The SPARC T5-4 server supports single-wide and double-wide card carriers. The removal steps are the same for both carrier types. This topic includes illustrations only for the single-wide carrier.
Caution - To remove a PCIe card that is assigned to an I/O domain, first remove the device from the I/O domain. Then, add the device to the root domain before you physically remove the device from the system. These steps enable you to avoid a configuration that is unsupported by the Direct I/O or SR-IOV feature. For more information about making hardware changes to an I/O domain, refer to the Oracle VM for SPARC documentation. |
Caution - This procedure requires that you handle components that are sensitive to electrostatic discharge. This discharge can cause failure of server components. |
See Prevent ESD Damage.
See Determine Which PCIe Card Is Faulty to locate a faulty PCIe card.
For the location of the PCIe card carriers, see Rear Panel Components.
The Power OK LED should go off, indicating that the card is ready to be removed. Go to Step 7.
# hotplug list -l | grep PCIE
This command lists dynamically reconfigurable PCIe resources and shows their operational status. In this case, look for the status of the card you plan to remove.
For example:
/pci@300/pci@1/pci@0/pci@6 [PCIE1] EMPTY /pci@340/pci@1/pci@0/pci@6 [PCIE3] ENABLED /pci@380/pci@1/pci@0/pci@a [PCIE9] EMPTY /pci@3c0/pci@1/pci@0/pci@e [PCIE11] EMPTY /pci@400/pci@1/pci@0/pci@c [PCIE2] EMPTY /pci@440/pci@1/pci@0/pci@c [PCIE4] EMPTY /pci@480/pci@1/pci@0/pci@4 [PCIE10] EMPTY /pci@4c0/pci@1/pci@0/pci@8 [PCIE12] EMPTY /pci@500/pci@1/pci@0/pci@e [PCIE5] EMPTY /pci@540/pci@1/pci@0/pci@e [PCIE7] ENABLED /pci@580/pci@1/pci@0/pci@a [PCIE13] EMPTY /pci@5c0/pci@1/pci@0/pci@8 [PCIE15] EMPTY /pci@600/pci@1/pci@0/pci@8 [PCIE6] EMPTY /pci@640/pci@1/pci@0/pci@8 [PCIE8] EMPTY /pci@680/pci@1/pci@0/pci@4 [PCIE14] EMPTY /pci@6c0/pci@1/pci@0/pci@4 [PCIE16] EMPTY
For example:
# hotplug disable /pci@340/pci@1/pci@0/pci@6 PCIE3
For example:
# hotplug poweroff /pci@340/pci@1/pci@0/pci@6 PCIE3