Sun Microsystems CP3250 manual Optional Hardware Components, Software Components

Note – Use only serial cables that are less than 10 meters in length.

1.6.2Optional Hardware Components

Sun Microsystems provides the following items for customer order:

■Compact Flash card

■AMCs

■Netra CP32x0 ARTM (optional)

The ARTM is optional and must be ordered separately from the Sun Netra CP3250 blade server.

The optional ARTM enables rear system I/O access to the following:

■Network

■Boot device

■Two hot-swappable SAS hard disk drives (optional)

■Console terminal (FIGURE 1-3).

■Sun Netra CP3240 switch (optional)

The Sun Netra CP3240 switch is capable of operating at 10 GbE, but is set by default to operate at 1GbE. To use the switch at 10 GbE, perform a one-time configuration procedure, available in the Sun Netra CP3x40 Switch Product Notes (820-3260).

1.6.3Software Components

The following OSs are certified for use on Sun Netra CP3250 blade server:

■Solaris™ 10 (05/08) Operating System (Solaris OS)

■WindRiver Linux 3.1

■RedHat Linux 5.2

■Windows 2003

Additional OSs are being tested and will be supported after they are certified.

Refer to the Netra CP3250 Blade Server Product Notes (820-5194) for more Solaris OS information, including a list of any required Netra software patches and support for subsequent versions of Solaris and other OSs. You can view and download the latest version of the product notes at the following web site:

http://docs.sun.com

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