Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant

The Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant application is a provisioning tool for Sun Fire and Sun Blade x86 servers. The application guides you through server setup and maintenance by providing a single interface that facilitates server installation, configuration, maintenance, and recovery tasks.

Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant includes the following features and benefits:

• Supports multiple boot media options. Launch the Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant application from either a local drive attached to the server (CD/DVD or USB flash drive), a remote redirected network drive (virtual CD/DVD drive or ISO image), or an image available on your PXE network environment.

• Guides you through OS installation and provides Oracle-certified server- and configuration-specific device drivers for optional accessory cards and other system hardware.

• Guides you in RAID configuration for servers that contain an integrated LSI disk controller. Support is for RAID 0 and RAID 1 integrated mirror or integrated mirror enhanced (striping). Assisted RAID 1 configuration is also available (beginning with Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant 2.4) for LSI SAS-2 controllers (926x, 9280).

• Provides a specific set of service processor and Oracle ILOM configuration capabilities.

  • Enables management of Oracle ILOM user account settings and configuration of network settings, system clock, and system identification information.

  • Allows BIOS-level boot device priority configuration and next boot device selection.

• Updates firmware for:

  • System BIOS and Oracle ILOM firmware

  • Host Bus Adapter (HBA) firmware

  • Expander firmware