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SP ARC ® Enter pr ise M8000/M9000 Ser v ers Product Notes F or XCP v ersion 1060 Order No . U41758-J-Z816-2-76 P ar t No. 82 0-3792-11 F ebruary 2008, Re vision A.
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v Contents Preface vii Technical Support vii Software Resources vii Accessing Documentation viii Fujitsu Siemens Computers Welcomes Your Comments viii SP ARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Product Not.
vi SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP Version 1060 • F ebr uar y 2008 Software Issues 10 XCP Issues and W orkar ounds 10 Solaris Issues and W orkarounds 15 Identifying Perman.
vii Pr eface These product notes contain late-br eaking information about the SP ARC ® Enterprise M8000/M9000 server har dware, softwar e, or documentation that became known after the documentation set was published.
viii SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP Version 1060 • February 2008 Accessing Documentation Instructions for installing, admin i ster ing, and using your SP ARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 servers ar e provided in th e SP ARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 servers documentation set.
1 SP ARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Pr oduct Notes These product notes contain late-br eaking information about the SP ARC ® Enterprise M8000/M9000 server har dware, softwar e, or documentation that became known after the documentation set was published.
2 SP ARC Enter prise M8000 /M9000 Ser vers Product Notes for XCP V ersion 1060 • Februar y 2008 Japanese Site: http://primeserver.fujitsu.com/sparcenterprise/download /firmwa re/ Note – When the XCP version preins talled in your server is under XCP 1060, you must upgrade to XSCF Control Package(XCP) 1060 or later .
SP ARC Enter pr ise M8000/M9000 Ser vers Product Notes 3 Note – See “Software Resources” on page vii for information on how to find the latest patch es.
4 SP ARC Enter prise M8000 /M9000 Ser vers Product Notes for XCP V ersion 1060 • Februar y 2008 Known Issues This section describes known is sues in this releas e. General Functionality Is sues and Limitations Caution – For dynamic reconfiguration (DR) and hot-plug issues, see T ABLE 4 .
SP ARC Enter pr ise M8000/M9000 Ser vers Product Notes 5 ■ T o comple te updating the OpenBoot PROM firmware in the target domain, be sure to po wer off/on the domain. ■ In case that Solaris OS is a single user mode, if you switch fr om the domain console to the XSCF Shell, Solaris OS might be started up to multi-user mode.
6 SP ARC Enter prise M8000 /M9000 Ser vers Product Notes for XCP V ersion 1060 • Februar y 2008 Har dware Installation and Service Issues This sect ion describes ha rdware specific issues an d workarounds.
SP ARC Enter pr ise M8000/M9000 Ser vers Product Notes 7 H a rd w a re D o c u m e n t a t i o n U p d a t e s T ABLE 2 lists known documentation updates. T ABLE 2 Documentation Updates Title Pa g e Number Update All SP ARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 serv ers documentation All DVD refer ences are now referr ed to as CD-RW/DVD-R W .
8 SP ARC Enter prise M8000 /M9000 Ser vers Product Notes for XCP V ersion 1060 • Februar y 2008 Updates of the SP ARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Site Planning Guide The following information supersedes the information in the SP ARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 S ervers Site Planning Guide .
SP ARC Enter pr ise M8000/M9000 Ser vers Product Notes 9 FIGURE1-18 SP ARC Enterprise M9000 Server (B ase Cabinet) + Power Cabinet Bottom Vi e w Unit: mm (inch) (F ront view) Caster Fee t Opening f or.
10 SP ARC Ent erpr ise M8000/M9 000 Ser vers Product Notes for XCP V ersion 1060 • Februar y 2008 Softwar e Issues This section des cribes softwar e specific issues an d workarounds. XCP Issues and W orkar ounds T ABLE 3 lists known XCP issues and possible workar ounds.
SP ARC Enter prise M8000/M9000 Ser v ers Product No tes 11 RT IF 1 - 070824-004 On the XSCF W eb, on the Domain Status screen, when you select an XSB displ a yed on the Domain Compone nt List, and in case the selected XSB is not yet mounted or is Uni-XS B, the pop-up scr een displays no data.
12 SP ARC Ent erpr ise M8000/M9 000 Ser vers Product Notes for XCP V ersion 1060 • Februar y 2008 RT IF 1 - 070904-006 While executing the domain power -on, domain res et or DR, in case the XS CF reboot occurred, the pr ocess may be aborted in some or all of the XSB.
SP ARC Enter prise M8000/M9000 Ser v ers Product No tes 13 RT IF 1 - 071 1 16-001 After usi ng the addfru (8) or replacefru (8) command to hotplug a CMU, further DR operations mi ght fail with a misleading message regar ding the board being unavailable for DR.
14 SP ARC Ent erpr ise M8000/M9 000 Ser vers Product Notes for XCP V ersion 1060 • Februar y 2008 RT IF 1 - 071 129-003 An error l og cannot be r egistered in XSCF when the following message is displayed on Solaris OS by the External I/O Expansion Uni t err or: SUNW-MSG-ID: SUN4-8000-4P, TYPE: Fault None available at this time.
SP ARC Enter prise M8000/M9000 Ser v ers Product No tes 15 Solaris Issues and W orkar ounds T ABLE 4 lists known issues and possible workar ounds. T ABLE 4 Specific Issues and W orkar ounds Concerning Solaris CR ID Description W orkaround 5076574 A PCIe error can lead to an invalid fault diagnosis on a large M9000/M8000 doma in.
