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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)

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

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

Preinstalled Software

The preinstalled Oracle Solaris OS is installed on a ZFS file system, as described in Preinstalled Software.

Table 1-1 Preinstalled Software

Software
Location
Function
Oracle Solaris 11 OS or Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 OS
Root disk Slice 0
Operating system
Oracle VM Server for SPARC

  • 2.2 with Oracle Solaris 11

  • 2.0 with Oracle Solaris 10
/opt/SUNWldm
Manages logical domains
Electronic Prognostics

  • 1.2 with Oracle Solaris 11

  • 1.1 with Oracle Solaris 10
/opt/ep
Provides early warning of the potential for specific FRU faults
System firmware 8.2.0.f or later
Service processor

Host processor
Oracle ILOM operations

All other firmware operations

Note - Refer to the Customer Information Sheet shipped with your server to identify which version of Oracle Solaris OS is preinstalled.

Note - In addition to reading the product notes for your server, always review the latest version of the Oracle Solaris OS release notes when installing or using the server. The release notes provide important installation, runtime, and update information that you should consider when installing or running the Oracle Solaris OS. The release notes also list the known OS problems and provide workarounds when available.

Find the release notes for your version of the OS on the following web site: http://docs.oracle.com

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