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SPARC T3-1 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

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

2.  Known Product Issues

Hardware Issues

SAS Command Might Fail to Complete When Certain SAS Devices Are Put Under Heavy Load (CR 7088469)

SPARC T3 and T4 Platforms Might See Dropped or Double Character Input From USB Keyboards (CR 7067025)

When Running Older Versions of the Oracle Solaris OS With Multiple PCIe Cards of Certain Types Installed, Some PCIe Ports Might Not Come Up

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

4 Ports Sun Dual 10 GbE SFP+ PCIe TCP RX Performance Lags PCI-E Quad Port GigE (copper) x8 Lane Card On SPARC T3-1 (CR 6943558)

Server Panics When Booting From a USB Thumbdrive Attached to the Front USB Ports (CR 6983185)

Oracle Solaris OS Issues

When a Start Address Is Not Aligned With the Largest Page Size, the OS Should Use the Next Available Page Size (CR 7048380)

Cannot Boot Oracle Solaris 10 10/09 OS (U8) From the Internal DVD

In a Zoned Sixteen-Disk Backplane, the Oracle Solaris format Utility Sees All Disks in the Controller 0 Zone (CR 7109778)

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)

Gigabit Ethernet (nxge) Driver Not Loading on Systems With Oracle Solaris 10 10/09 OS and Solaris 10 9/10 Patch Bundle (6995458)

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)

When diag-switch? is Set to true, Oracle Solaris OS Fails to Update EEPROM for Automatic Rebooting (CR 6982060)

False nxge Warning Messages (CR 6938085)

Benign Error Message: mptsas request inquiry page 0x89 for SATA target :a failed (6986482)

Firmware Issues

Cold Reset Adds One Day to System Time (CR 7127740)

In Servers With an Unzoned 16-Disk Backplanes, Setting a RAID Controller to Its Default State Deletes RAID Configurations From Both Controllers (6999411)

e1000g Driver Generates Spurious ereports When Installing Oracle Solaris OS Over a Sun PCIe Dual Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (6958011)

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)

Cannot Initiate Two Consecutive probe-scsi-all Commands in Systems With 8Gb FC PCI-Express, Emulex HBAs (6983959)

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)

sas2ircu Message That RAID Volume Sizes Other Than “MAX” Are Not Supported Needs Clarification (6983210)

Chapter 1

Late-breaking Information

These product notes contain important and late-breaking information about Oracle's SPARC T3-1 server.

This information is organized into the following sections: