C H A P T E R 3
HBA Software Installation
After you have completed the hardware installation and powered on the computer, follow the instructions listed in this chapter for your operating system to install the HBA driver and any other utilities required for the installation.
This chapter contains the following topics:
■“Driver Software for the Solaris OS” on page 21
■“Installing Software for the Red Hat and SUSE Linux OSes” on page 22
■“Installing Software for Windows Server 2003 OS” on page 23
■“Configuration and Diagnostic Utilities” on page 24
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 supports the following functions:
■Connectivity verification
■Firmware version and checksum test
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