16 SP ARC Ent erpr ise M8000/M9 000 Ser vers Product Notes for XCP V ersion 1060 • Februar y 2008 6449315 The Solaris cfgadm (1M) command does not unconfigur e a DVD drive from a domain on a SP ARC Enterprise M8000/M900 0 server . Disable the V olume Management Daemon ( vold ) before unconfi guring a DVD drive with the cfgadm (1M ) command.
SP ARC Enter prise M8000/M9000 Ser v ers Product No tes 17 6485555 On the SP ARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 servers, On-board Gigabit Ethernet NVRAM corrupt ion could occur due to a race condition. The window of opportunity for this race condition is very small.
18 SP ARC Ent erpr ise M8000/M9 000 Ser vers Product Notes for XCP V ersion 1060 • Februar y 2008 6502204 Unexpected error messages may be displayed on console on booting af ter CPU UE panic.
SP ARC Enter prise M8000/M9000 Ser v ers Product No tes 19 651 1374 Unexpected error messages may be displayed on console after changi ng the system configuration. Example: WARNING: Translation error source /LSB0/B0/0, PA 3c000000000, target /LSB0/B0/20000000 This message can be safely ignor e d.
20 SP ARC Ent erpr ise M8000/M9 000 Ser vers Product Notes for XCP V ersion 1060 • Februar y 2008 6522017 DR and ZFS may not be used in the same domain. Reduce the amount of kernel memory that ZFS can allocate by setting the zfs_arc_max parameter in the /etc/system file.
SP ARC Enter prise M8000/M9000 Ser v ers Product No tes 21 6532215 volfs or dscp service may fail when domain is booted. svc:/platform/sun4u/dscp:default: Method "/lib/svc/method/svc-dscp start" failed with exit status 95. svc:/system/filesystem/volfs:defaul t: Method or service exit timed out.
22 SP ARC Ent erpr ise M8000/M9 000 Ser vers Product Notes for XCP V ersion 1060 • Februar y 2008 6539084 There is a low probab ility of a domain panic during reboot when the Sun Quad GbE UTP x8 PCIe (X4447A-Z) card is present in a domain. There is no workaround.
SP ARC Enter prise M8000/M9000 Ser v ers Product No tes 23 6551356 The system panics when running hotplug ( cfgadm (1M)) to configur e a previously unconfigur ed card. The message "W ARNING: PCI Expansion ROM is not accessible" will be seen on the console shortly befor e the system panic.
24 SP ARC Ent erpr ise M8000/M9 000 Ser vers Product Notes for XCP V ersion 1060 • Februar y 2008 6564934 Performing a DR deleteboard (8) operati on on a board which includes Permanent Memory when u.
SP ARC Enter prise M8000/M9000 Ser v ers Product No tes 25 6589546 prtdiag (8) com mand does not show all I/O devices of the following car ds: • SG-XPCIE2FC-EM4 Sun StorageT ek Enterprise Class 4Gb .
26 SP ARC Ent erpr ise M8000/M9 000 Ser vers Product Notes for XCP V ersion 1060 • Februar y 2008 Identifying Permanent Memory in a T ar get Board 1. Log in to XSCF . 2. Execute the following command : The following example shows a display of the showdevices -d command where 0 is the domain_id .
SP ARC Enter prise M8000/M9000 Ser v ers Product No tes 27 Upgrading Fr om XCP104x to XCP 1050 or Later The following steps describe the case of upgrading to XCP1060.
28 SP ARC Ent erpr ise M8000/M9 000 Ser vers Product Notes for XCP V ersion 1060 • Februar y 2008 6. Collec t an XSCF sna pshot to arch ive system status prior to upgrade. 7. The BUI on XSCFU#0 can be used to upload the XCP 1060 upgrade image. 8. Update the firmware b y using the flashupdate (8) comm and.
SP ARC Enter prise M8000/M9000 Ser v ers Product No tes 29 13. W ait until XSC F firmware reach es the ready s tate. This can be con f irmed when the READY LEDs of XSCF_B#0 and XSCF_B#1 re main lit. 14. Lo g in on to XSCFU# 0 using a se rial connection or LAN connection.
30 SP ARC Ent erpr ise M8000/M9 000 Ser vers Product Notes for XCP V ersion 1060 • Februar y 2008 19. Conf irm that both the current and rese rve banks of XSCFU#1 display the updated XCP versions. If the Current and Reserve banks on XSCF#1 do not indicate XCP r evision 1060, contact a certified service engineer .
SP ARC Enter prise M8000/M9000 Ser v ers Product No tes 31 b. Confirm switching over between XSCFs using the followin g commands: Confirm XSCF#1 is standby , and XSCF#0 becomes active. Confirm new log is not r ecorded since you check ed on Step . Confirm a message XSCFU enter ed active state from standby stat e.
32 SP ARC Ent erpr ise M8000/M9 000 Ser vers Product Notes for XCP V ersion 1060 • Februar y 2008 Softwar e Documentation Updates This sect ion contains late-breaking software informat ion that became known after the documentation set was publ ished and corrections in the SP ARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 servers softwar e documentation.
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