Sun Microsystems AND B100S User Manual

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1-4 Sun Fire™ B1600 Chassis and B100s, B100x, and B200x Blade Product Notes • May 20041.4 Viewing the Latest Documentation forthe Chassis and Its Comp

Chapter 1 Documentation and Miscellaneous Information 1-51.4.2 Documentation Errata In the printed version of the Sun Fire B1600 Blade System Chassis

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2-1CHAPTER2LinuxThis chapter contains the following sections: Section 2.1, “Installing Linux Onto a B100x or B200x Blade” on page 2-2 Section 2.2, “

2-2 Sun Fire™ B1600 Chassis and B100s, B100x, and B200x Blade Product Notes • May 20042.1 Installing Linux Onto a B100x or B200xBladeTo install the Li

Chapter 2 Linux 2-32.2 Upgrading the BIOS on B200x ServerBladesTo run Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 3.0 or SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8,service p

2-4 Sun Fire™ B1600 Chassis and B100s, B100x, and B200x Blade Product Notes • May 20042. Check the version of the BIOS currently running on the blade,

Chapter 2 Linux 2-52.3 B100x and B200x (Linux) Server BladeIssuesThe following problems have been observed on both B100x and B200x server blades: 486

2-6 Sun Fire™ B1600 Chassis and B100s, B100x, and B200x Blade Product Notes • May 2004 4991972: B200x blade locks into a repeated “boot net” loop fol

3-1CHAPTER3Solaris x86This chapter contains the following sections: Section 3.1, “Preparing to Install Solaris x86 Onto a Blade” on page 3-1 Section

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3-2 Sun Fire™ B1600 Chassis and B100s, B100x, and B200x Blade Product Notes • May 20043.1.1 Solaris x86 Drivers and DocumentationFor the first full re

Chapter 3 Solaris x86 3-33.1.2 Overview of the Solaris x86 Installation Process1. Set up a network install image for Solaris x86 using the Solaris 9 (

3-4 Sun Fire™ B1600 Chassis and B100s, B100x, and B200x Blade Product Notes • May 2004Further information about installing the Solaris 9 x86 operating

Chapter 3 Solaris x86 3-54. At the Solaris prompt on the system you are going to use as the Network InstallServer, unzip the files you have downloaded

3-6 Sun Fire™ B1600 Chassis and B100s, B100x, and B200x Blade Product Notes • May 20043.2.2 Creating a Network Install ServerTo install the Solaris x8

Chapter 3 Solaris x86 3-74. Add the patches and packages automatically to the network install server imageby typing:whereinstall_dir_path is the path

3-8 Sun Fire™ B1600 Chassis and B100s, B100x, and B200x Blade Product Notes • May 20043.3 Issues Affecting B100x and B200x ServerBlades That are Runni

Chapter 3 Solaris x86 3-94873161: Need Support for Soft Poweroff in Solaris x86Solaris x86 does not currently support power button events generated th

3-10 Sun Fire™ B1600 Chassis and B100s, B100x, and B200x Blade Product Notes • May 20044856440: Require hostid to Be Set From BSC on Solaris x86 B100x

Chapter 3 Solaris x86 3-114975579 Bootpath Line Missing After PXE Install With Single SolarisPartitionDuring an interactive Solaris installation the i

Contents iiiContents1. Documentation and Miscellaneous Information 1–11.1 Upgrading the BIOS on a B200x Server Blade 1–21.2 Before Installing Solaris

3-12 Sun Fire™ B1600 Chassis and B100s, B100x, and B200x Blade Product Notes • May 20044922593: Link Messages Seem to Contradict IPMP State During aSw

Chapter 3 Solaris x86 3-133.3.2 Error Messages That Can be Safely IgnoredThis section lists error messages that will be be observed during a networkin

3-14 Sun Fire™ B1600 Chassis and B100s, B100x, and B200x Blade Product Notes • May 2004Despite this message, the blade will perform a Jumpstart instal

Chapter 3 Solaris x86 3-154871718: bootstrap complains about devices that have been disabled inthe BIOSOn the B100x you will see the following message

3-16 Sun Fire™ B1600 Chassis and B100s, B100x, and B200x Blade Product Notes • May 20044321917: ACPI Resource Conflicts Unnecessarily ReportedDuring t

Chapter 3 Solaris x86 3-17FIGURE 3-1 The Network Interfaces on a B200x BladeThe B200x BIOS displays the network interfaces as shown in FIGURE 3-2.FIGU

3-18 Sun Fire™ B1600 Chassis and B100s, B100x, and B200x Blade Product Notes • May 2004The network interfaces are displayed by the DCA in the order in

Chapter 3 Solaris x86 3-19If you are configuring IPMP network redundancy, note that the achievement ofnetwork resilience (enabling a blade to recover

