Oracle Solaris Known Issues - Sun Fire X4470 Server Product Notes

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Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 System Panics and Reboots After Three Hours of Network Stress

Issue:

Solaris 10 8/11 might panic and then reboot during an extended time of network stress.

Affected Operating System:

Oracle Solaris 10 8/11

Workaround:

Install Patch 147441-08 (or higher version), which is bundled into the Tools and Drivers firmware of Software Release 1.4 and later releases. Run the install shell script to install the related patch.

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System Panics at Beginning of Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 Installation Onto a Sun Fire X4470 Server Configured for RAID 10 and With a Sun Storage 6Gb SAS PCIe Internal HBA Card Installed

Issue:

A system panic might occur during the installation of Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 onto a Sun Fire X4470 configured for RAID 10, when the hard disk drives are connected to an internal Sun Storage 6Gb SAS PCIe HBA, Internal card. The panic is caused by a known issue with the HBA mptsas driver.

Affected Hardware and Operating System:

Sun Storage 6Gb SAS PCIe, Internal HBA (SGX-SAS6-INT-Z or SG-SAS6-INT-Z)
Oracle Solaris 10 8/11

Workaround:

Apply a mptsas driver Install Time Update (ITU) patch during the operating system installation. The steps to resolve this panic issue are detailed in the ReadMe file for the ITU patch, which can be found in the Oracle Solaris folder in the Tools and Drivers firmware image of Software Release 1.4 and later releases.

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Oracle Solaris 11 11/11 Crash Dumps During Power-Off or Reboot of Sun Fire X4470 Server

Issue:

Oracle Solaris 11 11/11 panics during power-off or reboot of the system when a Sun Storage 10 GbE FCoE PCIe SR Converged Network Adapter or Sun Storage 10 GbE FCoE PCIe Twin-Ax Converged Network Adapter is installed.

Affected Hardware and Operating System:

Sun Storage 10 GbE FCoE PCIe SR Converged Network Adapter (SG-XPCIEFCOE2-Q-SR or SGPCIEFOCE2-Q-SR)
Sun Storage 10 GbE FCoE PCIe Twin-Ax Converged Network Adapter (SG-XPCIEFCOE2-Q-TA or SG-PCIEFCOE2-Q-TA)
Oracle Solaris 11 11/11

Workaround:

There is no workaround for this issue.

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Intel SpeedStep Function Does Not Work With Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 That Is Running in a System Configured With Two Processors

Issue:

The Intel SpeedStep functionality does not work on systems running Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 when the server is configured with two processors (CPUs).

Affected Operating Systems:

Oracle Solaris 10 9/10
Oracle Solaris 11 Express

Workaround:

This issue can be fixed by editing the configuration file /etc/power.conf to change cpupm enable to cpupm enable poll-mode.

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Oracle Solaris Might Run Out of MSI-X Vectors

Issue:

Oracle Solaris limits the number of MSI-X vectors to 32 per IPL. Network interface cards (NICs) and host bus adapters (HBAs) are all assigned to IPL 6. If there are a large number of adapters in the Sun Fire X4470 Server that use MSI-X for interrupts, you might run out of MSI-X vectors. If this occurs, the system sends a message similar to the following:

Apr 15 23:22:54 ban21uut058spare2 pcplusmp: [ID 475383 kern.warning] WARNING: No interrupt vector: pciex8086,10fb instance 1

Apr 15 23:22:54 ban21uut058spare2 pcplusmp: [ID 383221 kern.warning] WARNING: Sharing vectors: pciex8086,10fb instance 11 and pciex8086,10fb instance 1

Affected Operating Systems:

Oracle Solaris 10 8/11
Oracle Solaris 10 9/10

Workaround:

Download Oracle Solaris patch 146025-01.

For Solaris patches, go to:

https://support.oracle.com
Edit the /etc/system file to add the following line:

set pcplusmp:apic_adjipl_option=2
Reboot the system.

If you have difficulty installing Oracle Solaris because of this issue before you apply the workaround above, you can free up MSIs by excluding the driver for the card that is most numerous in the system.

For example, the following procedure excludes the 10 Gigabit Ethernet card driver:

At the GRUB prompt, enter e to edit.
Scroll down to

kernel$ /platform/i86pc/multiboot -B $ZFS-BOOTFS
Enter e again, and append:

ixgbe-disable=true

The resulting line should be similar to the following:

kernel$ /platform/i86pc/multiboot -B $ZFS-BOOTFS,ixgbe-disable=true

Press Enter.
Enter b to boot the system.

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Fault Management Architecture Support Requires Patch

Issue::

Oracle Solaris Fault Management Architecture (FMA) support for the Sun Fire X4470 Server requires patch 142901-09 or a later patch.

Affected Operating System:

Oracle Solaris 10 9/10

Note - Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 includes patch 142901-09. If you are using Oracle Solaris 10 8/11, you do not need to complete this workaround.

Workaround:

Download Oracle Solaris patch 142901-09.

For Oracle Solaris patches, go to:

https://support.oracle.com
Follow the patch installation instructions.
Before rebooting, run the following commands:

rem_drv intel_nhmex

add_drv -i '"pci8086,3438"' intel_nhmex
Reboot the server.