Hello,
I am a newbie concerning administrating Solaris 10 and Sparc sever (experience with FreeBSD and Linux) , we get back one T5220 server with Solaris 10 and I would like to start with a fresh install of Solaris 10 (get rip of old things and remove the raid array to get more disk space). We will use it as a X11/vncsessions server. We do not have any support from Oracle, we bought this box on ebay.
My questions are:
- Do I need to apply patch for ILOM before doing anything (I don't want to be stuck with a firmware update that failed and lose the box because I will not be able to recover) ?
- Does the dvd iso image, downloaded from Oracle's web site will work ?
- During installation, will I face a license problem ?
ILOM information:
-> version
SP firmware 3.0.12.4.p
SP firmware build number: 66499
SP firmware date: Wed Aug 10 14:13:58 PDT 2011
SP filesystem version: 0.1.22
The Sparc information:
$ prtconf -vb
name: SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise-T5220
banner-name: SPARC Enterprise T5220
compatible: 'sun4v'
idprom: 01850021.280ff0b6.00000000.0ff0b68d.00000000.00000000.00000000.00000000
openprom model: SUNW,4.33.0.b
openprom version: 'OBP 4.33.0.b 2011/05/16 16:27'
$ cat /etc/release
Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 s10s_u10wos_17b SPARC
Copyright (c) 1983, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Assembled 23 August 2011
$ showrev
Hostname: gsc070.XXXXX.YY
Hostid: 850ff0b6
Release: 5.10
Kernel architecture: sun4v
Application architecture: sparc
Hardware provider: Oracle Corporation
Domain: BLA-BLA-BLA
Kernel version: SunOS 5.10 Generic_147440-19
$ uname -a
SunOS svncserver 5.10 Generic_147440-19 sun4v sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise-T5220
Thank you in advance for any help
Yves