What's In This Firmware Release

After Re-Installing the Oracle Virtual Machine (OVM) Manager, International Standards Organizations (ISO) Files Are Listed by Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) Rather Than by Friendly Name

After Un-Mapping a Volume from an Oracle Virtual Machine (OVM) Server, the Volume Continues to Appear in the Storage Database on the Server

In the Oracle Virtual Machine (OVM) Manager User Interface, Only One Drive at a Time Can Be Selected for Deletion

Kernel Panics During Controller Firmware (CFW) Download

BCM Driver Fails to Load

Kernel Panics During Controller Firmware Download

Network Interface on Device eth0 Fails to Come Online When Booting a Host

When Over 128 Volumes are Mapped to a Host, Paths to Only the First 128 Volumes are Restored after the Controller is Reset

Unable to Add More Than 117 Volumes to the Oracle Virtual Machine (OVM) Manager Database

Write-Back Cache is Disabled after Controllers Reboot with Multiple Failed Volumes in a Storage Array

During Multiple Node Failover/Failback Events, Input/Output (I/O) Operations Time Out Because a Resource is Not Available to a Cluster

After an NVSRAM Download, a Controller Reboots a Second Time when the NVSRAM is Activated

When a Controller is Not Set Offline Before Being Replaced, an Exception Occurs when the Replacement Controller is Brought Online

Input/Output (I/O) Errors Occur when a Cable is Disconnected between a Host and a Controller, and the Alternate Controller is Unavailable

Backup Failure or I/O Errors with Snapshot Creation or Mounting Failure During Backup of Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV)

Data is Misread when a Physical Drive Has an Unreadable Sector

Solaris 10 Guest in Fault Tolerant Mode Is Unable to Relocate Secondary Virtual Machine (VM) Upon Host Failure

Documentation Issues

Total Cache Size Specification for Sun Storage 6780 Array

Inaccurate Cabling Diagrams in Hardware Installation Guide

Product Documentation

Documentation, Support, and Training

Array controller firmware version 07.84.44.10 provides Sun Storage Common Array Manager enhancements and bug fixes as described in the Sun Storage Common Array Manager Software Release Notes.

Platform and Firmware Patch IDs

Firmware version 07.84.44.10 requires CAM 6.9.0_20 delivered as the firmware and platform patches listed in Platform and Firmware Patch IDs .

For more information, see the knowledge article Sun Storage 6580/6780 Firmware Matrix (Doc ID 1022298.1) available at My Oracle Support (MOS) https://support.oracle.com.

Table 1-1 Platform and Firmware Patch IDs

Platform patch	Operating System	Firmware patch	Operating System
147416-xx	Solaris SPARC	147660-xx	Solaris
147417-xx	Windows	147661-xx	Windows
147418-xx	Linux	147662-xx	Linux
147419-xx	Solaris X86

Downloading Patches and Updates

Download the latest platform and firmware patch (see Platform and Firmware Patch IDs ) from My Oracle Support (MOS) https://support.oracle.com.

For detailed patch download steps, see the Knowledge article 1296274.1 available on MOS.

How to Download Common Array Manager (CAM) Software and Patches [ID 1296274.1]

Each array should be managed by one CAM management host only. Installing the management software on more than one host to manage the same array can cause discrepancies in the information reported by CAM.

Note - This release information changes periodically. For updated information, contact your customer service or sales representative.

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	Sun Storage 6580 and 6780 Arrays Hardware Release Notes, Release 6.9.x Update

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