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SPARC Enterprise M3000/M4000/M5000/ M8000/M9000 Servers

Product Notes for XCP Version 1115

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Document Information

Using This Documentation

1.  Introduction

Hardware, Firmware, and Software Compatibility

Obtaining Oracle Solaris Patches

2.  Information About XCP 1115 Firmware

XCP Support for RAID-Capable IOUA Cards in M8000/M9000 Servers

Upgrading and Downgrading XCP

XCP Compatibility

Upgrading to This Release

Updating the OpenBoot PROM Firmware

Upgrading From a Version Earlier Than XCP 1050

Upgrading an M8000/M9000 Server From a Version Earlier Than XCP 1082

Domain Restart Required After Certain Type of XCP Upgrade

Downgrading XCP Firmware

XCP Functionality Issues and Limitations

XCP Known Issues (CRs) and Workarounds

3.  Information About Software

Software Compatibility

Capacity on Demand (COD)

COD Changes in XCP 1101

COD Changes in XCP 1102

Sun Flash Accelerator F20 PCIe Card

Remote Initial Login

Fault Management

Identifying Degraded Memory in a System

To Identify Degraded Memory in a System

Sun Java Enterprise System

Enabling the Web Console SMF Service

To Enable the Web Console SMF Service

Software Functionality Issues and Limitations

Oracle Solaris OS Issues (CRs) and Workarounds

Known Issues in All Supported Oracle Solaris Releases

Issues Fixed in Oracle Solaris 10 8/11

Issues Fixed in Oracle Solaris 10 9/10

Issues Fixed in Oracle Solaris 10 10/09

Issues Fixed in Oracle Solaris 10 5/09

Issues Fixed in Oracle Solaris 10 10/08

Issues Fixed in Oracle Solaris 10 5/08

Issues Fixed in Oracle Solaris 10 8/07

Software Documentation Updates

Updates for Man Pages

Updates for Software Manuals

4.  Information About Hardware

Important Notes, Issues and Workarounds – All M-Series Servers

Hardware Compatibility

Booting From a WAN Boot Server

Booting Multiple Systems From a Single J4200 JBOD Storage Array

Notes on the Use of USB Memory

Hardware Functionality Issues and Limitations

Important Notes, Issues and Workarounds – M3000 Servers Only

Patches for Emulex PCI Express (PCIe) Cards

Daughter Card Installed on the MBU_A

Hardware Functionality Issues and Limitations

Important Notes, Issues and Workarounds – M4000/M5000 and M8000/M9000 Servers Only

For M4000/M5000 Servers Determine if any CPUM is Licensed Under Capacity On Demand (COD)

For M8000/M9000 Servers Determine if any CPU is Licensed Under COD

M9000 Server Installation Area

Warning Label on M9000 Server AC Section

RAID-Capable IOUA

DVD Drives and cfgadm

F20 PCIe Cards

Sun Crypto Accelerator 6000 Cards

U320 PCIe SCSI Card

Patches for QLogic PCIe Cards

Patches for Emulex PCI Express (PCIe) Cards

Hardware Functionality Issues and Limitations

Hardware Documentation Updates for the M3000 Server

Hardware Documentation Updates for the M4000/M5000 Servers

Hardware Documentation Updates for the M8000/M9000 Servers

XCP Functionality Issues and Limitations

This section describes known XCP firmware issues.


Note - Do not use the service processor (SP) as the Network Time Protocol (NTP) server. Using an independent NTP server provides optimal reliability in maintaining consistent time on the SP and the domains. For more information about NTP, refer to the Sun Blueprint document, Using NTP to Control and Synchronize System Clocks at the following site: https://wikis.oracle.com/display/CommSuite/Messaging+Server+NFS+Guidelines+and+Requirements


Table 2-1 XCP Functionality Issues and Limitations

M3000
M4000M500
M8000M9000
Description
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You cannot use the following user account names, as they are reserved for system use: adm, admin, apache, bin, daemon, default, ldap, nobody, ntp, operator, proxyuser, root, rpc, rpcuser, and sshd. See Remote Initial Login.
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An XSCF user account user name cannot match an LDAP user name, and an XSCF user account number (UID) cannot match an LDAP UID number.
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When you import XCP or update the firmware using the XSCF, you might see Web session ID errors displayed on the web browser. When you specify the timeout period as over 30 minutes in the Autologout setting, Internal Server Errors might be displayed. To reconnect to the XSCF Web, close the current browser and open the new browser.
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Before using the XSCF Web, disable pop-up blocking and remove any plug-ins such as the search tool installed with the browser.
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XSCF-LAN is compliant with auto-negotiation. Set the network device that connects with XSCF-LAN to the auto-negotiation mode. Otherwise when you connect the XSCF-LAN and the network device (fixed to the full-duplex mode, according to the IEEE 802.3 rule) the XSCF-LAN communicates in half-duplex mode and network communication speed might slow down or communication errors might occur.
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For this XCP release, the XSCF browser user interface (XSCF Web) does not support the External I/O Expansion Unit Manager feature.
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Due to DR and ZFS file system interoperability issues, M4000/M5000 servers are shipped pre-installed using the UFS file system. See CR 6660168.
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The XCP 1093 release was the first XCP release to support a domain running Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 with the processor groups observability feature enabled. Please refer to Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 OS Product Notes for more information.