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Change History

Hardware Installation and Product Notes

Hardware Installation

Installation Overview

Sun Fire X4640 Server Front and Back Panel Features and Components

Installing the Server Hardware

Removing the Server From the Rack

Cabling and Power

Getting Service for Your Server

Sun Fire X4640 Server Specifications

Managing Your Server

Communicating With the ILOM and the System Console

Setting Up Your Operating System

Product Notes

Overview of the Sun Fire X4640 Server Product Notes

Supported Software and Firmware

System Software Release Summary

Tools and Drivers CD

Supported Operating Systems

Solaris 10 Operating System

Sun Java Enterprise System

Sun xVM Ops Center

MegaRAID Storage Manager (MSM)

Bootable Diagnostics CD-ROM

Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM)

LSI Firmware Phase

Hardware Issues

Limited Support for PCI Express Cards (6879524)

Mixing DIMMs Impacts Memory Performance

Sync Flood Error Before POST (6772148)

Workaround

1 GB and 2 GB DIMMs are Not Supported

Spontaneous Reboot With "OEM 0#x12 SEL" Messages and No Memory Errors (6652566)

Remedial Steps

System Does Not Boot With 6 QGE Cards (6555627)

USB Ports Become Disabled (6424279)

Workaround

Mouse and Keyboard Hang During Stress Test (6499312)

Workaround

Errors for SLES 11 Systems and the Sun QDR InfiniBand PCIe Low Profile Host Channel Adapter Card (CR 6948303)

(Fixed in SW 1.1) System Hangs When a DIMM UE Occurs on CPU0 (6891319)

Workaround

(Fixed in SW 1.1) DIMM Correctable Error Causes System Hang During POST (6902398)

Workaround

(Fixed in SW 1.2) Use USB Full Speed to Boot System With USB External Devices (6880116)

Workaround

Solaris Operating System Issues

Benign picld Error Messages Might Appear on a Solaris OS System (6789972)

Panic Might Occur During SunVTS ramtest or High Load Situation on a Solaris OS System (6896920)

Link Status Might Be Incorrect on a Solaris OS System (6774715)

Workaround

Configuring Solaris to Support 10 5/09 48 Cores (6830736)

Workaround

Error Message Is Displayed With Solaris 10 5/09 and Certain Adapter Cards (6838860)

Error Messages Are Displayed With Solaris 10 5/09 and Sun Dual 10GbE XFP 2 SR PCI Express Card (6804557)

Cannot Install Solaris OS Under VMware With More Than Two Virtual NICs (6548384)

Workaround

Linux Operating System Issues

SLES 11 Systems Unable to Start openibd and opensmd and Unable to Load HCA Driver (6812736)

Workaround

SLES 11 Systems and the Sun QDR InfiniBand PCIe Low Profile Host Channel Adapter Card (6948303)

Workarounds

RHEL 5 Systems Likely to Enumerate PCIe Ethernet Ports First (6758623)

Virtual Floppy and DVD Drives Not Detected (6570949)

Workaround

Front Panel USB Ports Disabled When Running SLES 10 64-bit (6516732)

Workarounds

Windows Operating System Issues

On-Board Network Ports Cannot Be Used to Initiate Teaming in Windows Server 2008 R2 (6868558)

Workaround

VMware ESX and VMware ESXi Issues

lspci Command Shows Unknown Devices on VMware ESX 4.0

Network Interface Enumeration Changes After HBA Installed (6541032)

Benign Error Messages (6486386)

Incorrect CPU Family Reported in ESX/ESXi 4.0 (6843753)

Sun Installation Assistant Issues

Logs for Red Hat OS Installation Using SIA Are Not Available (6812783)

SIA Does Not Support Unattended Installation for RHEL 4.8 and RHEL 5. 3 Drivers (6886086)

Workaround

MegaRAID Storage Manager (MSM) Issues

Loading Saved Configuration File Hangs MSM Under Windows OS (6713250)

Workaround

MSM Might Not Update Status Log When Disk Is Removed

Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) Issues

Service Processor Does Not Log Event or Provide Visual Alert After Hard Disk Is Removed

Recovery for Accidentally Flashing the Wrong Platform Firmware on the Sun Fire X4640 Server

