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Updated: August 2019

Sun Server X3-2 (formerly Sun Fire X4170 M3) Product Notes

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Sun Server X3-2 Product Notes

Resolved Issues

BIOS Known Issues

Do not preserve BIOS configuration when downgrading from SW release 1.3 to 1.2 (17719173)

UEFI configuration settings might be lost when transitioning between UEFI and Legacy BIOS modes (15736328, formerly CR 7080526)

BIOS might hang when a key is entered in response to a BIOS prompt (15761342, formerly CR 7121782)

BIOS might not respond to a USB keyboard and/or mouse connected to the server (15735895, formerly CR 7079855)

Using OS tools to create, modify or delete UEFI Boot variables might cause the loss of a variable required for the OS to start (15784988, formerly CR 7160733)

Oracle ILOM BIOS Configuration Backup and Restore reports "Partial Restore" status (15790853, formerly CR 7167796)

Hardware Known Issues

Oracle ILOM SNMP v3 traps are not delivered after SNMP engine ID change (23634048)

Oracle Solaris 10 U11 installation fails in system configured with the Sun Dual Port 4x QDR IB Host Channel Adapter (17977420)

Error while updating disk firmware when using Oracle System Assistant (19940151)

Windows Device Manager takes 2 to 4 minutes to display Intel NIC card properties in BIOS Legacy mode (20259399)

Sun Storage 10 GbE FCoE PCIe converged network adapter card does not have Windows 2012 R2 driver (17848060)

PCIe slot 1 on the server service label and the server rear panel is mislabeled

Mouse pointer does not work in MegaRAID utility from the Oracle ILOM Remote Console (15584702, formerly CR 6875309)

SAS expander firmware must be updated prior to updating HBA firmware

System can appear to hang when booted in UEFI BIOS mode if the Sun Storage 6 Gb SAS PCIe RAID HBA has old firmware (15763252, formerly CR 7125220)

GRUB boot loader can only boot from the first eight hard drives in a system (15788976, formerly CR 7165568)

Windows Server 2008 installation to R1 or R10 RAID volume fails with Sun Storage 6 Gb SAS PCIe Internal HBA and UEFI mode selected in BIOS (15789031, formerly CR 7165622)

Emulex HBA: UEFI "Add Boot Device" hangs when invoked if "Scan Fibre Devices" is not run first (15785186, formerly CR 7160984)

MegaRAID Storage Manager not able to assign hot spares to 3-TB drives using EFI partitioning with the Sun Storage 6 Gb SAS PCIe HBA (15787798, formerly CR 7164218)

Some Oracle ILOM web interface System Information screens show incorrect number of Ethernet ports and PCIe ports (15803551, 15803553, formerly CR 7183782, 7183789)

Storage drives of servers with both Internal and External Sun Storage 6 Gb SAS PCIe HBA cards are not detected by BIOS at boot time (15803117, formerly CR 7183271)

Oracle ILOM CLI commands and web interface System Information screen shows incorrect number of DIMM sockets (15803564, formerly CR 7183799)

Oracle System Assistant Known Issues

Virtual Ethernet device is reported as "Not Installed" in Windows Server 2008 (15765750, formerly CR 7129124)

Oracle System Assistant cannot be used to update a Sun Storage 6 Gb SAS PCIe HBA from Legacy BIOS to UEFI BIOS firmware (15762391, formerly CR 7123372)

'Path too Long' errors might occur when unzipping Windows downloads (15758199, formerly CR 7116803)

User with only admin (a) privilege cannot update Oracle ILOM firmware from Oracle System Assistant (15783347, formerly CR 7158820)

When using Oracle System Assistant to perform a SLES 11 OS-assisted install, password and network prompts might appear (15783011, formerly CR 7158471)

Oracle Solaris Operating System Known Issues

Oracle Solaris 10 U11 installation fails in a system configured with the Sun Dual Port 4x QDR IB Host Channel Adapter (17977420)

Oracle ILOM Remote Console appears to hang with the Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 (16353003)

Accepting default partitioning of 3 TB HDD when using Oracle Solaris 11 11/11 text installer results in failed installation (15762166, formerly CR 7123018)

During system boot, a warning message might appear on the console (15777292, formerly CR 7151581)

Oracle Solaris 11 11/11 Preinstall might encounter a five-minute delay during first boot

Linux Operating Systems and Virtual Machine Known Issues

Oracle Linux 6.6 and 7 with Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 3 (UEK3) may panic at boot time (20157307)

Oracle Linux 7 power cycle causes system to hang when booting in legacy mode (20048063)

System will not boot Oracle Linux 7 with Sun Storage 10GbE FCoE PCIe Converged Network Adapter in UEFI mode (20092072)

Unable to obtain DHCP lease at boot time with RHEL Linux operating systems (16014346)

SLES 11 SP1 requires an upgraded ixgbe driver to support the onboard network interface controller

"Sense Key: Recovered Error" message appears on the console and in /var/log/ messages in certain versions of Linux (15771992, 15783197, formerly CR 7144197, 7158666)

Network boot servers based on Oracle Linux 6.1 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 or 6.2 cause UEFI Linux clients to panic when booting over the network (15744732, formerly CR 7096052)

Oracle VM and some Linux operating system installs can fail on some disk partitions (15770848, formerly CR 7142600)

When the operating system boots and loads the mpt2sas driver, errors might appear in dmesg (15824191, formerly CR 7205850)

Windows Known Issue

Sun Storage 10 GbE FCoE PCIe adapter card does not have Windows 2012 R2 driver (17848060)

VMware ESXi Known Issues

VMware ESXi 5.0 and 5.0 Update 1 requires an updated ixgbe driver to support the onboard network interface controller (NIC)

VMware ESXi 5.x cannot be installed on system with the Sun Storage 6 Gb SAS PCIe HBA (Internal) and non-RAID volumes (16373075)

Documentation Known Issues

Broken Links in Sun Server X3-2 Documentation Library

Documentation Updates

Getting Server Firmware and Software

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SAS expander firmware must be updated prior to updating HBA firmware

On systems with a Sun Storage 6 Gb SAS PCIe HBA card, it is critical that the SAS expander firmware is updated to version 0901 prior to updating the HBA firmware to version 11.00.00.00. If the HBA firmware is updated before the SAS expander, the system will not boot.

Note - See also CR 7095163 in these product notes for important related information.

Affected hardware and software:

Sun Storage 6 Gb SAS PCIe HBA Internal (SG-SAS6-INT-Z and SGX-SAS6-INT-Z)
Releases 1.0 and later

Workaround:

Use Oracle System Assistant to update the system firmware. Oracle System Assistant updates components automatically and will always update the SAS expander before updating the HBA. However, if you elect to update components one at a time (for example, by unchecking components in the Oracle System Assistant preview list for the Update Firmware task), it is critical to not update the HBA prior to the SAS expander.

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