Sun Microsystems X6450 - Manual (Page 17)

Chapter 1 Introduction 7
After you have configured one or more remote drives, you can proceed with the
operating system installation. From the point of view of the operating system
installation, when remote drives are installed and configured correctly, they operate
the same as local drives. They should appear in the list when the operating system
installation procedure queries for where to install the operating system.
If the operating system installation procedure requires you to select a boot device in
the BIOS, see
“Accessing BIOS Configuration Utilities and Selecting a Boot Device”
on page 14 .
Compact Flash Drive
The Sun Blade X6450 is equipped with a compact flash device that can support some
operating systems. It is the only local option for installing an operating system.
The following operating systems support booting from compact flash:
■ S10 U4 (64-bit) or later
■ RHEL4.6 (32/64-bit) or later
■ RHEL5.0 (64-bit) or later
■ SLES9 Sp4 (64-bit)
■ SLES10 Sp1 (64-bit) or later
■ VMware ESX 3.0.2+
■ Windows 2003 32-bit and 64-bit
■ Windows 2008 32-bit and 64-bit
The compact flash drive supports a finite number of writes before its performance
degrades. You can mitigate the limited number of writes by configuring it to redirect
the log files (the /var and /tmp directories) to another location. See your operating
system documentation for details.
Solid State Disk Drive (SSD)
The SSD is a 32-gigabyte solid-state SATA drive that mounts on the motherboard.
Note – This feature requires a F540-7821-01 or newer motherboard, with 2.0
software installed. The motherboard part number appears on the motherboard, and
can be read using the service processor.
When an SSD is present, it appears as a disk device which is controlled by the
onboard SATA controller. You can install an operating system on it.