Hot-Plugging Sun Blade 8000 Chassis Modules

Because the Sun Blade 8000 chassis systems support hot-pluggable I/O modules, the network boot device list reported by N1 System Manager might be stale if a Sun Blade X8400 Server Blade has not been reset for a very long time. If you select a blade for provisioning using a stale network boot device list and you specify a logical interface using the load server command or use the load server command defaults, then the interface might not map to the expected physical port. Provisioning will fail if the interface you specify does not map to the correct physical port.

Use either of the two following methods to ensure mapping to proper physical port.

• Best practice: When using the load server command to provision a blade, always explicitly specify a physical interface name for the bootnetworkdevice and networkdevice options. For further information about these options, see Chapter 3, Provisioning Sun Blade X8400 Server Modules in the Sun Blade 8000 Chassis, in Sun N1 System Manager 1.3.1 What’s New and load server in Sun N1 System Manager 1.3 Command Line Reference Manual

• Refresh the network boot device list as follows using either the n1sh shell or the N1 System Manager browser interface command line pane.

  1. Type reset server server where server is the blade that is to be provisioned.

  2. Type set server server refresh to refresh the network boot device list.

  3. Type show server server to display the server information.

  4. Choose the logical interface name based on the boot device list shown when using the load server command. If you do not specify any options, the first entry in the boot list is used.