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4-1CHAPTER4SPARC SolarisThis chapter contains the following sections: Section 4.1, “Installing SPARC Solaris Onto a B100s Server Blade” on page 4-2

iv Sun Fire™ B1600 Chassis and B100s, B100x, and B200x Blade Product Notes • May 20043.1 Preparing to Install Solaris x86 Onto a Blade 3–13.1.1 Solari

4-2 Sun Fire™ B1600 Chassis and B100s, B100x, and B200x Blade Product Notes • May 20044.1 Installing SPARC Solaris Onto a B100sServer BladeTo install

Chapter 4 SPARC Solaris 4-3 4726915: SunVTS will not start because of missing XML librariesTo run SunVTS you need to load the SUNWlxml and SUNWlxmlx

4-4 Sun Fire™ B1600 Chassis and B100s, B100x, and B200x Blade Product Notes • May 2004 4811241: When you install Solaris with “Entire distribution pl

5-1CHAPTER5System ControllerThis chapter contains the following sections: Section 5.1, “Upgrading the System Controller (SC) Firmware” on page 5-2 S

5-2 Sun Fire™ B1600 Chassis and B100s, B100x, and B200x Blade Product Notes • May 20045.1 Upgrading the System Controller (SC)FirmwareTo support Sun F

Chapter 5 System Controller 5-33. At the sc> prompt, set a new password for the default user (admin).To set a new password for user admin, type:The

5-4 Sun Fire™ B1600 Chassis and B100s, B100x, and B200x Blade Product Notes • May 20045.3 System Controller Software Issues5.3.1 System Controller Fir

Chapter 5 System Controller 5-5 4866668: When the message ’Dynamic FRUID packet discovery failure recovered’shows in the logs for a blade, it is poss

5-6 Sun Fire™ B1600 Chassis and B100s, B100x, and B200x Blade Product Notes • May 20045.3.3 System Controller Firmware 1.0The following known problems

6-1CHAPTER6The System Chassis’s IntegratedSwitchThis chapter contains the following sections: Section 6.1, “Switch Firmware Issues” on page 6-2 Sect

Contents v6.3.1 Aggregated Links 6–106.3.2 Switch-to-switch Tagged VLAN Trunk Connections 6–116.4 Setting up a Tagged VLAN Trunk With Cisco Switches 6

6-2 Sun Fire™ B1600 Chassis and B100s, B100x, and B200x Blade Product Notes • May 20046.1 Switch Firmware IssuesThe following known problems apply to

Chapter 6 The System Chassis’s Integrated Switch 6-3 4871779: Blades are unable to receive multicast packets when IGMP querying isenabled.Multicastin

6-4 Sun Fire™ B1600 Chassis and B100s, B100x, and B200x Blade Product Notes • May 2004 4876495: The port status is unstableThere is a known problem w

Chapter 6 The System Chassis’s Integrated Switch 6-5The ports NETP0, NETP1, NETP4, NETP5, and SNP8 through SNP15 are on oneswitch chip. The ports NETP

6-6 Sun Fire™ B1600 Chassis and B100s, B100x, and B200x Blade Product Notes • May 2004the System Controller next time the switch boots. The command to

Chapter 6 The System Chassis’s Integrated Switch 6-7 4773408: Spanning tree mode cannot be set when spanning tree support isdisabledSetting the spann

6-8 Sun Fire™ B1600 Chassis and B100s, B100x, and B200x Blade Product Notes • May 20046.2 Issues Affecting the Web Graphical UserInterface to the Swit

Chapter 6 The System Chassis’s Integrated Switch 6-9 4828965: Disabling global GVRP state prevents dynamic VLANs from leavingportsIf you disable GVRP

6-10 Sun Fire™ B1600 Chassis and B100s, B100x, and B200x Blade Product Notes • May 2004 The pages of the web GUI include options for configuring an H

Chapter 6 The System Chassis’s Integrated Switch 6-11To implement a configuration combining the ports NETP0 and NETP1 into anaggregated link called ch

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6-12 Sun Fire™ B1600 Chassis and B100s, B100x, and B200x Blade Product Notes • May 20046.4 Setting up a Tagged VLAN Trunk WithCisco SwitchesThere is a

1-1CHAPTER1Documentation and MiscellaneousInformationThese Product Notes contain important information about this release of the SunFire B1600 blade s

1-2 Sun Fire™ B1600 Chassis and B100s, B100x, and B200x Blade Product Notes • May 20041.1 Upgrading the BIOS on a B200x ServerBladeTo run Red Hat Ente

Chapter 1 Documentation and Miscellaneous Information 1-31.3.2 Using the Sun Fire B10n Content Load BalancingBladeThe Sun Fire B10n Content Load Balan