Important Operating Notes - Sun Server X4-2 Product Notes

When using the InfiniBand PCIe card with Oracle UEK2, if the BIOS options VT-d and SR-IOV are enabled and the kernel boot argument intel_iommu is set to on, low IPoIB throughput results

Oracle Server Hardware Management Agent does not start successfully on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.4

32-GB LRDIMMs are not available for customer order when the server is initially released

StorageTek 8 Gb FC PCIe HBA Dual Port Emulex HBA card is not supported with the Oracle Solaris 11.1 operating systems

GRUB boot loader can only boot from the first eight hard drives in a system

Open Issues

Hardware Open Issues

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

MegaRAID mouse pointer does not work on Oracle ILOM Remote Console

UEFI configuration settings might be lost when transitioning between UEFI BIOS and Legacy BIOS

BIOS might not respond to a USB keyboard and/or mouse that is connected directly to the server

Using any operating system tools or utilities to manage (create, modify, or delete) UEFI Boot variables might result in the loss of a boot variable needed to start the operating system

Oracle ILOM BIOS Configuration Backup and Restore should not report “Partial Restore” status

Emulex HBA: UEFI “Add Boot Device” hangs when invoked if “Scan Fibre Devices” is not run first

On single-processor systems, some Oracle ILOM web interface System Information screens show an incorrect number of Ethernet ports and PCIe ports available for use

On single-processor systems, some Oracle ILOM CLI commands and web interface System Information screens show an incorrect number of supported DIMM sockets

On servers configured with Internal and External Sun Storage 6 Gb SAS PCIe HBA cards, the storage drives are not detected by BIOS at boot time

Unable to obtain DHCP lease at boot time with Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating systems

After installing an operating system using PXE or a Linux ISO image, the system might fail to assign an IP address to the network port that was used to preform the install

When running an Emulex HBA in UEFI BIOS Boot Mode, the “Add Boot Device” command causes the system to hang

Rebooting the service processor (SP) while the server's host is rebooting might cause the BIOS hang

Oracle System Assistant Open Issues

Virtual Ethernet device is reported as “Not Installed” in Microsoft Windows Server

Oracle System Assistant does not allow a user with only the admin role (a) privilege to update the Oracle ILOM service processor firmware

Oracle System Assistant produces an error when you attempt to update multiple 1.2 TB HDDs or 4 TB HDDs

Oracle Hardware Management Agent for Windows does not start automatically after you have installed it using Oracle System Assistant

Oracle Hardware Management Agent (hwmgmtd) for SLES 11 SP3, Oracle VM 3.3.1, or Oracle Linux 6.x does not start automatically after you have installed it using Oracle System Assistant

Oracle Solaris Operating System Open Issues

During system boot, a warning message might appear on the console

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

Preinstalled Oracle Solaris 11.1 operating system must be upgraded with SRU 11 before the FMA 2 HA feature can be used on a server that has a 2.7-GHz, 12-core, 130W processor installed

Oracle Solaris 11 operating system does not power off

Linux Operating Systems and Virtual Machine Open Issues

Network port name and onboard NIC port name are not accurate after system reboots

VMware ESXi 5.0 Update 2 virtual machine software does not support network connections when using the onboard network interface controller (NIC) unless an ixgbe driver or a compatible network interface card is installed

When the operating system boots and loads the mpt2sas driver, errors might appear in dmesg

Operating system does not boot if the Sun Storage Dual 16 Gb Fibre Channel PCIe Universal HBA FCoE card is installed and its option ROM is enabled in UEFI BIOS mode

If you use the preinstalled Oracle VM 3.2 software on a server that has 26 storage drives, the Oracle VM software might panic and display error messages

Attempts to install Oracle Linux 6.3 or 6.4 to an iSCSI target HDD fail

On x86 servers running Oracle Linux 6.4 with Intel Xeon E5-2600 V2 series processors installed, the processors never enter some C-states

After an Oracle Linux 5.9 or 6.4 OS boots when a power limit is set, the processor remains at low speed after commands are issued to dismiss the power limit

After enabling Option ROM for the Sun Storage Dual 16 Gb Fibre Channel PCIe Universal HBA QLogic card in UEFI BIOS Boot Mode, the SLES 11 ISO image fails to boot

Kernel panic occurs with BurninTest 3.1 on a RHEL 6 or 7 OS or Oracle Linux 6 or 7 OS that is running the Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release for Linux

Cannot install VMware ESXi 5.x on system configured with Sun Storage 6 Gb SAS PCIe HBA, Internal when non-RAID volumes exist

Low IPoverIB throughput when using the Sun Dual Port QDR InfiniBand Host Channel Adapter for PCIExpress Gen 3 HBA with SLES 11 SP3

Oracle Linux 7.0 with UEK Release 3 does not boot if the Sun Storage 10 Gb FCoE HBA card is installed and its option ROM is enabled in UEFI BIOS mode

Oracle Linux 7.0 installation reports an unknown error message if the installation destination disk is partitioned more than once during the operating system installation

Linux operating systems might not install when using Oracle System Assistant

"dmarxd_poisoned_data_from_dp_stat" message appears in Oracle ILOM Fault Manager after installing RHEL 7.0 or Oracle Linux 7.0

Windows Operating System Open Issues

"Path too Long" errors might occur when unzipping Windows downloads

WHEA fatal errors are received when installing Windows Server 2012

When Windows 2012 R2 is installed using Oracle System Assistant, the fwupdate command does not list QLogic HBA cards

Documentation Open Issues

Broken Links in Sun Server X4-2 Documentation Library

Physical Media Requests Are No Longer Supported

Outdated URL Appears in X4-2 Documentation Set

Updates to the

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Translated Documents Use Abbreviated Titles

Sun Server X4-2 Product Accessibility

Sun Server X4-2 Hardware Accessibility

Oracle ILOM Accessibility

Oracle Hardware Management Pack Accessibility

BIOS Accessibility

Documentation Accessibility