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Sun Server X2-8 (formerly Sun Fire X4800 M2) Product Notes Sun Server X2-8 (formerly Sun Fire X4800 M2) Documentation Library |
Overview of the Sun Server X2-8 Product Notes
Supported Software and Firmware
Preinstalled Oracle Operating Systems Available
Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant Might Not Support RHEL 5.6 or Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.6
NEM Expander Firmware Upgrade Required
Included Third Party Technology
Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center
MegaRAID Storage Manager (MSM)
SunVTS Bootable Diagnostics CD-ROM
Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM)
Do Not Mix Dual-Rank and Quad-Rank DIMMs
MegaCLI CfgEachDskRaid0 Command Does Not Work Correctly (CR 7121867)
When Inserting a CMOD, Simultaneously Rotate Levers Until They Touch the CMOD
Servers Shipped with a Maximum of Six Combo GbE/8Gb FC Express Module HBA Cards (CR 7050075)
Disabling of DIMM Pairs When Server Detects Faulty DIMM (CR 7011011)
LEDs and Logs Incorrectly Indicate that CMOD has Failed (CR 7033674)
Flow Control on Serial Port Doesn't Work (CR 7014405)
Oracle Solaris Operating System Issues
Oracle Solaris OS Requirements
Oracle Solaris 11 Panics When Rebooting with an SG-XEMFCOE2-Q-SR (CR 7157040 and CR 7095128)
Performance Might Be Reduced For Architecture-Aware Applications (CR 7043098)
SunVTS CD Panics on Systems with Greater than 1 TB of Memory (CR 7043192)
Panics Occur on Systems with Greater than 1 TB of Memory (CR 6979638)
Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 Panics During Install (CR 6992851)
SunVTS Loopback Tests Might Hang on Intel 10GbE Card (CR 6957932)
System Might Panic With "unowned mutex" Message (CR 6893274)
Hotplugging PCIe Express Modules in Slots 2.0 or 2.1 Might Not Work (CR 6954869)
Oracle Solaris MSI Interrupts Are Depleted (CR6669984 )
Multiple Corrected Error Messages After Hotplugging Quad GbE PCIe Gen2 Adapter (CR 7157354)
False MCE Errors Appear in /var/log/mcelog (CR 7104293)
Xen Hangs During Bootup On RHEL 5.6 and on Oracle Linux 5.6 (CR 7010124)
Messages Complain of Failure to Allocate I/O Resources (CR 6984329)
I/O Does Not Work On SLES11 SP1 with XEN (CR 6965290)
MSM Install Fails on RHEL 6 (CR 7017469)
Windows Operating System Issues
Windows Server 2008 R2 Does Not Correctly Identify CPUs (CR 6997566)
NIC Ports Fail with Problem Code 12 (CR 7019043)
Windows Server 2012 and Driver Support
VMware ESXi 5.x Supports Maximum 2 TB of Memory (15925029)
Systems Running ESX/ESXi 4.1 and ESXi 5 Support Limited Numbers of NIC Ports (CR 7167547)
ESX 4.1 Ignores 2 GB of Memory On Systems with 1 TB of Memory (CR 7037903)
Use the Locate Button to Prove Physical Presence (CR 6881237)
Failed DIMMs Listed Reported as Present (CR 7023549)
Uncorrectable Errors (UEs) Lost on System Reset or Power-Down (CR 7028423)
Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant
Disable x2APIC Before Booting Oracle Hardware Installation Assistant (CR 7112255)
The following operating systems are supported for this release of your server:
Oracle Solaris 11 11/11 (64–bit)
Oracle Solaris 10 8/11
Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 (64–bit) plus patch 144489–11 or later and with patch 144568–02 or later
Note - These patches are already included in the preinstalled Oracle Solaris OS.
Oracle Linux 5.6, 5.7 , 5.8, 6, 6.1, and 6.2 (64–bit)
Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel for Linux
Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2 for Linux
Oracle VM 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 3.0.2, 3.03, and 3.1.1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6, 5.7 , 5.8, 6, 6.1, and 6.2 (64–bit)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 SP1 and SP2 (64–bit)
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 (64–bit)
Windows Server 2012 (64–bit)
For additional information, see Windows Server 2012 and Driver Support.
VMware ESX/ESXi 4.1 U1, ESXi 4.1 U2, ESXi 5.0, and ESXi 5.0 U1
The following operating systems support 4 TB memory:
Oracle Solaris 11 11/11 (64–bit)
Oracle Solaris 10 8/11
Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 with patch 144501–19
Oracle Linux 5.8 and 6.2 (with Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2)
OVM 3.1.1
SLES 11 SP2
RHEL 6.2
Windows Server 2012 (with system software release 1.1.2 and later)
Note - For a listing of supported operating systems for this product, see: https://wikis.oracle.com/display/SystemsComm/Sun+Server+X2-8#tab:Operating-Systems