Oracle® Private Cloud Appliance

Release Notes for Release 2.4.3

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F28398-10

March 2022

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Table of Contents

• Preface
• 1 About Oracle Private Cloud Appliance
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Components
• 2 Feature Overview
  • 2.1 Changes and Improvements in Release 2.4.3
  • 2.2 Changes and Improvements in Release 2.4.2
  • 2.3 Changes and Improvements in Release 2.4.1
  • 2.4 Earlier Releases
• 3 Product Accessibility
  • 3.1 Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Dashboard Accessibility Features
  • 3.2 Oracle JET User Interface Accessibility Features
  • 3.3 Documentation Accessibility
• 4 Configuration Maximums
  • 4.1 Ethernet-Based System Configuration Maximums
  • 4.2 InfiniBand-Based System Configuration Maximums
• 5 Firmware Qualification
  • 5.1 Qualified Firmware for Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Controller Software Release 2.4.3
• 6 Known Limitations and Workarounds
  • 6.1 Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Hardware
    • 6.1.1 Compute Node Boot Sequence Interrupted by LSI Bios Battery Error
    • 6.1.2 Reboot From Oracle Linux Prompt May Cause Management Node to Hang
    • 6.1.3 NM2-36P Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Expansion Switch Firmware Upgrade 2.2.9-3 Requires A Two-Phased Procedure
    • 6.1.4 Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance Firmware Upgrade 8.7.20 Requires A Two-Phased Procedure
    • 6.1.5 Interruption of iSCSI Connectivity Leads to LUNs Remaining in Standby
    • 6.1.6 Emulex Fibre Channel HBAs Discover Maximum 128 LUNs
    • 6.1.7 Fibre Channel LUN Path Discovery Is Disrupted by Other Oracle VM Operations
    • 6.1.8 Poor Oracle VM Performance During Configuration of Fibre Channel LUNs
    • 6.1.9 ILOM Firmware Does Not Allow Loopback SSH Access
    • 6.1.10 incorrect opcode Messages in the Console Log
    • 6.1.11 Megaraid Firmware Crash Dump Is Not Available
    • 6.1.12 North-South Traffic Connectivity Fails After Restarting Network
    • 6.1.13 Some Services Require an Upgrade of Hardware Management Pack
    • 6.1.14 Compute Nodes Containing Emulex HBA Card With Maximum FC Paths Reboots With Errors in Oracle VM Manager UI
    • 6.1.15 Compute Nodes Containing FC HBA With Maximum FC Paths Paths Ends Up in Dead State During Reprovisioning
  • 6.2 Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Software
    • 6.2.1 Do Not Install Additional Software on Appliance Components
    • 6.2.2 Node Manager Does Not Show Node Offline Status
    • 6.2.3 Compute Node State Changes Despite Active Provisioning Lock
    • 6.2.4 Compute Nodes Are Available in Oracle VM Server Pool Before Provisioning Completes
    • 6.2.5 Compute Node Provisioning Fails When InfiniBand Ports Are Not Configured
    • 6.2.6 Virtual Machines Remain in Running Status when Host Compute Node Is Reprovisioned
    • 6.2.7 Ethernet-Based System Management Nodes Have Non-Functional bond0 Network Interface
    • 6.2.8 Network Performance Is Impacted by VxLAN Encapsulation
    • 6.2.9 Altering Custom Network VLAN Tag Is Not Supported
    • 6.2.10 Configuring Uplinks with Breakout Ports Results in Port Group Named 'None'
    • 6.2.11 DPM Server Pool Policy Interrupts Synchronization of Tenant Group Settings
    • 6.2.12 Host Network Parameter Validation Is Too Permissive
    • 6.2.13 Virtual Appliances Cannot Be Imported Over a Host Network
    • 6.2.14 Customizations for ZFS Storage Appliance in multipath.conf Are Not Supported
    • 6.2.15 Customer Created LUNs Are Mapped to the Wrong Initiator Group
    • 6.2.16 Storage Head Failover Disrupts Running Virtual Machines
    • 6.2.17 Changing Multiple Component Passwords Causes Authentication Failure in Oracle VM Manager
    • 6.2.18 ILOM Password of Expansion Compute Nodes Is Not Synchronized During Provisioning
    • 6.2.19 SSH Host Key Mismatch After Management Node Failover
    • 6.2.20 External Storage Cannot Be Discovered Over Data Center Network
    • 6.2.21 Mozilla Firefox Cannot Establish Secure Connection with User Interface
    • 6.2.22 Virtual Machine with High Availability Takes Five Minutes to Restart when Failover Occurs
    • 6.2.23 CLI Command update appliance Is Deprecated
    • 6.2.24 Certain CLI Commands Fail in Single-command Mode
    • 6.2.25 Upgrader Checks Logged in Different Order
    • 6.2.26 Virtual Machine Loses IP Address Due to DHCP Timeout During High Network Load
    • 6.2.27 Adding the Virtual Machine Role to the Storage Network Causes Cluster to Lose Heartbeat Networking
    • 6.2.28 Adding Virtual Machine Role to the Management Network Causes Oracle VM Manager to Lose Contact with the Compute Nodes
    • 6.2.29 Inadvertant Reboot of Stand-by Management Node During Upgrade Suspends Upgrade
    • 6.2.30 Loading Incompatible Spine Switch Configuration Causes Storage Network Outage
    • 6.2.31 Cloud Backup Task Hangs When a ZFSSA Takeover is Performed During Backup
    • 6.2.32 Export VM to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Job Shows as Aborted During MN Failover but it is Running in the Background
    • 6.2.33 Remove Deprecated pca-admin diagnose software Command
    • 6.2.34 Virtual Machine get Message Failed After 200 Seconds - Observed When kube clusters are Created Concurrently
• 7 Feedback and Support
  • 7.1 Providing Feedback and Reporting Problems
  • 7.2 Contacting Oracle Specialist Support
  • 7.3 Data Collection for Service and Support

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