Qualified Firmware for Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Controller Software Release 2.4.4.5

Table 5-1, "Qualified Firmware Release 2.4.4.5 for Ethernet-based Systems," lists the firmware versions that have been qualified by Oracle for Private Cloud Appliance Release 2.4.4.5. All required firmware packages are provided on the Controller Software ISO image.

Before upgrading to Release 2.4.4.5, be sure to read the following firmware notes.

Additional Firmware Notes

The upgrade to Private Cloud Appliance Release 2.4.4.4 includes the following changes to Cisco Firmware 10.3(4a):

  • The Cisco spine and leaf switch files are modified to set auto-recovery as suggested by Cisco to fix 35984246. These leaf and spine files are updated during upgrade when pca-misc-tasks runs. If the switch is reloaded, run pca-misc-tasks to add this change to the leaf and spine switches. For more information, contact Oracle Support and reference [PCA 2.x] - After a Power Outage a PCA Operating on only One Leaf Switch Can Not Locate its Peer vPC (Doc ID 2987504.1).

  • The update to Cisco Firmware 10.3(4a) includes the following change: The default configuration for resource limit for VRF under the VDC configuration was increased by 1 to accommodate a new feature in Cisco Firmware 10.3(4a). This change has no functional impact and will be reverted in the next Cisco Firmware update. See Cisco bug "CSCwh68545 Default resource limit change for VRFs" for more information.

The upgrade to Private Cloud Appliance Release 2.4.4.3 includes the following changes:

  • The Cisco spine switch files are modified to set "system dot1q-tunnel transit vlan 3040-3088" as suggested by Cisco to fix bug 34837709. The spine switch files are updated during upgrade when pca-misc-tasks runs. If the switch is reloaded from a backup that does not include this change, run pca-misc-tasks to add this change to the spine switches. For more information, contact Oracle Support and reference "[PCA 2.x] Port Based Network Redundancy Check (Port Down, Cable Pull, Admin Shut etc.) / Port Based Failover Scenario Leads to Connectivity Loss on PCA Spine Switches (Doc ID 2920424.1)."

  • The update to Cisco 10.2.5M includes the following changes:

    • The Spine Filesystem Check is removed from the pca-admin diagnose spine-switch output, and the "Leaf Filesystem Check" is removed from the pca-admin diagnose leaf-switch output.

    • When you use EM and EMVT to discover the Private Cloud Appliance X8-2, the Cisco switches are not discovered, which causes appliance discovery to fail. To prevent appliance discovery from failing, deselect all Cisco switches before you begin appliance discovery.

The upgrade to Private Cloud Appliance Release 2.4.4.2 includes the following changes:

  • The Cisco spine switches are modified to set "spanning-tree bpdufilter enable" for all uplinks except for the default_5_2 port-group and its associated interfaces (eth1/5/3 and eth1/5/4), which are incomplete by default. The spine switch configurations are updated during upgrade when pca-misc-tasks runs. If the switch is reloaded from a backup that does not include this change, run pca-misc-tasks to add this change to the spine switches. When a new uplink port-group is created, the "spanning-tree bpdufilter enable" will be set by default in the port-channel interface configuration.

The upgrade to Private Cloud Appliance Release 2.4.4.1 includes the following changes:

  • The Cisco leaf/spine switch backup configuration from "show running-config" is incomplete for interfaces forcefully added to "channel-group 1". The correct setting is shown in the default leaf/spine switch base configurations as "channel-group 1 force mode on".

    pca-admin reload of a leaf/spine switch from a backup file will modify the "channel-group 1" to append the "force mode on" to that setting.

    Manual reload of a leaf/spine switch from a backup file that contains the incomplete "channel-group 1" setting will cause a vPC peer-link failure. All manual reloads of a leaf/spine switch must have the "channel-group 1 force mode on" setting corrected before reloading the switch.

  • The upgrade to Cisco firmware 9.3(8) and later versions no longer allows a non-default MTU setting on a vPC peer-link port-channel.

    The Cisco leaf/spine switch configuration files have the mtu setting removed from the "interface port-channel1" description. Switches that are upgraded originally from the NXOS 7.0.3.I7.9 firmware may carry the residual mtu setting forward when upgrading to later Cisco NXOS versions. The "interface port-channel1" mtu setting is not removed during switch upgrade, but is ignored after the upgrade to NXOS 9.3(8) and later versions.

    pca-admin reload of a leaf/spine switch from a backup file containing the "interface port-channel1" mtu setting will remove the mtu setting automatically during the pca-admin reload of the switch.

    Manual reload of a leaf/spine switch from a backup file that contains the "interface port-channel1" mtu setting will cause a vPC peer-link failure. All manual reloads of a leaf/spine switch must have the disallowed mtu setting removed from the "interface port-channel1" description before reloading the switch.

Table 5-1 Qualified Firmware Release 2.4.4.5 for Ethernet-based Systems

Component Firmware Version Patch

System Software

  • Oracle Private Cloud Appliance 2.4.4.5

  • Oracle VM Manager 3.4.7.6

  • Oracle VM Server 3.4.7

  
Compute/Management Nodes    

Kernel management node/compute node

UEK6

kernel-uek-5.4.17-2136.336.5.1.el7uek.x86_64.rpm

  

Oracle Server X8-2 management node/compute node

SW 3.7.3

  • ILOM 5.1.4.25 r160118

  • BIOS 51.14.01.00

  • Patch 37154273: Oracle Server X8-2 SW 3.7.3 - FIRMWARE PACK

CX-5 Adapter 16.35.4030 (Oracle_Dual_Port_100_Gb_RoCE_Adapter)

RAID SAS9361-16i (Vail) : 4.740.00-8477

37154273

Oracle Server X9-2 compute node

SW 3.7.3

  • ILOM 5.1.4.25 r160118

  • BIOS 61.11.01.00

  • Patch 37153962: Oracle Server X9-2 SW 3.7.3 - FIRMWARE PACK

CX-5 Adapter 16.35.4030 (Oracle_Dual_Port_CX5_100_Gb_OCP_Adapter)

37153962

Storage    

Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance ZS7-2 Controller Server

  • Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance software OS8.8.75

    2013.06.05.8.75,1-1.1

  • Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance software OS8.8.75+IDR 5746.1

    2013.06.05.8.75,1-2.75.5746.1

For more information, see Upgraded Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance Software.

1.2 TB 10 K RPM Drive

ORA6 (or above)

 
Switches

Cisco Nexus 9348GC-FXP Switch

Cisco Firmware 10.3(4a)

Cisco Nexus 9336C-FX2 Switch

Cisco Firmware 10.3(4a)