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SPARC Enterprise
M8000/M9000 Servers
Product Notes
For XCP version 1072
Order No. U41813-J-Z816-1-76
Part No. 820-6008-10
September 2008, Revision A
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Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc., 4150 Network Circle, Santa Clara, California 95054, U.S.A. and FUJITSU LIMITED, 1-1, Kamikodanaka 4-chome, Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa-ken 211-8588, Japan. All rights reserved. Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Fujitsu Limited each own or control intellectual property rights relating to products and technology described in this document, and such products, technology and this document are protected by copyright laws, patents and other intellectual proper
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Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc., 4150 Network Circle, Santa Clara, California 95054, U.S.A. et FUJITSU LIMITED, 1-1, Kamikodanaka 4-chome, Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa-ken 211-8588, Japon. Tous droits réservés. Entrée et revue tecnical fournies par Fujitsu Limited sur des parties de ce matériel. Sun Microsystems, Inc. et Fujitsu Limited détiennent et contrôlent toutes deux des droits de propriété intellectuelle relatifs aux produits et technologies décrits dans ce document. De mêm
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Contents Preface vii Technical Support vii Software Resources vii Accessing Documentation viii Fujitsu Siemens Computers Welcomes Your Comments viii General Information about XCP 1 Supported Firmware and Operating System 1 Solaris OS Patch Information 2 Patches for SPARC64 VI Processors 2 Patches for SPARC64 VII Processors 2 Updating to XCP 3 Resetting the XSCF Firmware 3 Updating from a Version Earlier Than XCP 1050 3 Updating from a Version Earlier Than XCP 1070 4 Functionality Issues and Limi
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Hardware Issues and Workarounds 7 Sun Crypto Accelerator 6000 Cards 7 Information about Software 8 XCP Issues and Workarounds 8 Solaris OS Issues and Workarounds 12 Software Documentation Updates 27 Identifying Degraded Memory in a System 29 Identifying Different Memory Sizes in a System Board 29 Using the showdevices Command 29 Using the prtdiag Command to Identify Memory Size 30 Identifying Permanent Memory in a Target Board 31 CPU Upgrade 32 Installation Notes 32 Updating the OpenBoot PROM Fi
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Preface ® These product notes contain late-breaking information about the SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 server hardware, software, or documentation that became known after the documentation set was published. Technical Support If you have technical questions or issues that are not addressed in the SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 servers documentation, contact a sales representative or a certified service engineer. Software Resources The Solaris™ Operating System and Sun Java™ Enterprise System
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Accessing Documentation Instructions for installing, administering, and using your SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 servers are provided in the SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 servers documentation set. The documentation set is available for download from the following website: http://manuals.fujitsu-siemens.com/ Note – Information in these product notes supersedes the information in the SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 servers documentation set. Solaris documentation is available at: http://www.sun.co
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General Information about XCP 1072 This section describes the general information about XCP 1072. ■ Supported Firmware and Operating System ■ Updating to XCP ■ Functionality Issues and Limitations Supported Firmware and Operating System The following firmware and operating system (OS) are supported in this release. TABLE 1 Firmware and Operating System Versions Firmware and Operaing System Version XSCF Control Package (XCP) 1072 Solaris™ Operating System SPARC64 VI processors: 10 8/07 or late
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Note – By using the Solaris 10 8/07 installation DVD, you cannot boot the domain mounted with the SPARC64 VII processors. When you newly install Solaris OS to a domain mounted with the SPARC64 VII processors, use the Solaris 10 5/08 installation DVD to install Solaris 10 5/08. For XCP, you can download the latest files of firmware at the following websites. Global Site: http://www.fujitsu.com/sparcenterprise/firmware/ Japanese Site: http://primeserver.fujitsu.com/sparcenterprise/download/fir
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■ 119254-51 or later ■ 125891-01 or later ■ 127755-01 or later ■ 127127-11 The patches are not required for servers running Solaris 10 5/08 OS or later. Note – See “Software Resources” on page vii for information on how to find the latest patches. Installation information and README files are included in the patch download. Patches for Emulex PCI-E Cards The following Emulex cards require drivers supplied in patch 120222-26: ■ XSEFC402AF Sun StorageTek Enterprise Class 4Gb Dual-Port Fibre Chan
