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SPARC T3-4 Server
Product Notes
August 2012
Review important late-breaking information about the server.
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1. Late-Breaking Information
Preinstalled Software
Supported Versions of Oracle Solaris OS, Firmware, and Software
OS Package and Patch Updates
Determining Oracle Solaris 11 OS Package Update Version
Determining Oracle Solaris 10 Patch Revision
Minimum Required Patchset for Oracle Solaris 10 08/11 OS
Minimum Required Patchset for Oracle Solaris 10 09/10 OS
Minimum Required Patchsets and SPARC Bundle for Oracle Solaris 10 10/09 OS
ALOM CMT Compatibility Shell Not Supported
Power Supply Inrush/Input Surge Current Information
Custom
nvalias
Settings Will Not Change During a System Reconfiguration
2. Known Product Issues
Hardware Issues
Direct I/O Support
Sun Type 6 Keyboards Are Not Supported by SPARC T3 Series Servers
Hardware RAID 1E Not Supported
I/O Performance Might Degrade When Using More Than Two Ports Across Multiple Sun Dual 10 GbE SFP+ PCIe Cards (CR 6943558)
Enable Flow Control (With a System Reboot)
Enable Flow Control (Without a System Reboot)
PARALLEL_BOOT/HOST_LAST_POWER_STATE=enabled
Failed, Unexpected Power State (Off) After AC Cycle (CR 6994047)
Server Panics When Booting From a USB Thumbdrive Attached to the Front USB Ports (CR 6983185)
Copper QSFP Cables Not Supported (CR 6941888)
Performance Limitations Occur When Performing a Hot-Plug Installation of a x8 Card Into a Slot Previously Occupied With a x4 Card (CR 6987359)
Error Messages Not Retained After UE and CE Memory Failures (CR 6990058)
Watchdog Timeouts Might Occur Under Very Heavy Load (CR 6994535)
Unrecoverable USB Hardware Errors Occur In Some Circumstances (CR 6995634)
Replace Faulty DIMMs With Uncorrectable Errors (UEs) As Soon As Possible (CR 6996144)
Service Processor Does Not Always Initialize When AC Power Is Removed for Less Than 120 Seconds (CR 6997182)
Intermittent Power Supply Faults Occur During Power On (CR 7066165)
Voltage Fault Prevents Host Power-On (CR 7003014)
Oracle Solaris OS Issues
Static/Dynamic Input/Output Not Currently Supported
Oracle Solaris OS Has Changed How It Specifies Logical Device Names
Oracle Solaris Jumpstart Examples
Interactive Installation Example
The
cfgadm -al
Command Takes a Long Time to Print Output (CR 6937169)
False
nxge
Warning Messages (CR 6938085)
Spurious Interrupt Message in System Console (CR 6963563)
The
prtpicl
Command Does Not Display Drive Information (CR 6963594)
Missing Interrupt Causes USB Hub Hotplug Thread to Hang, Resulting In Process Hangs (CR 6968801)
Long Local Console Delays During Login or Logout of Oracle Solaris (CR 6971884)
Spurious Error Message During Initial Oracle Solaris OS Installation (CR 6971896)
SDIO Policy Violations Might Cause the Primary Domain To Panic During Boot (CR 6983964)
On-Board Ethernet Devices Fail to Connect After a Faulty CPU Reconfigures Back to the Host (CR 6984323)
hostconfig
Command Does Not Update CPU Serial Number in the Physical Resource Inventory Machine Descriptor (PRI MD) (CR 6989166)
Oracle Enterprise Manager Process Hangs and Becomes Unkillable (CR 6994300)
Gigabit Ethernet (
nxge
) Driver Not Loading on Systems With Oracle Solaris 10 10/09 OS and Solaris 10 9/10 Patch Bundle (CR 6995458)
Diagnosis Engine (
eft
) is Disabled on Memory Unrecoverable Errors Reportedly Due To Exceeding Module Memory Limit (CR 7000649)
Firmware Issues
Intermittent
WARNING: ios#, peu# Link Width x8 Link Speed GEN1
Messages (CR 6958263)
sas2flash
Utility Fails When Six or More Sun Storage 6 Gb SAS RAID PCIe HBAs, External, Are Installed (CR 6983246)
Adding a PCIe End-Point Device to a Guest Domain Might Result in a Hypervisor Abort and Shutdown (CR 6999227)
Cold Reset Adds One Day to System Time (CR 7127740)
Performing
stop /SYS
with
HOST_COOLDOWN
Policy Enabled Generates a Critical Voltage Fault