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♦ ♦ ♦ C H A P T E R 4
HBA Software Installation
After you have completed the hardware installation and powered on the system, follow the
instructions presented 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:
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“Installing the Oracle Solaris Driver and Firmware” on page 53
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“Installing the Linux Driver and Firmware” on page 54
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“Installing the Windows Server Driver and Firmware” on page 55
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“Installing the VMware Driver and Firmware” on page 55
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“Installing the RAID Configuration Utility” on page 56
Installing the Oracle Solaris Driver and Firmware
The latest driver (
mpt_sas
) for this HBA is included as part of the Oracle Solaris 10 01/13 OS
and the Oracle Solaris 11.1 OS. You can obtain the latest version of the Oracle Solaris OS at:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris10/overview/index.html
The HBA requires the the following patches and SRUs, at minimum, for the driver to work:
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Oracle Solaris 10 01/13 (for the SPARC environment)
: patches 149175-02 and 145648-
04
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Oracle Solaris 10 01/13 (for the x86 environment)
: patches 149176-02 and 45649-04
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Oracle Solaris 11.1
: SRU 7
You can obtain these Solaris patches at:
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