16 GB Dual-Rank DIMMs and System Firmware
Supported Oracle Solaris OS and Firmware Information
Downloading Patches and Software Updates
Sun Storage 6 Gb SAS PCIe RAID HBA, Internal PCIe Card Must Be Installed in PCIe Slot 5
Certain PCIe Cards With Large Connectors Can Not Be Installed in Slot 7 (CR 7110077)
Downloading sas2ircu Documentation for SPARC T4 Servers
Sun Type 6 Keyboards Are Not Supported by SPARC T4 Series Servers
L2 Cache UEs Are Sometimes Reported as Core Faults Without Any Cache Line Retirements (CR 7071237)
Upon a Reboot After an Unrecoverable Hardware Error, CPUs Might Not Start (CR 7075336)
Spurious Error Message During Initial Oracle Solaris OS Installation (CR 6971896)
The cfgadm Command Fails for Certain HBAs (CR 7044759)
Blue LED on Drive Does Not Light When the Drive Is Ready to Remove (CR 7082700)
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. For 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.
Install the patches listed before using the server with the Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 OS.
147440-25
147159-08
147707-10
147507-04 (If Oracle VM Server for SPARC is installed.)
147289-05 (System firmware 8.1.4.e)
In addition to installing the minimum required patches listed, you should download and install “Recommended OS Patchset Solaris 10 SPARC”. This patchset contains Oracle Solaris 10 OS patches that address current Sun Alerts.
If you want to use an earlier version of the Oracle Solaris OS, you must install the Solaris 10 8/11 SPARC Bundle. After installing the Solaris 10 8/11 SPARC Bundle, you must then install the required patches listed. See Downloading Patches and Software Updates.
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 #