Oracle SPARC User Manual

Matching Devices to Device Names
These topics explain how to identify drives and other devices on the server with names that are
recognized by or displayed by software and firmware. The same physical device is known by
different types of names in different contexts.
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“Importance of Matching a Physical Device to a Name” on page 69
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“WWN Syntax” on page 70
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“Display Server Components (Oracle ILOM)” on page 71
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“Locate Device Paths (OpenBoot)” on page 72
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“Correlate WWN Device Names With Physical Locations (diskinfo
Command)” on page 72
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“probe-scsi-all Device Naming (OpenBoot)” on page 74
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“Correlate WWN Device Names With Physical Locations (probe-scsi-all
Command)” on page 75
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“Identify a Disk Slot (Oracle Solaris)” on page 76
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“WWN Syntax in an Oracle Solaris 10 Installation on an Individual Drive” on page 78
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“WWN Syntax in an Oracle Solaris 10 Installation on a RAID Volume” on page 79
Related Information
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“Configuring SP and Host Network Addresses” on page 63
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“Configuring Hardware RAID” on page 81
Importance of Matching a Physical Device to a Name
These are some situations when you must correlate a logical device name with the device's
physical location.
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When downloading the OS over a network, you must specify the logical device name of the
drive in slot 0 (the default boot device).
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Oracle SPARC Specifications

General

Operating System	Oracle Solaris
Virtualization	Oracle VM Server for SPARC
Processor	SPARC
Threads per Core	8
Memory Type	DDR4
Storage	SAS, SATA
Security Features	Cryptographic Acceleration