Order
How to Set the Boot Device for the Next Boot
Setting Up PXE-Based Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant
How to Set Up the PXE Infrastructure
Preparing the Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant PXE Image Files
Launching an Attended PXE-Based Session
Attended PXE-Based Session Overview
How to Create the Image for a PXE-Based Session
How to Launch an Attended Installation From a PXE Server
Performing Unattended PXE-Based Provisioning Tasks
Unattended PXE-Based Provisioning Tasks Requirements
Creating a State File for Unattended Installation
How to Prepare for an Unattended Installation of Linux
How to Prepare for an Unattended Installation of Windows Server
How to Prepare for an Unattended Firmware Update
How to Create the Application Image and Prepare for a PXE-Based Launch
How to Launch an Unattended Session From a PXE-Based Server
Observing Unattended PXE-Based Provisioning Tasks
Establishing a Viewing Connection Using a Virtual Console or Secure Shell (SSH) Connection
How to Set Up Root and VNC Passwords
How to Establish a Connection Using a VNC Viewer
How to Establish a Connection Using a Serial Console
Troubleshooting Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant
No Driver Found Message Appears During Oracle VM 2.2.1 Server Installation
Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant Can Go Into a Loop at Last OS Install Screen
Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant Error Messages
How to View the Application Log File
How to Debug a PXE Image That Does Not Boot
Launching Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant Using a USB Flash Drive
How to Get the Syslinux and Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant Software
Creating an Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant USB Flash Drive
How to Boot the USB Flash Drive and Launch Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant
How to Install Service Tags in Linux
The host bus adapter (HBA) controls internal disks or external disks connected to the server. Use the Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant application to update the firmware for supported adapters.
Note - The Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant application can perform firmware updates only. It cannot downgrade firmware.
Before You Begin
The Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant HBA firmware update process is not destructive to data on connected storage; however, a full backup of storage connected to the HBA is recommended.
The Select a Task screen appears.
Note - The Select a Task screen only appears if your server supports additional tasks other than OS installation. It does not appear if the only available task is OS installation. Additionally, the Select a Task screen only lists task options supported for your server.
The HBA Firmware Upgrade screen appears. The screen lists the discovered host bus adapters, the current firmware version, and the available update version.
Note - If you performed an Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant Update during the current session (described in How to Launch Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant Using Local or Remote Media), then the application has the latest code from the Oracle software download site.
If the versions are the same, the firmware is up-to-date.
Note - In a multi-controller system, all controllers should be at the same firmware level. However, you can update non-boot controllers first, check functionality, and then update boot controllers.
Note - The updated code is not used by the system until after a reboot.
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