Supported Versions of Oracle Solaris OS, Firmware, and Software
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
Rules for I/O Slot Use by Certain Cards
Up to Eight SSDs Can Now Be Installed In Any SPARC T3-1 Server
Disk Zoning Rules for Backplanes With Sixteen-Disk Capacity
Minimum System Firmware for Valid devalias in Upper Disk Locations
Oracle Hardware Management Pack 2.1.1 and 2.2 Support SPARC Platforms
Disk Zone Management Using the zoningcli Command
ALOM CMT Compatibility Shell Not Supported
SAS Command Might Fail to Complete When Certain SAS Devices Are Put Under Heavy Load (CR 7088469)
Sun Type 6 Keyboards Are Not Supported By SPARC T3 Series Servers
Caution Needed When Removing a SATA Data Cable From a Backplane Connector
Caution Needed When Handling the Connector Board
Server Panics When Booting From a USB Thumbdrive Attached to the Front USB Ports (CR 6983185)
Cannot Boot Oracle Solaris 10 10/09 OS (U8) From the Internal DVD
When Two Or More NIU Devices Are Plumbed, Memory DR Remove Operations May Hang (6983286)
fault.memory.memlink-uc Fault Did Not Cause Panic as Stated by System Message (6940599)
Memory Allocation Issues With Emulex 8Gb HBAs In a Magma IO Expansion Box (6982072)
Spurious Error Message During Initial Oracle Solaris OS Installation (CR 6971896)
Spurious Interrupt Message in System Console (CR 6963563)
False nxge Warning Messages (CR 6938085)
Benign Error Message: mptsas request inquiry page 0x89 for SATA target :a failed (6986482)
Cold Reset Adds One Day to System Time (CR 7127740)
envtest May Issue Invalid Temperature Reports For Some Components (6975427)
System is Powered Off When Running reset /HOST/domain/control With Active Guest Domains (6987371)
Incorrect Handling of Out-of-Order Ctrl TDs Can Result in Applications Hanging (CR 7024581)
Missing Interrupt Causes USB Hub Hotplug Thread to Hang, Resulting In Process Hangs (6968801)
spconfig Names >36 Characters Give Communication eErrors for ldm add/rm-config Command (6987310)
Service Processor Locks Up With No Access (6985738)
SDIO: ereports Related to Sun Dual 10GbE SFP+ PCIe Cards On Reboots of the Primary Domain (6986960)
ereport.chassis.sp.unavailable Not Generated For a Degraded Service Processor (CR 6978171)
Part Number Provided to Oracle Solaris FMA Is Incorrect (6978447)
OpenBoot Command set-security-key Produces the False Warning: Unable to store security key (6986849)
Note - You should install the latest patches or package updates available for the version of the Oracle Solaris OS installed on your system.
Updates to Oracle Solaris 11 are provisioned using package updates called Support Repository Updates (SRUs) instead of patches. SRUs are part of a new OS provisioning scheme called the Image Packaging System (IPS).
To determine the package version of the Oracle Solaris 11 OS installed on your system, run the pkg info kernel command and then interpret the FMRI value displayed in the output. This is an example:
# pkg info kernel Name: system/kernel Summary: Core Kernel Description: Core operating system kernel, device drivers and other modules. Category: System/Core State: Installed Publisher: solaris Version: 0.5.11 Build Release: 5.11 Branch: 0.175.0.2.0.2.1 Packaging Date: Wed Oct 19 07:57:11 2011 Size: 17.99 MB FMRI: pkg://solaris/system/kernel@0.5.11,5.11-0.175.0.2.0.2.1: 20111128T20503
Then evaluate the following three fields in the FMRI value:
175 -- The value 175 indicates that the system has Oracle Solaris 11 OS installed. This value is a constant for Oracle Solaris 11.
0 -- The first field to the right of “175” indicates the update release. In this example, there have been no updates to the initial release.
2 -- The next field contains the SRU value. In this example, the second patch bundle (called SRU2) has been installed on Oracle Solaris 11, update 0.
You can ignore the other fields in the FMRI package description.
When you know which version of the OS is installed, you can access a list of all the packages contained in that release from the following web page:
http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release/en/index.shtml
To list the packages contained in a particular Oracle Solaris 11 release, select that release in the Release and Branch pull-down menu and press the Browse button. Or you can search for individual packages in the Search for: window.
If your system is currently running Oracle Solaris 10, you can find its patch level with the commands showrev(1M) and uname(1). This is shown in the following example:
# showrev Hostname: ********* Host id: ********* Release: 5.10 Kernel architecture: sun4v Application architecture: sparc Hardware provider: Sun_Microsystems Domain: Ecd.East.Sun.COM Kernel version SunOS 5.10 Generic_142909-17 # uname -a SunOS ********* Generic_142909-17 sun4v sparc sun4v # showrev -p | tail -3 Patch: 143525-01 Obsoletes: Requires: 118833-36, 127127-11 Incompatibles: Packages:SUNWcsu Patch: 143125-01 Obsoletes: 138079-01 138089-01 Requires: 120011-14 Incompatibles: Packages: SUNWcsu Patch: 121557-01 Obsoletes: Requires: Incompatibles: Packages: SUNWpiclu #
No additional patches are required before using the server with the Oracle Solaris 10 08/11 OS. However, you should download and install “Recommended OS Patchset Solaris 10 SPARC”. This patchset contains Oracle Solaris 10 OS patches that address current Sun Alerts.
Note - The download of the Solaris 10 8/11 SPARC Bundle is identified by the number 14158708 at http://support.oracle.com.
Install the patches listed in Minimum Required Patchset for Oracle Solaris 10 09/10 before using the server with the Oracle Solaris 10 09/10 OS.
Table 1-3 Minimum Required Patchset for Oracle Solaris 10 09/10
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In addition, you should download and install “Recommended OS Patchset Solaris 10 SPARC”. This patchset contains Oracle Solaris 10 OS patches that address current Sun Alerts.
Note - The download of the Solaris 10 09/10 SPARC Bundle is identified by the number 13153809 at http://support.oracle.com.
To use the server with the Oracle Solaris 10 10/09 OS, install the patches listed in Minimum Required Patchset for Oracle Solaris 10 09/10, as well as the Oracle Solaris 10 09/10 SPARC Bundle. In addition, you should download and install “Recommended OS Patchset Solaris 10 SPARC”. This patchset contains Oracle Solaris 10 OS patches that address current Sun Alerts.
Note - The download of the Solaris 10 8/11 SPARC Bundle is identified by the number 13153814 at http://support.oracle.com.