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
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)
Solid State Drives (SSDs) that have been qualified by Oracle can now be used in SPARC T3-1 servers configured with eight-disk capable backplanes. Qualified 32-GB SSDs can also be used in servers with sixteen-disk backplanes.
Note - Only SSDs with 32-GB capacity can be used in sixteen-disk backplanes.
To see the list of SSDs that have been qualified for use in SPARC T3-1 servers, go to the following page in the Sun System Handbook:
https://support.oracle.com/handbook_private/Systems/SPARC_T3_1/components.html
Note - The Sun System Handbook is on the Oracle support web site, so you will be asked to log in.
The following is a summary of the rules governing the deployment of SSDs in a SPARC T3-1 server:
A maximum of eight SSDs can be installed in a server regardless of the type of backplane.
SSDs and traditional disk-based hard drives can be installed in any numerical combination, so long as the number of SSDs does not exceed eight.
SSDs and traditional disk-based hard drives can be distributed among the disk slots in any configuration.
RAID volumes must not be configured with a mix of both SSDs and disk-based hard drives. Either storage technology can be used in a RAID array, but mixing them in a single volume places the integrity of the data at risk.
In servers with sixteen-disk capable backplanes that use the onboard SAS-2 controllers, the backplane must be partitioned into two eight-disk zones. For disk zoning details, see Disk Zoning Rules for Backplanes With Sixteen-Disk Capacity and Disk Zone Management Using the zoningcli Command.
In servers with sixteen-disk capable backplanes that use an internal PCIe RAID HBA instead of the onboard SAS-2 controllers, disk zoning must be disabled. In this case, all disks in the backplane are seen by the HBA as a pool of storage devices. See Disk Zone Management Using the zoningcli Command.