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Sun Storage 6 Gb SAS REM HBA Installation Guide For HBA Models SGX-SAS6-REM-Z and SG-SAS6-REM-Z |
Chapter 2 Hardware Installation and Removal
Chapter 3 Creating a Bootable Drive in a Preboot Environment
Overview of Creating a Bootable Drive in a Preboot Environment
Methods For Creating a Bootable Drive
Creating a Bootable Drive (SPARC)
To Create a Bootable Drive (SPARC)
Using the FCode Utility to Create a Bootable Drive (SPARC)
Creating an Alias for a Bootable Drive (SPARC)
To Create an Alias for a Bootable Drive (SPARC)
Creating a Bootable Drive (x86)
Using the UEFI Menu to Create a Bootable RAID Volume (x86)
To Verify the Drives and Their Slots (x86)
To Confirm the RAID Volume Creation (x86)
Using the BIOS Configuration Utility (Legacy BIOS Booting) to Create a Bootable Drive (x86)
To Prepare to Use the BIOS Configuration Utility
To Create a RAID Volume With the BIOS Configuration Utility (x86)
Selecting a Bootable Drive (x86)
To Select a Bootable Drive (x86)
Installing the Oracle Solaris OS
To Prepare to Install the Oracle Solaris OS
To Install the Oracle Solaris OS
This section describes how to use the FCode utility to set up a RAID volume on a SPARC system prior to installing the Oracle Solaris operating system (OS). You can then use the RAID volume as your boot drive upon which to install the Oracle Solaris OS. This section contains the following topics:
Before using the FCode utility to set up a RAID volume on a SPARC system, prepare to use the FCode utility by doing the following:
FCode commands can produce large amounts of detailed output. The xterm and gnome terminal windows provide scroll bar functionality, which helps with viewing such output.
The mpt_sas-based controllers will end with LSI,sas@number.
{0} ok show-devs <...> /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@3/LSI,sas@0 /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@3/LSI,sas@0/disk /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@3/LSI,sas@1 <...>
{0} ok select /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@3/LSI,sas@0
{0} ok select /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@3/LSI,sas@0 {0} ok .properties … subsystem-id 00003180
The REM cards contain a subsystem-ID of 00003180. To further specify the card, you can also display the SAS addresses of any connected drives by using the show-children command.
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You are now ready to use the FCode commands to optionally create a RAID volume on the HBA. For more information, see To Create a RAID Volume With the FCode Utility (SPARC). If you plan to install the OS onto a physical drive, go to To Create an Alias for a Bootable Drive (SPARC).
Perform the steps in this section if you want to optionally configure a RAID volume on a SPARC system. You can then install the Oracle Solaris operating system (OS) on that RAID volume.
{0} ok show-children MPT Version 2.00, Firmware Version 4.00.00.00 Target 9 <...>Unit 0 Disk SEAGATE ST914602SSUN146G0603 286739329 Blocks, 146 GB SASAddress 5000c5000b305b4d PhyNum 0 Target a Unit 0 Disk SEAGATE ST914602SSUN146G0603 286739329 Blocks, 146 GB SASAddress 5000c5000b304cad PhyNum 1 Target b Unit 0 Disk HITACHI H101414SCSUN146GSA23 286739329 Blocks, 146 GB SASAddress 5000cca000310015 PhyNum 2 Target c Unit 0 Disk HITACHI H101414SCSUN146GSA23 286739329 Blocks, 146 GB SASAddress 5000cca0002cf035 PhyNum 3
{0} ok 9 a create-raid0-volume -- for RAID 0, with targets 9 and a -- {0} ok 9 a b c create-raid10-volume -- for RAID 10 with targets 9, a, b and c --