Recovery Steps

Unimplemented Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Traps (6300437)

SNMP Agent Does Not Handle All Sets (6255301)

Workaround

(Fixed in SW 1.1) FRU List Is Not Updated When Power Supply Is Hot-Swapped (6894442)

Workaround

BIOS Issues

Cannot Boot From Internal Disk With Sun Multithreaded 10 GbE Card in Slot 2, 3, or 4 (6711405, 6764001)

Workaround

Option ROM Space for PXE Booting Can Be Exhausted Before All Devices Can Be Scanned (6453144, 6403173, 6272514, 6393809, 6439856, 6462303)

Workaround Option 1

Workaround Option 2

Server Does Not Boot With Sun Multithreaded 10G Networking Card (6706575)

Workaround

Documentation Issues

Installation Guide and Getting Started Guide Contain Incorrect SIA Information

Workaround

Incorrect Documentation Link on Sun Fire X4640 Server System Overview Label

Workaround

ILOM Supplement Missing How to Prove Physical Presence (6881237)

Workaround

Operating System Installation

Sun Installation Assistant

Introduction to Sun Installation Assistant

Getting Started With Sun Installation Assistant

Starting SIA and Preparing for Deployment or Recovery Tasks

Configuring RAID

Installing Windows With SIA

Installing Linux With SIA

Using SIA to Upgrade System Firmware

Using SIA to Recover a Service Processor

Performing an SIA PXE-Based Attended Installation

Performing an SIA PXE-Based Unattended Installation

Observing an SIA PXE-Based Unattended Installation

Troubleshooting SIA

Creating a Bootable SIA USB Flash Drive

Identifying a Linux Boot Device on a Sun Fire X4500 Server

Installing Service Tags

Solaris Operating System

Introduction to Solaris OS and OpenSolaris Installation

Installing the Solaris 10 Operating System

Installing the OpenSolaris Operating System

Booting From OS Distribution Media

Identifying Logical and Physical Network Interface Names for Solaris OS Installation

Preliminary Tasks Before Installing An OS

Linux

Introduction to Linux Installation

Sun Installation Assistant (SIA)

Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Installing and Updating SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

Configuring a Linux Server to Support PXE Installation

Booting From OS Distribution Media

Preliminary Tasks Before Installing An OS

Identifying Logical and Physical Network Interface Names for Linux OS Configuration

Windows

Introduction to Windows Installation

Sun Installation Assistant (SIA)

Getting Started With Windows Server 2008 Installation

Downloading Server Software

Selecting a Media Delivery Method

Configuring a Remote Console

Installing Windows Server 2008

Updating Critical Drivers and Installing Supplemental Software

Incorporating Sun Fire Drivers Into a WIM Image

Identifying Network Interfaces in Windows

ESX

Introduction to ESX Installation

Installing VMware ESX 4

Installing VMware ESXi 4.0 Installable

Booting From OS Distribution Media

Preliminary Tasks Before Installing An OS

Administration, Diagnostics, and Service

Administration Using ILOM

Overview of the ILOM Supplement

Introduction to ILOM Software

Communicating With the ILOM and the System Console

Updating Firmware

Using ILOM to Monitor the Host

Diagnostics

Overview of the Diagnostics Guide

Introduction to System Diagnostics

Troubleshooting the Server

Troubleshooting DIMM Problems

Using the ILOM to Monitor the Host

Using SunVTS Diagnostics Software

Creating a Data Collector Snapshot

Resetting the SP

Service

Sun Fire X4640 Server Service Manual Overview

Controlling Power and Performing Hardware Reset

Removing and Installing Components

Configuring the System Using the BIOS Setup Utilities

Sun Fire X4640 Server References and Specifications

Index

(Fixed in SW 1.1) FRU List Is Not Updated When Power Supply Is Hot-Swapped (6894442)

If a PSI is hot swapped, the FRU list information will not be automatically updated until old FRU files are removed and the service processor is rebooted.

Workaround

  1. Enable the service processor (SP) Sun Service account, if directed by Sun Service staff.

    See the Sun Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) 3.0 Getting Started Guide, 820-5523.

  2. Login to the SP as sunservice.
  3. Remove .fru2 files by using the following command: rm -rf /conf/ps*.fru2.
  4. Reboot the SP.