Minimum Supported Card Firmware Version

The Oracle Flash Accelerator F160 PCIe Card runs with the minimum required firmware package listed below:

Firmware Minimum Required Drive Firmware Version Recommended Firmware Version Oracle 1.6 TB NVMe SSD Package 22318131 F160 SW 1.0.0 - FIRMWARE (Patch) 22318131 F160 SW 1.0.0 - FIRMWARE (Patch) Oracle Server X5 series servers: 8DV1RA13 SPARC servers: 8DV1RA13 Fujitsu M10 series servers: 8DV1RA13

Summary of Changes in Firmware RA13 Release

The following improvements/changes were included in firmware RA13 release of the Oracle F160 Flash Card:

• For Oracle X5 series servers.

• For SPARC S7 series servers.

• For SPARC T7 series servers.

• For SPARC M7 series servers.

• For Fujitsu M10 series servers.

• Changes were made to improve enumeration in SPARC systems or host systems that have rapid resets.

• If you install the Oracle Flash Accelerator F160 PCIe Card as an x-option, you must update the firmware from RA12 to RA13, or a subsequent release if available. Servers ordered with this option already have the updated firmware.

Summary of Changes in Firmware RA12 Release

The following improvements/changes were included in firmware RA12 release of the Oracle F160 Flash Card:

• Oracle F160 Flash Cards with firmware version RA10 must be updated to version RA11 before being updated to version RA12. Therefore, an update to version RA12 from version RA10 requires a two-step process. First, update the Oracle F160 Flash Card to version RA11; then, update the Oracle F160 Flash Card to version RA12.

• Changes were made in the NVMe flash firmware to improve I/O task handling resources and modifications to the background refresh algorithms and operations. The flash performance is equivalent or slightly higher in this release.

• Changes were made to improve performance of workloads smaller than 4KB. Improvements are significantly higher for smaller workloads and all workloads should also be slightly higher. Less than 4KB block workloads have equivalent or slightly higher performance.

• Improvements were made to the power cycle bootloader. Corrected S3/S4 power cycling firmware download timeout issue, improved data units read/write reporting. During power cycling/S4, the drive no longer fails to recover.

• Corrected bootloader stop during warm reset, which was generated by a PCIe interrupt that disabled the device. Changes to power loss interrupt: Disable Logical ASSERT_XH067.

• Changes were made to the device power supply for overtemp logging and self-protection against race conditions. Corrected the device power supply settings.