Sun Microsystems Sun Blade T6320, User Manual

Page 1: ...rosystems Inc www sun com Submit comments about this document at http www sun com hwdocs feedback Sun Blade T6320 XAUI Pass Through Fabric Expansion Module User s Guide Part No 820 4777 11 July 2008 Revision A ...

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Page 3: ...ments 3 Features 4 2 Installing the Fabric Expansion Module 5 Installing the FEM 5 Verifying the Hardware Installation 6 3 Configuration Information 9 A Specifications 11 Performance Specifications 11 Physical Characteristics 12 Power Requirements 12 B Diagnostic Software 13 SunVTS Diagnostic Software 13 ...

Page 4: ...4 Sun Blade T6320 XAUI Pass Through Fabric Expansion Module User s Guide July 2008 Using the SunVTS xnetlbtest 14 xnetlbtest Test Requirements 14 ...

Page 5: ...r 1 provides an overview of the Sun Blade T6320 XAUI Pass Through Fabric Expansion Module features Chapter 2 describes how to install the Sun Blade T6320 XAUI Pass Through Fabric Expansion Module in your system and to verify that it has been installed correctly Chapter 3 describes how to find more information on configuring the FEM Appendix A lists the specifications for the Sun Blade T6320 XAUI P...

Page 6: ...uch as shutting down the system booting the system and configuring devices Refer to the following for this information Software documentation that you received with your system Solaris Operating System documentation which is at http docs sun com Shell Prompts Shell Prompt C shell machine name C shell superuser machine name Bourne shell and Korn shell Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser ...

Page 7: ...mphasized Replace command line variables with real names or values Read Chapter 6 in the User s Guide These are called class options You must be superuser to do this To delete a file type rm filename Application Title New information patches and changes to the FEM Sun Blade T6320 XAUI Pass Through Fabric Expansion Module Product Notes 820 5383 Server Module Service Troubleshooting and ILOM informa...

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Page 9: ...rements on page 3 Features on page 4 Product Description The Sun Blade T6320 XAUI Pass Through Fabric Expansion Module FEM connects to the Sun Blade T6320 server module motherboard by two square NexLev connectors FIGURE 1 1 The FEM transmits two sets of x4 XAUI 10 Gigabit Ethernet lanes from the Sun Blade T6320 server module to the Sun Blade 6000 10GbE Multi Fabric Network Express Module FIGURE 1 ...

Page 10: ...2 Sun Blade T6320 XAUI Pass Through Fabric Expansion Module User s Guide July 2008 FIGURE 1 1 FEM Module for the Sun Blade T6320 Server Module ...

Page 11: ... meets the minimum hardware and software requirements in TABLE 1 1 TABLE 1 1 Minimum Hardware Software and Firmware Versions System or OS Software or Firmware Version Sun Blade T6320 server module System Firmware 7 0 9 c with patch 127581 01 or later Sun Blade 6000 Modular System Chassis Sun Blade 6000 Modular System Chassis Operating System Solaris 10 8 07 OS with patch 127127 11 and 136933 02 or...

Page 12: ...2002 compliant Hardware based flow classification for extending parallelism and virtualization to networking Supports up to eight receive DMA channels and up to 12 transmit DMA channels multiple receive and transmit descriptor rings and dedicated networking hardware resources DMA interrupts buffer and more for each thread or strand CPU thread affinity and CPU load balancing at L1 L2 L3 and L4 Jumb...

Page 13: ...ass Through Fabric Expansion Module into a server module running Solaris 10 software you must install the Solaris OS and patches before you install the hardware Installing the FEM The following instructions describe the basic tasks required to install the FEM inside a blade server module To Install the FEM With the Power Off 1 Halt and power off your system 2 Attach the adhesive copper strip of th...

Page 14: ... system 6 Slide the FEM card at an angle into the support bracket then press it carefully into the connector FIGURE 2 1 Installing the FEM Verifying the Hardware Installation After you install the Sun Blade T6320 XAUI Pass Through Fabric Expansion Module perform the following tasks to verify the installation To Verify the Hardware Installation 1 Power on the system ...

Page 15: ...o not see the network devices verify that the FEM is properly seated To Reboot the System After verifying the FEM installation perform a reconfiguration boot on your system Type the following ok show nets a pci 0 pci 0 pci c network 0 1 b pci 0 pci 0 pci c network 0 c niu 80 network 1 d niu 80 network 0 q NO SELECTION Enter Selection q to quit ok boot r ...

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Page 17: ...essModule User s Guide 820 1606 Configuring the Network Configuring the nxge Device Driver Parameters Configuring the Jumbo Frames Feature Configuring Link Aggregation Configuring VLANs The Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCIe ExpressModule User s Guide 820 1606 is available at this URL http docs sun com app docs prod 10gbe xfp pcie 10gbe xfp pem hic ...

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Page 19: ...e Specifications on page 11 Physical Characteristics on page 12 Power Requirements on page 12 Performance Specifications TABLE A 1 Performance Specifications Feature Specification Bus type Two x4 lanes XAUI Bus speed x8 encoded rate 20Gbit sec unidirectional 40Gbit sec bidirectional theoretical Maximum Ethernet transfer rate 10Gbps full duplex Optics 10GBASE SR IEEE 802 3ae 2002 compliant ...

Page 20: ...cteristics Power Requirements TABLE A 2 Physical Characteristics of the Express Module Dimension Measurement Length 139 7 mm 5 5 inches Width 114 3 mm 4 5 inches Height 112 mm 4 4 inches TABLE A 3 Environmental Requirements Specification Measurement Power consumption 3 5 W RMS nominal 5 0 W maximum ...

Page 21: ...er interface SunVTS is used to verify the configuration and functionality of most hardware controllers and devices The SunVTS software operates primarily from a graphical user interface enabling test parameters to be set quickly and easily while a diagnostic test operation is being performed The SunVTS nettest diagnostic can be used to test all of the networking interfaces on the system including ...

Page 22: ... in the GUI if the network interface is connected to a live network xnetlbtest also requires that the Ethernet device be configured offline before running the test Use the ifconfig 1M command to bring the Ethernet device down before running xnetlbtest Enter the following commands to bring the interface down Where nxge0 is the 10GbE port on your server module TABLE B 1 SunVTS Documentation Title De...