Chapter 5 Firmware Qualification

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This chapter provides information about Oracle Private Cloud Appliance component firmware versions that have been qualified, through Oracle internal platform testing, for use with a specific release of the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Controller Software.

Interim Firmware Patches

Oracle periodically releases firmware patches for many products, for example to address security vulnerabilities. It may occur that an important firmware patch is released for a component of Oracle Private Cloud Appliance outside of the normal Controller Software release schedule. When this occurs, the patches go through the same testing as all other appliance firmware, but they are not added to the qualified firmware list or the installation .iso for the affected Controller Software release.

After thorough testing, important firmware patches that cannot be included in the Controller Software .iso image are made available to Oracle Private Cloud Appliance users through My Oracle Support.

5.1 Qualified Firmware for Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Controller Software Release 2.4.3

The following tables list the firmware versions that have been qualified by Oracle for Release 2.4.3. All required firmware packages are provided on the Controller Software ISO image.

Note

The OS8.8.20_Readme.html file in the ISO image applies to the OS8.8.20 version downloadable from My Oracle Support, not the version shipped in the ISO image.

Table 5.1 Qualified Firmware Release 2.4.3 for Ethernet-based Systems

Component

Version

Patch

System Software

  • Oracle Private Cloud Appliance 2.4.3 Build 8.8.3

  • Oracle VM Manager 3.4.6

  • Oracle VM Server 3.4.6

 
Compute/Management Nodes    

Kernel

  • Management node: kernel-uek-4.1.12-124.40.6.el6uek.x86_64.rpm

  • Compute node: kernel-uek-4.1.12-124.40.6.el6uek.x86_64.rpm

 

Oracle Server X8-2 management node/compute node

SW 1.2.2

  • ILOM 4.0.4.51-r134837

  • BIOS 51.02.13.00

31253607

RAID controller

X8 (4.740.00-8434)

 
Storage    

Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance ZS7-2 controller server

OS8.8.20 IDR (AK 2013.06.05.8.20,1-2.20.4392.1)

CX5 100GbE Adapter Dual Port QSFP28

16.23.1020

Do not use firmware version 16.25.8000 with Oracle Private Cloud Appliance.

1.2TB 10K RPM Drive

ORA6 (or above)

14TB Drive

A07G (or above)

Switches  

Cisco Nexus 9348GC-FXP Switch

7.0.3.I7.8

Cisco Nexus 9336C-FX2 Switch

7.0.3.I7.8


Table 5.2 Qualified Firmware Release 2.4.3 for InfiniBand-based Systems

Component

Firmware Version

Patch

System Software

  • Oracle Private Cloud Appliance 2.4.3 Build 8.8.3

  • Oracle VM Manager 3.4.6

  • Oracle VM Server 3.4.6

 
Compute/Management Nodes    

Kernel

  • Management node: kernel-uek-4.1.12-124.40.6.el6uek.x86_64.rpm

  • Compute node: kernel-uek-4.1.12-124.40.6.el6uek.x86_64.rpm

 

Oracle Server X8-2 management node/compute node

SW 1.2.2

  • ILOM 4.0.4.51-r134837

  • BIOS 51.02.13.00

31253607

Oracle Server X7-2 compute node

SW 1.7.0

  • ILOM 4.0.4.52 r133103

  • BIOS 41.06.07.00

30696356

Oracle Server X6-2 compute node

SW 2.4.2

  • ILOM 4.0.4.47 r131913

  • BIOS 38.30.02.00

30253955

Oracle Server X5-2 compute/management node

SW 2.4.0

  • ILOM 4.0.4.52 r132805

  • BIOS 30.30.02.00

30565338

Sun Server X4-2 compute/management node

SW 2.1.1

  • ILOM 4.0.4.41 r130359

  • BIOS 25.08.01.00

29781886

Sun Server X3-2 compute/management node

SW 2.2.0

  • ILOM 4.0.4.22.b r133076

  • BIOS 17.16.03.00

31458333

RAID controller

  • X8 (4.740.00-8434)

  • X7 (4.740.00-8434)

  • X6 (4.680.00-8400)

  • X5 (4.680.00-8400)

  • X4 (2.130.373-4378)

  • X3 (2.130.373-4378)

29781886

Storage    

Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance ZS5-ES software

OS8.8.20 IDR (AK 2013.06.05.8.20,1-2.20.4392.1)

Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance ZS3-ES software

OS8.8.20 IDR (AK 2013.06.05.8.20,1-2.20.4392.1)

Sun ZFS Storage Appliance 7320 software

OS8.8.20 IDR (AK 2013.06.05.8.20,1-2.20.4392.1)

1.2TB 10K RPM Drive

ORA6 (or above)

 
Switches    

Oracle Switch ES1-24

1.3.1.23

17050841

Oracle Fabric Interconnect F1-15

4.0.13

29180828

NM2-36P Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Expansion Switch software

2.2.13-2

29623156


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