iv Sun Fire V890 Server Owner’s Guide • September 2004
Locating Rear Panel Features 9
About the Status and Control Panel 11
LED Status Indicators 12
Power Button 13
Security Keyswitch 14
About Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability Features 15
Hot-Pluggable Disk Drives and PCI Cards 16
N+1 Power Supply Redundancy 16
Hot-Swappable Power Supplies 17
Redundant, Hot-Swappable Fan Trays 17
Environmental Monitoring and Control 17
Thermal Monitoring 18
Fan Monitoring 18
Power Subsystem Monitoring 18
Automatic System Recovery 19
Hardware Watchdog Mechanism 19
Remote System Control Software 20
Dual-Loop Enabled FC-AL Mass Storage Subsystem 20
Support for RAID Storage Configurations 21
Error Correction and Parity Checking 21
Status LEDs 21
Four Levels of Diagnostics 22
2. Setting Up the System 23
About the Parts Shipped to You 23
How to Install the Sun Fire V890 Server 24
Before You Begin 24
What to Do 24
About Setting Up a Console 30