Chapter 1 Sun Fire X2250 Server Overview 1-3
1.2.1 Preinstalled Software
If you ordered a hard drive with your Sun Fire X2250 server, the hard drive might
have the Solaris™ 10 Operating System preinstalled.
Note – The preinstalled Solaris 10 Operating System is a customer-orderable option.
For information on configuring a preinstalled operating system for the Sun Fire
X2250 server, refer to the Sun Fire X2250 Server Installation Guide (820-4591).
For further information on the Solaris 10 OS, see the Solaris 10 OS documentation at:
http://docs.sun.com
1.2.2 Supported Operating Systems
The following operating systems (or later versions) are supported for the Sun Fire
X2250 server:
■ Solaris 10 Operating System (5/08 or later) with Sun Java Enterprise System
(Java ES)
■ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.6 and 5.1 32-bit and 64-bit (Enterprise Server and
Advanced Server)
■ SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, (SP 1 or later) 64-bit (SUSE-certified)
■ Windows Server 2003 R2 32-bit and 64-bit (WHQL-certified)
See the Sun Fire X2250 Operating System Installation Guide (820-4592), and the
product-specific documentation for instructions on installing these operating
systems.
If you want to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 or 5 or SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 on the Sun Fire X2250 server, you can order it from the from the following web
site:
http://wwws.sun.com/software/linux/index.html
Support for additional operating systems will be available after the initial release of
the Sun Fire X2250 servers. Go to the following URL for information about the
operating systems currently supported:
http://sun.com/servers/x64/X2250/os.jsp