1. Release Notes for Release 2.4.4
  2. Firmware Qualification

5 Firmware Qualification

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.

Caution:

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.

Qualified Firmware for Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Controller Software Release 2.4.4

The following tables list the firmware versions that have been qualified by Oracle for Release 2.4.4. All required firmware packages are provided on the Controller Software ISO image.

Table 5-1 Qualified Firmware for Release 2.4.4

Component Version Patch

System Software

Oracle Private Cloud Appliance 2.4.4

  • Oracle VM Manager 3.4.7

  • Oracle VM Server 3.4.7

  • Oracle Linux 7

 

Kernel

  • Management node: kernel-uek-4.14.35-2047.503.1.1.el7uek.x86_64.rpm

  • Compute node: kernel-uek-4.14.35-2047.505.4.2.el7uek.x86_64.rpm

 

Mangement/Compute Nodes

   

Oracle Server X8-2 management node/compute node

SW 1.2.3

  • ILOM 4.0.4.51.a

  • BIOS 51.02.13.00

Oracle Server X9-2 compute node

SW 1.0.1

  • ILOM 5.0.2.20 .a

  • BIOS 61.02.04.00

 

RAID controller

X8-2: 4.740.00-8440

X9-2: 7.5.0.1152

 

CX5 100GbE Adapter Dual Port QSFP28

X8-2: 16.28.1002

X9-2: 16.29.1414

1.2TB 10K RPM Drive

X8-2: ORA9 (or above)

240GB Intel M.2

X9-2: XC311132

 

240GB Micron M.2

X9-2: D3MU001

 

3.84TB Intel SFF

X9-2: 2CV1RC30

 

3.84TB Samsung SFF

X9-2: MPK93R5Q

 

Storage Appliance

   

Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance ZS7-2 controller server

OS8.8.28

14TB Drive

A07G (or above)

Switches

   

Cisco Nexus 9348GC-FXP Switch

7.0.3.I7.9 (NXOS and EPLD)

Cisco Nexus 9336C-FX2 Switch

7.0.3.I7.9 (NXOS and EPLD)