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Sun Server X3-2 (formerly Sun Fire X4170 M3) Product Notes

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Updated: August 2019
 
 

Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 Required Patches

Before installing Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 on the server, you should install the patches listed in the following table.

ILOM Remote Console issue. When using the Oracle ILOM Remote Console (eeprom variable "console" set to "text") the system could appear to hang in the final stages of halting.

Table 1  Required Patches for Oracle Solaris 10 8/11
Required Patches
CRs Fixed
CR Descriptions
150401-12
16353003
ILOM Remote Console issue. When using the Oracle ILOM Remote Console (eeprom variable "console" set to "text") the system could appear to hang in the final stages of halting.
150401-09
15786729
BIOS issue. Patch fixes issue with power limit.
145649-04
15829089
Driver issue. Patch fixes issue with crash dump during poweroff with qlge driver installed.
150631-04
15805238
Installation issue. Patch fixes intermittent install crash.
148170-02
7097919
Ethernet issue. This patch fixes an issue with Ethernet (ixgbe) ports losing link. Note that this issue also affects Oracle Solaris JumpStart installations. To support JumpStart installations, apply this patch to your Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 JumpStart miniroot image. The instructions for patching miniroot are in the Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 Installation Guide: Network Based Installations, which is available at this web site: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23823_01/html/E23800/netinstall-patch.html
147706-02
6986256
FMA support. This patch adds support for Oracle Solaris Fault Management Architecture (FMA) for the Intel processor (CPU) used in the Sun Server X3-2.
148172-01
6893274
Kernel issue. This patch fixes a problem with delayed visibility to processor threads that can cause a panic that contains the string turnstile_block and unowned mutex.
147441-08
7001739
AVX issue. This patch fixes an issue with Intel AVX support.
147156-01
6956660
Processor (CPU) performance counters support. This patch adds performance counter support for the Intel processor used in the Sun Server X3-2.
147150-01
7052663
HBA issue. This patch fixes a panic that can occur when booting from an SGX-SAS6-INT-Z host bus adapter (HBA).
148099-03
7026372
SCSI issue. This patch fixes an issue with SCSI DMA transfers during cable disconnects that reports "Error setting up next portion of DMA transfer".