Important Notes, Issues and Workarounds – M4000/M5000 and M8000/M9000 Servers Only

Warning Label on M9000 Server AC Section

The warning label on the AC section indicates that the terminal connection sequence has been changed. Connect in accordance with the terminal sequence described on the warning label.

RAID-Capable IOUA

M8000/M9000 servers can now support RAID under certain conditions. See XCP Support for RAID-Capable IOUA Cards in M8000/M9000 Servers for more information.

RAID information for M8000/M9000 servers has been added to the June 2012 versions of the SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Service Manual and the SPARC Enterprise M3000/M4000/M5000/M8000/M9000 Servers Administration Guide.

DVD Drives and cfgadm

The Oracle Solaris cfgadm(1M) command does not always unconfigure a DVD drive from a domain on SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 servers.Disable the Volume Management Daemon (vold) before unconfiguring a DVD drive with the cfgadm(1M) command. To disable vold, stop the daemon by issuing the command /etc/init.d/volmgt stop. After the device has been removed or inserted, restart the daemon by issuing the command /etc/init.d/volmgt start.

F20 PCIe Cards

This release supports Sun Flash Accelerator F20 PCIe cards on M4000/M5000 and M8000/M9000 servers. These cards are not supported on M3000 servers.

On M4000/M5000 servers, configure the F20 card only in slots 1 and 3. This restriction does not apply to M8000/M9000 servers.

For more information see the F20 documentation:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/documentation/index.html

Sun Crypto Accelerator 6000 Cards

If you are not using the correct version of the Sun Crypto Accelerator (SCA) 6000 card driver, hot-plug operations on SCA 6000 cards can cause SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 servers to panic or hang. Version 1.1 of the SCA6000 driver and firmware supports hot-plug operations after the required bootstrap firmware upgrade has been performed. Version 1.0 of the SCA6000 driver does not support hot-plug and should not be used.

U320 PCIe SCSI Card

The U320 PCIe SCSI card, part number 375-3357-01/02, is not supported in PCI cassettes for SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 servers. Customers must use part number 375-3357-03 at a minimum.

Patches for QLogic PCIe Cards

The following QLogic cards require drivers supplied in patch 125166-10:

• Sun StorageTek Enterprise Class 4-Gigabit Dual-Port Fiber Channel PCIe HBA (part SG-XPCIE2FC-QF4)

• Sun StorageTek Enterprise Class 4-Gigabit Single-Port Fiber Channel PCIe HBA (part SG-XPCIE1FC-QF4)

Patches for Emulex PCI Express (PCIe) Cards

The following Emulex cards require drivers supplied in patch 120222-27:

• Sun StorageTek Enterprise Class 4-Gigabit Dual-Port Fiber Channel PCIe HBA (part SG-XPCIE2FC-EM4)

• Sun StorageTek Enterprise Class 4-Gigabit Single-Port Fiber Channel PCIe HBA (part SG-XPCIE1FC-EM4)

Hardware Functionality Issues and Limitations

This section describes known issues in this release.

• The use of the External I/O Expansion Unit to connect the host server to an external boot disk drive is not supported

• Do not use the CD‐RW/DVD‐RW drive unit and the TAPE drive unit at the same time.

• Power cables are not redundant on single power feed servers without the dual power feed option. All power cables must be connected and powered on at all times.

• DR operations on an M8000/M9000 server might fail with a misleading message regarding the board being unavailable for DR after the addfru(8) or replacefru(8) command has been used for active replacement. This happens when the active replacement is done without the diagnostic test in the maintenance menu. Execute the diagnosis in the maintenance menu of the addfru(8) or replacefru(8) command to avoid this problem. To recover, execute the testsb(8) command or delete the CPU/memory board unit using the deletefru(8) command and then retry the addfru(8) command.

• Contact your sales representative for tape drive unit options.

• The M4000/M5000 servers are cold-service machines. Hot-swapping of the CPU module (CPUM), memory board (MEMB), I/O unit (IOU), or XSCF unit is not supported.