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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

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Using This Documentation

Chapter 1 HBA Overview

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

Utilities Overview

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)

To Prepare to Use the FCode Utility (SPARC)

To Create a RAID Volume With the FCode Utility (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 Create a RAID Volume (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

Next Steps

Chapter 4 HBA Software Installation

Chapter 5 Activating Volumes

Chapter 6 Known Issues

Appendix A HBA Specifications

Glossary

Creating an Alias for a Bootable Drive (SPARC)

This section describes how to create an alias for the bootable drive in order to help simplify the process of booting the drive. This section contains the following topic:

To Create an Alias for a Bootable Drive (SPARC)

  1. Issue the show-disks command to list the disks on the system.

    Note that, as shown in the following example, you can determine the HBA drives by looking for the LSI,sas@number label, where number is 0 for the first HBA detected, and increments for each additional HBA detected.

    {0} ok show-disks
    <...>
    a) /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@3/LSI,sas@0/disk
    b) /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@3/LSI,sas@1/disk
    c) /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@3/LSI,sas@2/disk
    <...>
    q) NO SELECTION
    Enter Selection, q to quit: 
    
  2. Select the bootable drive for which you want to create an alias.
    a) /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@3/LSI,sas@0/disk
    b) /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@3/LSI,sas@1/disk
    c) /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@3/LSI,sas@2/disk
    <...>
    q) NO SELECTION
    Enter Selection, q to quit: c
    /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@3/LSI,sas@2/disk has been selected.
    
  3. Use the nvalias alias-name HBA-drive-path command to create an alias for the bootable drive that you selected in (you can press Ctrl+Y to paste the device path).

    In the following example, the alias name is mydev.

    {0} ok nvalias mydev /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@3/LSI,sas@2/disk
    
  4. You can now boot from the bootable drive by using the boot alias-name command.
    {0} ok boot mydev
    
  5. To optionally add the bootable drive to the boot-device list and then automatically boot from the drive by controlling the boot device order, issue the following commands, as shown.
    {0} ok printenv boot-device
    boot-device = disk0 disk1
    {0} ok setenv boot-device mydev disk0
    boot-device = mydev disk0
    

    In this example, the mydev alias is set as disk0, the first disk in the boot device list. This results in the automatic booting of the bootable drive, /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@3/LSI,sas@2/disk.

  6. Install the Oracle Solaris OS on the bootable drive by following the steps in To Install the Oracle Solaris OS.