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Sun Fire X4500 Server Guide for Preinstalled Solaris 10 OS • February 2007
After Installation
The Solaris OS is preinstalled on the hard disk in physical slot 0 and is mirrored on
the hard disk in physical slot 1. Hard disks in physical slot 2 through 26 are
configured as a single ZFS volume.
See the following documentation for more information about managing the server.
hd
Utility
Installing the
hd
utility is recommended. The
hd
utility enables you to map the
logical-to-physical devices for the server. You need to understand this mapping to
administer the system, manage the hard disks, and troubleshoot the system. The
hd
utility is available from:
■
SunVTS Bootable Diagnostic CD included in your system box
■
Preinstalled in
/usr/bin/hd
■
From the Downloads section of the following web site:
http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4500/support.xml
For more information about the utility, see the
Sun Fire X4500 Administration Guide
. If
you reinstall the Solaris 10 operating system, you will need to use the
pkgadd
command to reinstall the
hd
utility.
To learn about:
Read this:
Administering, configuring, and monitoring the server
including hard disk management, the
hd
utility and
preinstalled disk mirroring
Sun Fire X4500 Administration
Guide
Solaris Operating System installation options
Sun Fire X4500 OS Installation
Guide
and the Solaris 10 Release
and Installation documentation
Diagnosing problems, including SunVTS diagnostics
software, event logs and POST codes, LEDs and error
handling
Sun Fire X4500 Diagnostics Guide
ZFS filesystem
ZFS Administration Guide
