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1.  Late-Breaking Information

Supported Chassis

Identify Your Chassis Version

Supported Hardware Components

Preinstalled Software

Minimum Supported Versions of the OS, Firmware, and Software

Required OS Patches and Package Updates

Oracle Solaris 11 OS Package Updates

Oracle Solaris 10 OS Patches

Obtain Patches

Important Firmware Upgrade Required Prior to Mixing SAS-1 and SAS-2 Components

Identifying Drive Logical Device Names and Physical Locations

Correlate WWN Device Names With Physical Locations (diskinfo Command)

Correlate WWN Device Names With Physical Locations (probe-scsi-all Command)

Oracle Solaris Jumpstart WWN Syntax

Interactive Installation Example

2.  Known Product Issues

Hardware Issues

Sun Type 6 Keyboards are Not Supported by SPARC T4 Series Servers

PSH Might Not Clear a Retired Cache Line on a Replaced Motherboard (CR 7031216)

2-Meter USB Cable Length Limit (7048419)

Uncorrectable L2 Cache Errors are Sometimes Reported as Core Faults Without Any Cache Line Retirement (CR 7071237 and CR 7071974)

During a Reboot After an Unrecoverable Hardware Error, CPUs Might Not Start (CR 7075336)

Blue LED on Drive Does Not Light When the Drive is Ready to Remove (CR 7082700)

Firmware, OS, and Other Software Issues

fault.memory.memlink-uc Fault Did Not Cause Panic as Stated by System Message (CR 6940599)

Timestamp for an Oracle ILOM Fault/Critical Event Might Be off by One Hour (CR 6943957)

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

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

Unable to Configure RAID Volume Sizes Other Than the Max Size When Using the sas2ircu Command (CR 6983210)

Fault Management Sometimes Sends Resolved Cases to the SP (CR 6983432)

Units Used to Define the MIB Power Management Time Limit are Reported in Seconds (CR 6993008)

Spurious Interrupt Message in System Console When Using Oracle VTS (CR 7038266)

Intermittent Link Training Timeout Displayed During Power Cycles (CR 7043201)

The cfgadm Command Might Fail on SG-SAS6-REM-Z or SGX-SAS6-REM-Z HBAs (CR 7044759)

Message From cpustat Refers to Processor Documentation Incorrectly (CR 7046898)

Using trapstat Might Cause a Panic (CR 7052070)

reboot disk Command Occasionally Fails When disk Argument Picks Up Extra Characters (CR 7050975)

PCIe Correctable Errors Might Be Reported (CR 7051331)

Watchdog Timeouts Seen With Heavy Workloads and Maximum Memory Configurations (CR 7083001)

ereport.fm.fmd.module Generated During a Reboot of an SDIO Domain (CR 7085231)

Oracle VTS dtlbtest Hangs When CPU Threading Mode is Set to max-ipc (CR 7094158)

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

Supported Hardware Components

Hardware Component
Description
DIMMs
  • 4 Gbyte (Dual-rank x4)

  • 8 Gbyte (Dual-rank x4)

  • 16 Gbyte (Quad-rank x4)

  • 16 Gbyte (Dual-rank x4)

  • 32 Gbyte (Quad-rank x4)
All DIMMs installed in the server module must be the same type of DIMM (same capacity and same rank classification).

The 16-Gbyte dual-rank and the 32-Gbyte quad-rank DIMMs require system firmware version 8.1.2.b or later. See Minimum Supported Versions of the OS, Firmware, and Software.

For additional DIMM configuration information, refer to the SPARC T4-1B Server Module Service Manual.
NEMs
NEM 7100091 – Sun Blade 6000 Virtualized 40 GbE NEM
Requires:

  • For 1GbE connectivity – no FEM required.

  • For 10GbE connectivity – FEM 7100283 or 7100633.

  • For SAS2 storage connectivity – REM SG- or SGX- SAS6-REM-Z

This NEM's documentation is at: http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=E21077-01
NEM 2073A – Sun Blade 6000 Ethernet Switched Network Express Module 24p 10GbE NEM
Requires:

  • For 10GbE network connectivity – FEM 4871A-Z.

  • For storage connectivity – REM SG-SAS6-REM-Z.

This NEM's documentation is at: http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=E19285-01
NEM 4338A – Sun Blade 6000 Virtualized Multi-Fabric 10GbE M2 NEM
Requires:

  • For 1GbE connectivity – no FEM required.

  • For 10GbE connectivity – FEM 7100283 or 7100633.

  • For SAS2 storage connectivity – REM SG- or SGX- SAS6-REM-Z.

This NEM's documentation is at: http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=E19530-01
NEM 4250A –Sun Blade 6000 Network Express Module 10-port 1 GbE Pass-Through NEM
Provides GbE connectivity – no FEM required.
REMs
REM SG(X)-SAS6-REM-Z – Sun StorageTek 6 Gb SAS REM HBA
Prior to installation, update firmware on SAS-1 components. See Important Firmware Upgrade Required Prior to Mixing SAS-1 and SAS-2 Components.

This REM's documentation is at: http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=E19946-01
FEMs
FEM 7100283 or 7100633 – PCI-E Pass-Through FEM
Supported.
FEM X4871A-Z – Sun Dual 10GbE PCIe 2.0 FEM
Supported.

This FEM's documentation is at: http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=E19539-01
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