Implementing Sun Solaris on IBM Bladecenter Servers
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Front cover Implementing Sun Solaris on IBM BladeCenter Servers Install and deploy Solaris 10 on the latest BladeCenter servers Configure Boot from SAN with Fibre Channel Management using SNMP and IBM Director David Watts Jim Blue William Champion Bradley Thomas ibm.com/redbooks Redpaper International Technical Support Organization Implementing Sun Solaris on IBM BladeCenter Servers May 2007 REDP-4269-00 Note: Before using this information and the product it supports, read the information in “Notices” on page v. First Edition (May 2007) This edition applies to Sun Solaris 10 11/06 on IBM BladeCenter servers. © Copyright International Business Machines Corporation 2007. All rights reserved. Note to U.S. Government Users Restricted Rights -- Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp. Contents Notices . .v Trademarks . vi Preface . vii The team that wrote this IBM Redpaper . vii Become a published author . viii Comments welcome. ix Chapter 1. Technical overview . 1 1.1 Solaris 10 overview . 2 1.1.1 Solaris Containers. 2 1.1.2 DTrace . 3 1.1.3 Predictive Self-Healing . 4 1.1.4 ZFS . 4 1.2 BladeCenter overview . 5 1.2.1 BladeCenter H chassis . 6 1.2.2 BladeCenter HT chassis . 9 1.2.3 Blade servers . 14 1.2.4 BladeCenter HS21 XM server. 15 1.2.5 BladeCenter LS21 server . 16 1.3 AMD Opteron architecture . 18 1.3.1 64-bit extensions: AMD64. 21 1.3.2 The benefit of AMD64 64-bit computing . 22 1.3.3 64-bit memory addressing. 23 1.4 Application migration. 23 1.4.1 Application Binary Interface . 24 1.4.2 Solaris Compatibility Assurance Toolkit . 24 1.5 IBM software supported on Solaris . 27 Chapter 2. Installation. 29 2.1 Installation . 30 2.1.1 Disabling Reboot on NMI . 30 2.1.2 Patches to the 11/06 version . 31 2.1.3 Installing Solaris 10. 32 2.2 Boot from SAN . 32 2.2.1 Boot from SAN overview. 32 2.2.2 Topology overview . 33 2.2.3 Configuration overview . 33 2.3 Use of a Solaris Installation Server . 39 2.3.1 Setting up an install server . 40 2.3.2 Setting up a boot server . 41 2.3.3 Patching the Install Server for LS21/HS21 installations . 42 2.3.4 Creating an updated DVD image and installing onto an LS21 . 45 2.3.5 Creating a DHCP and PXE server . 46 Chapter 3. Management . 51 3.1 Advanced Management Module . 52 3.1.1 Chassis management . 52 3.1.2 Management module login . 54 © Copyright IBM Corp. 2007. All rights reserved. iii 3.1.3 Advanced Management Module Command-Line Interface. 57 3.2 IBM Director . 57 3.2.1 Discovery . 58 3.2.2 SNMP browser . 59 3.2.3 Managing MIBs . 61 3.2.4 Compiling MIBs. 62 3.2.5 Loading MIBs into memory . 63 3.2.6 Traps. 64 3.2.7 Monitors . 65 3.3 Deploying Solaris with the ServerGuide Scripting Toolkit . 65 3.4 Altiris Deployment Solution . 66 3.5 Advanced Setup Utility . 66 3.5.1 Using the ASU definition files . 66 3.5.2 Using the ASU command . 67 3.6 Sun Management Center . 68 3.7 Sun Connection. 71 Chapter 4. Storage . 73 4.1 LSI RAID and ServeRAID . 74 4.2 Fibre Channel . 75 4.2.1 Attaching to DS4000 storage . 75 4.2.2 Attaching to DS8000 storage . 79 Abbreviations and acronyms . 85 Related publications . ..