Fujitsu Siemens Computers 820-3792-11 manual

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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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    Please Recycle Copyright 2007-2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc., 4150 Network Ci rcle, Santa Clara, California 95 054, U.S.A. and FUJITSU LIMITED, 1 -1 , Kamikodanaka 4- chome, Nakahara-k u, Kawasaki-shi, Kana gawa-ken 21 1 -8588, Japan. All rights reserved. Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Fujitsu Limi ted each own or control i ntellectual pr operty rights re[...]

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    Copyright 2007-2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc., 4150 Network Ci rcle, Santa Clara, California 95054, U.S.A. et FUJITSU LIMITED, 1-1, Kamikodanaka 4- chome, Nakahara-k u, Kawasaki-shi, Kana gawa-ken 21 1-858 8, Japon. T ous droits réservés. Entrée et r evue tecnical four nies par Fujitsu Limited sur des pa rties de ce matériel. Sun Microsystems, Inc[...]

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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 Notes 1 Supported Versions of Firmware and Softw are 1 Solaris Patch Info rmation 2 Known Issues 4 General Functionality Issues and Limitations 4 Notes f[...]

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    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 ent Memory in a T arget Board 26 Preparing to Upgrade to XCP 1 050 or Later 26 Upgrading From XCP104x to XCP 1050 or Later 27 Software Documentation [...]

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    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. T echnical Support If you have technical questions or issues that ar e not addressed in the SP ARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 servers do[...]

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    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. The documentation set is available for download from[...]

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    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. ■ Supported V er sions of Firmware and Soft ware ■ Solaris Patch Information ■ Known[...]

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    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 . Use the web br owser interfac[...]

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    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. Installation information and README files are included in the patch download.[...]

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    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 . ■ Domains using the ZFS file system can not use Dynamic[...]

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    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.   When you ope[...]

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    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. Notes for power -on after power-of f Please wait at least 30 seconds before turn ing on the system power that you tur ned o f f , b y u s i n [...]

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    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 . Updated glossary ter[...]

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    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 . Bottom V iews of the Components This is to correct the des[...]

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    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 air inlet Opening f or cables inlet and outlet[...]

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    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. T ABLE 3 XCP Issues and W orkarounds ID Description W orkaround RT IF 1 - 070[...]

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    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. None available at this time. RT IF 1 - 070824-005 On the[...]

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    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. Execute th e domain r eset one more ti me, or power off the domain and then powe[...]

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    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. When performing the addfru (8) and replacefru (8) comman ds, it is mandatory to run diagn[...]

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    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. RT IF 1 - 071 129-[...]

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    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. Create a fil e /etc[...]

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    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. To d [...]

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    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. None available at this time. This bug has been fixed in Solaris 10 8/07. 6496337 The "[...]

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    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. Example: SUNW-MSG-ID: FMD-8000-11, TYPE: Defect, VER: 1, SEVERITY: Minor EVENT-TIME: Tue Jan 9 20:45:08 JST 2007 PLATFORM: SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise, CSN: 20306[...]

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    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. 6515648 "Replumb Failed " error appears wh[...]

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    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. The following example sets the maximum size to 512 Mbytes. set zfs_arc_max =[...]

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    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. Killing contract 59. Restart th e service i [...]

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    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. This bug has been fixed in 125670-01 . 6539909 Do not use the fo llowing I/O cards f[...]

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    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. The following cards are affected by this defect: ?[...]

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    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 using the foll owing network c ards result s in broken connections: • X4447A-Z, PCI-e Quad-port Gigabit Ethernet Adapter UTP • X1027A-Z1, PCI-e Dua[...]

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    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 Dual- Port Fibre Channel PC I-E HBA • SG-XPCIE1FC-EM4 Sun StorageT ek Enterprise Class 4Gb Si ngle-Port Fibre Channel PC I-E HBA Use prtdiag -v for [...]

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    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 . The entry for column 4 perm mem MB indi cates the p[...]

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    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. Note – By upgrading to XCP 1050 or later , XSCFU_B#1 will start working. When your system is using RCI network, XS CFU_B#1 needs prop er configuration of cabling or termination to s[...]

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    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. Caution – flashupdate (8) will update o[...]

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    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. 15. Conf irm no abnormal ity occurred by using showlogs error -v and showstatu[...]

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    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 . Note – Setup RCI network if RCI[...]

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    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. Confirm a message "No failures [...]

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    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. The correcti[...]