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Updating from a Version Earlier Than XCP 1050 ■ You cannot update to XCP 1071 or later directly. If you are currently running a version earlier than XCP 1050, you must first update to an interim version of XCP between 1050 and 1070 (inclusive) before updating to XCP 1071 or later. Refer to the product notes document for the interim version for instructions. ■ Delete any accounts named "admin". Any accounts named admin must be deleted prior to updating to XCP 1050 or later. This account name
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General Functionality Issues and Limitations Caution – For dynamic reconfiguration (DR) and hot-plug issues, see TABLE 4. ■ Domains using the ZFS file system cannot use Dynamic Reconfiguration. ■ The maximum number of IOUA (Base I/O Card) cards per domain is limited to six cards. ■ Do not use the internal CD-RW/DVD-RW drive unit and the TAPE drive unit at the same time. ■ For this XCP release, the XSCF browser user interface (XSCF Web) does not support the External I/O Expansion Unit Mana
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■ On the SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 servers with XCP 1050 or later, the dual XSCF Unit feature is working. Therefore, you can not downgrade SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 servers with XCP 1050 or later to XCP 1040 or XCP 1041, which does not support dual XSCF Unit feature. ■ You cannot use the following user account names, as they are reserved for system use: root, bin, daemon, adm, operator, nobody, sshd, rpc, rpcuser, ldap, apache, ntp, admin, and default. ■ The Firefox 3 is not support
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Information about Hardware This section describes the special instructions and the issues about the SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 servers hardware. ■ Hardware Issues and Workarounds Hardware Issues and Workarounds TABLE 2 lists known hardware issues and possible workarounds. TABLE 2 Hardware Issues and Workarounds CR ID Description Workaround 6433420 The domain console might display a Mailbox Issue a reset -all command from the timeout or IOCB interrupt timeout error during OpenBoot PROM (OK)
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Information about Software This section describes the special instructions and the issues about the SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 servers software. ■ XCP Issues and Workarounds ■ Solaris OS Issues and Workarounds ■ Software Documentation Updates ■ Identifying Degraded Memory in a System ■ Identifying Different Memory Sizes in a System Board ■ Identifying Permanent Memory in a Target Board ■ CPU Upgrade XCP Issues and Workarounds TABLE 3 lists known XCP issues and possible workarounds. TABLE 3 XC
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TABLE 3 XCP Issues and Workarounds (Continued) ID Description Workaround RTIF1- Using the XSCF Web, when you selected SSH To specify the value which exceeds the 070823-001 on the snapshot screen, the maximum number maximum number of character input for the of character input for Host, Directory, ID, and XSCF Web, use XSCF Shell. Password doesn't correspond to the maximum number of character input on the XSCF Shell. RTIF1- On the XSCF Web, when you select Domain Select Domain Mode Configuratio
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TABLE 3 XCP Issues and Workarounds (Continued) ID Description Workaround RTIF1- When you execute XCP Sync on the Firmware There is no workaround. However, the XCP 070914-025 Update page, after 15 minutes, the error Sync process has been continuously executed. message "Another flashupdate is now Check the XSCF update completion message processing" or "The page cannot be displayed" on the monitoring message to confirm the may appear. completion of Sync process. RTIF1- The snmp daemon might qu
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TABLE 3 XCP Issues and Workarounds (Continued) ID Description Workaround RTIF1- When you specify "localhost" to the Do not specify "localhost" to the hostname of 080512-001 hostname of the sethostname(8) command the sethostname(8) command. and reset XSCF by using the applynetwork(8) and the rebootxscf(8) commands, a process goes down in XSCF. RTIF1- When the system is stressed with many faults, Reboot the service processor using the XSCF 080526-001 the fmd process on the service processor mi
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Solaris OS Issues and Workarounds TABLE 4 lists known Solaris OS issues and possible workarounds TABLE 4 Solaris OS Issues and Workarounds CR ID Description Workaround 5076574 A PCIe error can lead to an invalid fault This bug has been fixed in Solaris 10 5/08. diagnosis on a large M8000/M9000 domain. For Solaris 10 8/07 or earlier, this has been fixed in patch 127127-11. [Workaround] Create a file /etc/fm/fmd/fmd.conf containing the following lines; setprop client. buflim 40m setprop client
