Chapter 3 • Software Installation
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♦ ♦ ♦ C H A P T E R 3
Software Installation
After you have completed the hardware installation and powered on the computer, follow the
instructions in this chapter for your operating system to install the HBA driver and any other
utilities required by the HBA.
This chapter contains the following topics:
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“Installing Software for the Oracle Solaris OS” on page 29
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“Installing Software for the Red Hat/SUSE Linux OS” on page 30
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“Installing Software for the VMware Technology” on page 35
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“Installing Software for the Windows OS” on page 35
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“Installing a CLI for Updating the BIOS and FCode” on page 37
Installing Software for the Oracle Solaris OS
This section contains the following topics:
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“Installing the Fibre Channel Driver” on page 29
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“Diagnostic Support for the Oracle Solaris OS” on page 30
Installing the Fibre Channel Driver
The
qlc
HBA driver for the Solaris OS is included with the Oracle Solaris 10 01/13 and
the Oracle Solaris 11.1 OSes (or later). You must load the latest
qlc
driver by installing the
appropriate platform patches and SRUs:
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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 1/13 (for the x86 environment)
: patches 149176-02 and 45649-04
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Oracle Solaris 11.1
: SRU 7
You can download these patches and SRUs at: