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Sun Network QDR InfiniBand Gateway Switch Product Notes for Firmware Version 2.0 |
1. Sun InfiniBand QDR Gateway Switch Product Notes
General Information and Issues
Software Information and Issues
Main Board, Management Controller, and Chassis Serial Numbers
High Availability in Partitions
Firmware Update Considerations
Hardware Information and Issues
Documentation Information and Issues
smpartition Command Guidelines
VNIC Configuration on Linux Hosts in Gateway Manual Mode
Corrections to Creating Virtual I/O Adapters (Oracle Solaris)
Configure IP Addresses on the Data Link (Oracle Solaris)
Features and Functionality Documented
Acquire the ConnectX-2 Firmware
Upgrading the Gateway Firmware
The gateway documentation describes how to retrieve the chassis serial number using the showfruinfo command or the /SYS/MB Oracle ILOM target. These methods actually display the serial number of the main board and the management controller respectively, and not the gateway chassis. The gateway chassis serial number is provided on the pull-out tab on the left side front of the gateway chassis, adjacent to power supply 0.
To allow communication fail-over between HCAs belonging to the same operating system instance, the HCA ports must be members of the same partition and have identical membership type (full or limited).
Having both full and limited port memberships within a partition for the same operating system instance creates a configuration instability that might cause subtle communication problems.
You must specify the value of the email_custom_sender property of an email alert rule, because the alert does not use the custom_sender property of the /SP/clients/smtp target.
The following time zones are only supported in firmware versions 1.3.4, 2.0.7-2, and 2.0.8-1. If you upgrade or downgrade to a firmware version other than 1.3.4, 2.0.7-2, or 2.0.8-1 you must set an alternative time zone.
America/Argentina/Salta
America/Argentina/San_Luis
America/Bahia_Banderas
America/Kralendijk
America/Lower_Princes
America/Matamoros
America/Metlakatla
America/North_Dakota/Beulah
America/Ojinaga
America/Santa_Isabel
America/Santarem
America/Sitka
Antarctica/Macquarie
Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh
Asia/Kathmandu
Asia/Kolkata
Asia/Novokuznetsk
Pacific/Chuuk
Pacific/Pohnpei
If you are going to downgrade the firmware to a version earlier than 2.0, you must remove user partitions and depopulate the Subnet Manager nodes list. Refer to Gateway Administration, removing partitions for firmware downgrade.
If you are going to downgrade from firmware 2.0.x to 1.3.4_1 or earlier, you might see these type of messages in the /var/log/message file after the downgrade:
lda: Unknown config parameter: ErrLogCount=100; .
lda: Unknown config parameter: ErrLogTimeInterval=100; .
The ErrLogCount and ErrLogTimeInterval configuration parameters introduced in firmware 2.0.x are unknown to firmware version 1.3.4-1 and earlier LDAs. The LDA logs these messages and ignores them from there on. The messages appear once per LDA startup and are harmless.
If you later upgrade from firmware 1.3.4-1 to 2.0.x and the ErrLogCount and ErrLogTimeInterval configuration parameters are absent, the 2.0.x LDA uses the compiled default values. Consequently, no LDA messages regarding these configuration parameters are recorded.
To configure and use VNICs from an InfiniBand host, the host must have the following software and firmware installed:
BXOFED software. See Acquire the BXOFED Software.
ConnectX-2 firmware version 2.7.000 or higher. See Acquire the ConnectX-2 Firmware.
Both of these software packages are available from Oracle.
When starting the gateway or when restarting the Bridge Manager (bxm), there might be 65535 symbol errors on the internal links between the I4 switch chip and the BridgeX chips. These errors are identified in hardware commands such as getportcounters or in InfiniBand commands such as ibdiagnet.
Workaround: Manually reset the error counters using the following commands:
# getportcounters 1 -R; getportcounters 2 -R; getportcounters 3 -R; getportcounters 4 -R
Typing help all within either the /SYS/Switch_Diag, /SYS/Gateway_Mgmt, or /SYS/Fabric_Mgmt restricted Linux shells lists the commands available to those shells.
In the output, the checkguidfilesftree command is listed, however, the command is not supported.
Conversely, the fdconfig command is not listed in the output, but is supported by the /SYS/Fabric_Mgmt restricted Linux shell.