Documentation, Support, and Training
Evaluating Product Compatibility
Form-Factor Physical Characteristics
Warranty and Technical Support
System Requirements and Options
Installing Optional Components
Preparing to Install the Blade Server
Power and Thermal Distribution
Required Cooling and Blade Impedance Curve
Local Network IP Addresses and Host Names
Connect the External I/O Cables
Connect Cables to a System Console Running the Oracle Solaris OS
Connect Cables to a System Console Not Running Oracle Solaris OS
Insert and Latch the Blade Server
Software and Firmware Upgrades
Software and Firmware Upgrades
Firmware and Blade Server Management
Creating a Boot Disk Server and Adding Clients
Create a Boot Server for Diskless Clients
Compact Flash Formatting for the Oracle Solaris OS
Multiplex Configuration of Zones 2 and 3
Advanced Rear Transition Module Connectors (Zone 3)
Locate Base MAC Address on Blade Server
Configuring and Using Serial Over LAN
Shut Down OS and Deactivate the Blade Server
Power Off and Remove the Blade Server
Create a boot server and apply the latest patches, as detailed in Create a Boot Server for Diskless Clients, before adding diskless clients.
IP address
Ethernet address
Host name
# cd /usr/sadm/bin
# ./smdiskless add -- -i ip_address -e Ethernet_address -n host_name \-x swapsize=name_server swap_size -x tz=time_zone -x locale=locale -x ns=name_service \-x nameserver=-x os=sparc.sun4v.Solaris_n -x root=/export/root/host_name \-x swap=/export/swap/ -x os=sparc.sun4v.Solaris_n -x root=/export/root/host_name \-x swap=/export/swap/
Where
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(Refer to the smdiskless(1M) man page for more information and options.)
For example:
# -x os=sparc.sun4v.Solaris_10 -x root=/export/root/client_host \ -x swap=/export/swap/client_host -x swapsize=999 -x tz=US/Pacific \ ./smdiskless add -- -i 129.144.214.99 -e 8:0:20:22:b3:aa -n client_host \-x locale=en_US -x ns=NIS -x nameserver=nameserver_host
Note - You must type your superuser password again after typing the command.
Caution - The installation process takes about 5 minutes per client and about 15-30 minutes for the operating environment service to install; however, no progress is displayed on screen while the process is running. Do not cancel or kill the process. Wait until the process has successfully completed. |
Messages similar to the following are displayed after the process is completed, confirming that the command was successful after typing your superuser password the second time:
Login to client_host as user root was successful. Download of com.sun.admin.osservermgr.cli.OsServerMgrCli from client_host was successful.