Sun Microsystems SG-XPCIE1FC-EM8-Z HBA Software Installation, Driver Software for the Solaris OS

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HBA Software Installation

After you have completed the hardware installation and powered on the system, follow the instructions in this chapter for your operating system to install the HBA driver and any other utilities that are required.

This chapter contains the following topics:

■“Driver Software for the Solaris OS” on page 25

■“Installing Software For the Red Hat and SUSE Linux OSes” on page 26

■“Installing Software For the Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008 OS” on page 27

■“Configuration and Diagnostic Utilities” on page 28

Driver Software for the Solaris OS

The HBA driver for the Solaris OS is included with the Solaris 10 1/06 (s10u1) OS release. No additional patches or packages are required to support the HBA on minimum supported versions of the Solaris 10 OS for x64/x86 systems.

Solaris Diagnostic Support

Diagnostic support for the HBA is included in the SunVTS™ software beginning with version 6.3. The SunVTS software is included with the Solaris 10 11/06 (s10u3) OS release, and is also available for download at:

http://www.sun.com/oem/products/vts

The emlxtest utility, which is included in the SunVTS software, supports the following functions:

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