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SP ARC ® Enter pr ise M8000/M9000 Ser v ers Product Notes F or XCP v ersion 1060 Manual Code C120-E487-0 1EN P ar t No. 82 0-3791-10 Nov ember 2007, Revision A.
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v Contents Preface vii Technical Support vii Software Resources vii Accessing Documentation viii Fujitsu Welcomes Your Comments ix SP ARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Product Notes 1 Supported Versi.
vi SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Produc t Notes for XCP Version 1060 • No vember 2007 XCP Issues and W orkar ounds 10 Solaris Issues and W orkarounds 14 Identifying Perman ent Memory in a T a.
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 • November 2007 Note – For latest patch information go to: Global Site http://www.fujitsu.com/global/support/software/sec urity/products -s/patch-info/ Japanese Sit e http://software.
Preface ix Fujitsu W elcomes Y our Comments If you have any comments or requests re gar di ng this manual, or if you find any unclear statements in the manual, please state your poi nts specifically , and forwar d it to a sales r epresentat ive or a certified servi ce engineer .
x SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP Version 1060 • November 2 007.
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 • November 2007 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 • November 2007 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 • November 2007 Har dware Installation and Service Issues This sect ion describes ha rdware specific issues an d workarounds. Specific Issues and W orkar ounds T ABLE 1 lists known hardwar e issues and possible workaroun d s.
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 • November 2007 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/M900 0 Ser vers Product Notes f o r XCP V ersion 1060 • Nov e mber 2007 Softwar e Issues This section des cribes software specific issues and 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 - 070824-005 On the XSCF W eb, when you changed the Refresh Interval value of th e Monitor Message Frame, the invalid pop-up "Confi rmation Domain mode" may appear . Ignore the pop-up and close the screen.
12 SP ARC Ent erpr ise M8000/M900 0 Ser vers Product Notes f o r XCP V ersion 1060 • Nov e mber 2007 RT IF 1 - 070914-006 When you set the XSCF user account name to the maximum 32 characters , you can log in, but then, when you execute the XSCF Shell or operate the XSCF W eb, "Permission denied" occurs.
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/M900 0 Ser vers Product Notes f o r XCP V ersion 1060 • Nov e mber 2007 Solaris Issues and W orkar ounds T ABLE 4 lists known issues and possible workar ounds.
SP ARC Enter prise M8000/M9000 Ser v ers Product No tes 15 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 unconf iguring a D VD drive wi th the cfgadm (1M ) command.
16 SP ARC Ent erpr ise M8000/M900 0 Ser vers Product Notes f o r XCP V ersion 1060 • Nov e mber 2007 6485555 On the SP ARC Enterprise M 8000/M9000 servers, On-board Gigabit Ethernet NVRA M corrupt ion could occur due to a race condition. The window of opportunity for this race condition is very small.
SP ARC Enter prise M8000/M9000 Ser v ers Product No tes 17 6502204 Unexpected error messages may be displayed on console on booting af ter CPU UE panic.
18 SP ARC Ent erpr ise M8000/M900 0 Ser vers Product Notes f o r XCP V ersion 1060 • Nov e mber 2007 651 1374 Unexpected error messages may be displayed on console after ch anging the system configuration. Example: WARNING: Translation error source /LSB0/B0/0, PA 3c000000000, target /LSB0/B0/20000000 This message can be safely igno red.
SP ARC Enter prise M8000/M9000 Ser v ers Product No tes 19 6522017 DR and ZFS may not be used in the same domain. Reduce the amount of kernel m emory that ZFS can allocate by setting the zfs_arc_max parameter in the /etc/system file. The following example set s the maximum size to 512 Mbytes.
20 SP ARC Ent erpr ise M8000/M900 0 Ser vers Product Notes f o r XCP V ersion 1060 • Nov e mber 2007 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.
SP ARC Enter prise M8000/M9000 Ser v ers Product No tes 21 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. This bug has been fixed in 125670-01.
22 SP ARC Ent erpr ise M8000/M900 0 Ser vers Product Notes f o r XCP V ersion 1060 • Nov e mber 2007 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.
SP ARC Enter prise M8000/M9000 Ser v ers Product No tes 23 6564934 Performing a DR deleteboard (8) operati on on a board which includes Permanent Memory when using the foll owing network cards result .
24 SP ARC Ent erpr ise M8000/M900 0 Ser vers Product Notes f o r XCP V ersion 1060 • Nov e mber 2007 6589546 prtdiag (8) com mand does not show all I/O devices of the following car ds: • SG-XP CIE.
SP ARC Enter prise M8000/M9000 Ser v ers Product No tes 25 Identifying Permanent Memory in a T ar get Board 1. Log in to XSC F . 2. Execute the following command: The following example sh ows a display of the showdevices -d command wher e 0 is the domain_id .
26 SP ARC Ent erpr ise M8000/M900 0 Ser vers Product Notes f o r XCP V ersion 1060 • Nov e mber 2007 Upgrading Fr om XCP104x to XCP 1050 or Later The following steps describe the case of upgrading to XCP1060. Note – By upgrading to XCP 1050 or later , XSCFU_B#1 will start working.
SP ARC Enter prise M8000/M9000 Ser v ers Product No tes 27 6. Collec t an XSCF sna pshot to arc h 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 by using the flashupdate (8) command.
28 SP ARC Ent erpr ise M8000/M900 0 Ser vers Product Notes f o r XCP V ersion 1060 • Nov e mber 2007 13. W ait until XSCF firmware reaches the ready st ate. This can be confirmed when the READY LEDs of XSCF_B#0 and XSCF_B#1 r emain lit. 14. Log i n on to XSCFU# 0 using a se rial connection or LAN connection.
SP ARC Enter prise M8000/M9000 Ser v ers Product No tes 29 19. Confirm that bot h 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 your authorized service r epresentative.
30 SP ARC Ent erpr ise M8000/M900 0 Ser vers Product Notes f o r XCP V ersion 1060 • Nov e mber 2007 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 recorded since you checked on Step 16 .
SP ARC Enter prise M8000/M9000 Ser v ers Product No tes 31 Softwar e Documentation Updates This section contains la te-breaking software information that became k nown after the documentation set was publ ished and corrections in the SP ARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 servers softwar e documentation.
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