Oracle Solaris OS Installation Procedure

How to Install the Oracle Solaris OS

1. Install the HBA hardware.

   Follow the instructions in the appropriate Sun HBA installation guide found at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/documentation/oracle-storage-networking-190061.html.

   If you select an automatic installation and you want to select specific devices to be installed during the installation, see Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Installation Guide: Basic Installations.

2. Install the OracleSolaris OS.

How to Perform a DVD or Network-Based OS Installation

After installing the HBA, perform the following steps for a DVD installation or an network-based installation of the Oracle Solaris OS on an x86 based system.

For more information, refer to Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Installation Guide: Basic Installations..

1. If you are installing from a DVD-ROM rather than over a network, insert the Oracle Solaris Software into the DVD-ROM drive.
2. Upon initial power up, provide the system BIOS and configure it to boot from either the network or DVD-ROM as applicable.

   The system BIOS setup screens are different for each system BIOS vendor. For example, from the BIOS setup screen, select the disk as the boot device.

   For detailed information regarding your server's BIOS, see your system platform's administration guide.

3. Install the Oracle Solaris OS by selecting one of the following methods..
   

   Figure 7-1 Selecting an FC-based Boot Disk During Disk Selection

   

   • JumpStart (automatic) installation – If you have a Solaris 10 installation server available, you can begin the automated installation by selecting a network boot from the x86 based system's BIOS. If you select an automatic installation, skip to step 7.

   • Interactive text installation – You can begin an interactive installation by selecting the appropriate option from the GRUB menu when booted from media or when booted from an installation server.

     After the installation is complete, you can exit the installer and configure the devices.

4. Interactive text installation – select a desired array and its associated LUN.
5. Interactive text installation – Continue the installation by selecting the desired installation options from each installation menu.
6. Interactive text installation – At the end of the installation screens, verify your selections to start the Oracle Solaris OS installation.
7. Before rebooting after the installation completes, issue the luxadm display command on the boot LUN.

   See Figure 7-2.

   # luxadm display /dev/rdsk/c0t600015D0002028000000000000001142d0s2
   DEVICE PROPERTIES for disk: /dev/rdsk/c0t600015D0002028000000000000001142d0s2
     Vendor:     SUN
     Product ID:     SE6920
     Revision:     0202
     Serial Num:     00500057
     Unformatted capacity:     10240.000 MBytes
     Read Cache:     Enabled
       Minimum prefetch:     0x0
       Maximum prefetch:     0xffff
     Device Type:     Disk device
     Path(s):
   
     /dev/rdsk/c0t600015D0002028000000000000001142d0s2
     /devices/scsi_vhci/disk@g600015d0002028000000000000001142:c,raw
      Controller     /dev/cfg/c4
       Device Address          213600015d207200,0
       Host controller port WWN          210100e08b206812
       Class          primary
       State          ONLINE
      Controller     /dev/cfg/c11
       Device Address          213600015d207200,0
       Host controller port WWN          210100e08b30a2f2
       Class          primary
       State          ONLINE

   
   

   Figure 7-2 luxadm display Command and Output

   

   The following luxadm command output from the example in the figure can be used to map the MPxIO based c#t#d# to the HBA WWN and array WWN:

   • MPxIO c#t#d# = c0t600015d00020280000000000000001142d0

   • Array WWN = 213600015d207200, LUN 0

   • HBA WWNs = 210100e08b206812 and 210100e08b30a2f2

8. During the reboot process, watch the monitor so you can enter the HBA #1 BIOS screen and specify the boot device to be the FC LUN onto which you just installed the Oracle Solaris OS.

   Follow this step for each HBA to be used for multipathing, and specify the boot device to be the FC LUN on which you installed the Sun Solaris OS. See Figure 7-3 and Figure 7-4.

   • For the QLogic HBA BIOS, perform the following steps.
     1. During host rebooting, press Control-Q to display the HBA BIOS screen.
     2. Select the HBA that you want to enable as the boot device and enable boot.
     3. Configure the boot device:
        1. Select Configuration Settings.
        2. Select Selectable Boot Settings.
        3. Make sure that Selectable Boot is set to enable.

           In this menu, you can select the boot device/LUN by the array WWPN.

        4. Save and then exit the HBA BIOS screen.
   • For the Emulex HBA BIOS, perform the following steps.
     1. During host rebooting, press Alt-E to display the HBA BIOS screen.
     2. Select the HBA that you want to enable as the boot device and enable boot.
     3. Select Configure Boot Devices.
     4. Select a boot entry.
     5. Select the WWPN of the desired boot device.
     6. Type the LUN number.
     7. Select the boot LUN.
     8. Select Boot Device with the Array WWPN.
     9. Save and exit the HBA BIOS screen.
        

        Figure 7-3 HBA BIOS Screen for an HBA WWN

        
        

        Figure 7-4 HBA BIOS Screen for Enabling Boot From the FC LUN

        

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   Note -

   The figure shows the following modifications:

   • Selectable boot = Enabled

   • ARRAY WWN = 213600015d207200

   • ARRAY LUN = 0

   • HBA WWN = 210100e08b206812

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9. Repeat the appropriate modifications for all HBAs and all LUNs.
10. Type the system BIOS per the vendor’s access method and specify the boot device to be the FC LUN on which you installed the Oracle Solaris OS.
11. Reboot to the newly installed Oracle Solaris OS by using the FC LUN specified in the system BIOS.