Safety and Compliance Information
Understanding Configuration Details
PCIe Physical Slot Assignments
Shipping Kit With Single-Unit CMA Comb (Part No. 7069640)
Shipping Kit With Multi-Piece CMA (Part No. 350-1662-02)
Rackmount Kit With Single-Piece CMA Comb (Part No. 7069640)
Rackmount Kit With Multi-Piece CMA (Part No. 350-1662-02)
Determine Correct Rackmount Hardware
Mark the Rackmounting Location
Install the Rackmount Hardware
CMA Kit (Single-Piece CMA Comb, Part No. 7069793)
Install the Single-Piece CMA Comb
CMA Kit (Multi-piece CMA, Part No. 7041990)
Installing the Shipping Brace Assembly
Determine Correct Shipping Brace Fasteners
Install the Bottom Rear Shipping Brace
Remove the Bottom Rear Shipping Brace
Connecting Data and Management Cables
Powering On the Server for the First Time
Connect a Terminal or Emulator to the SER MGT Port
Power on the System for the First Time
Reach a State to Install a Fresh OS (Oracle ILOM CLI)
Reach a State to Install a Fresh OS (Oracle ILOM Web Interface)
Oracle Solaris OS Configuration Parameters
Assigning a Static IP Address to the SP
Log In to the SP (SER MGT Port)
Assign a Static IP Address to the NET MGT Port
Accessing the Server Using Oracle ILOM
Display the Oracle ILOM Prompt
Installing Auto Service Request Software
Software Requirements (ASR Manager)
Minimum Software Requirements (Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine T5-8 Server)
Installing ASR Manager Components
Install the Oracle Automated Service Manager Package
Install Service Tools Bundle for Oracle Solaris Only
Install the Oracle Auto Service Request Package
Configure ASR on the Server (Oracle ILOM)
Configuring ASR on the Server (Oracle Solaris 11)
Enable the HTTP Receiver on the ASR Manager
Enable HTTPS on ASR Manager (Optional)
Register Server With Oracle Solaris 11 to ASR Manager
Approve and Verify ASR Activation
Managing Oracle Solaris 11 Boot Environments
Mount to a Different Build Environment
Reboot to the Original Boot Environment
Multiple boot environments reduce risk when updating or changing software because system administrators can create backup boot environments before making any updates to the system. If needed, they have the option of booting a backup boot environment.
The following examples show how having more than one Oracle Solaris boot environment and managing them with the beadm utility can be useful.
You can maintain more than one boot environment on your system and perform various updates on each of them as needed. For example, you can clone a boot environment by using the beadm create command. The clone you create is a bootable copy of the original. Then, you can install, test, and update different software packages on the original boot environment and on its clone.
Although only one boot environment can be active at a time, you can mount an inactive boot environment by using the beadm mount command. Then, you could use the pkg command with the alternate root (-R) option to install or update specific packages on that environment.
If you are modifying a boot environment, you can take a snapshot of that environment at any stage during modifications by using the beadm create command. For example, if you are doing monthly upgrades to your boot environment, you can capture snapshots for each monthly upgrade.
Use the command as follows:
# beadm create BeName@snapshotNamedescription
Use the format, BeName@snapshotdescription, where BeName is the name of an existing boot environment that you want to make a snapshot from. Enter a custom snapshot description to identify the date or purpose of the snapshot.
You can use the beadm list -s command to view the available snapshots for a boot environment.
Although a snapshot is not bootable, you can create a boot environment based on that snapshot by using the -e option in the beadm create command. Then you can use the beadm activate command to specify that this boot environment will become the default boot environment on the next reboot.
For more information about the advantages of having multiple Oracle Solaris 11 boot environments, see:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/E21801/snap3.html#scrolltoc