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1. Chapter 2 Information About Hardware 27 FIGURE 2 9 M9000 Grounding Port Connection Locations for the Wrist Strap Clip and the Antistatic Conductive Mat Rear View A CONNECT NNE WRISTSTRAP HERE WRISTSTRAP HERE External Dimensions and Weights The table found in Section 1 2 1 2 of the Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Site Planning Guide will be updated with the information in TABLE 2 3 below The table lists the external dimensions and weights of the Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 server cabinet TABLE 2 3 Installation Specifications External Dimensions and Weights External dimensions mm inch Name Width Depth Height Weight kg SPARC Enterprise M8000 server 750 29 5 1260 49 6 1800 70 9 700 M8000 Power Cabinet 1054 41 5 1260 49 6 1800 70 9 1020 SPARC Enterprise M9000 server 850 33 5 1260 49 6 1800 70 9 940 base cabinet M9000 base cabinet Power 1154 45 4 1260 49 6 1800 70 9 1290 Cabinet 28 Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP 1092 May 2010 TABLE 2 3 Installation Specifications External Dimensions and Weights Continued External dimensions mm inch Name Width Depth Height Weight kg M9000 base cabinet expansion 1674 65 9 126
2. TABLE 3 7 Solaris OS Issues and Workarounds Fixed in Solaris 10 8 07 3 of 4 CR ID Description Workaround 6502204 Unexpected error messages may be displayed If you see unexpected messages use the on console on booting after CPU UE panic showdomainstatus 8 command to check system Example status on XSCF 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 2030636002 HOSTNAME P2 DC1 16 d0 6502750 Inserted or removed hotplugged PCI card may There is no workaround not output notification message 6508432 A large number of spurious PCIe correctable To mask these errors add the following entry to errors can be recorded in the FMA error log etc system and reboot the system set pcie pcie aer_ ce mask 0x2001 6508434 The domain may panic when an additional Do not insert a different type of PCI X card on the PCI X card is installed or a PCI X card is same PCI slot by using PCI hot plug replaced using PCI hot plug 6510861 When using the PCIe Dual Port Ultra320 SCSI Add the following entry to etc system to controller card SG X PCIE2SCSIU320Z a prevent the problem PCIe correctable error causes a Solaris panic set pcie pcie aer ce mask 0x31c1 6520990 When a domain reboots SCF might not be able Increase the DR timeout period by setting the to service other domains that share the same following statement in etc system and reboot ph
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4. Hardware Documentation Updates on page 19 Hardware Issues and Workarounds Booting Multiple Systems From a Single J4200 JBOD Storage Array Sun Storage J4200 SAS JBOD arrays have six general purpose SAS connectors With FW version 3A32 or higher each of them can be connected to separate SAS initiators therefore up to six systems can be connected to the array Each system can use a different disk on the array as its boot device J4200 arrays have 12 disks so each boot device can be mirrored for higher reliability J4200 arrays can be configured into multiple zones to provide a more secure environment For related information see Sun StorageTek Common Array Manager Software documentation at http docs sun com app docs prod stor arrmgr hic See especially m Sun StorageTek Common Array Manager Software Release Notes 6 4 1 m Sun StorageTek Common Array Manager User Guide for Open Systems 18 DVD Drives and cfgadm The Solaris c gadm 1M command does not always unconfigure a DVD drive from a domain on SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 servers Disable the Volume Management Daemon vold before unconfiguring a DVD drive with the cfgadm 1M command To disable vold stop the daemon by issuing the command etc init d volmgt stop After the device has been removed or inserted restart the daemon by issuing the command etc init d volmgt start Sun Crypto Accelerator 6000 Cards If you are not using the correct version of the Sun Cr
5. See Solaris Patch Requirements on page 8 Check http sunsolve sun com for the latest patch revision Note As for all releases installation of the SunAlert Patch Cluster is recommended Also note that the Solaris 10 10 09 Patch Bundle is also known as MU8 Many web browsers support the XSCF Web The browsers in TABLE 1 2 have demonstrated compatibility with the XSCF Web through testing TABLE 1 2 Tested Web Browser Versions Web Browser Application Version Firefox 2 0 and 3 0 Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 0 7 0 and 8 0 Chapter 1 Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP 1092 7 Solaris Patch Requirements This section lists mandatory patches patch bundles and SunAlert patch clusters for the M8000 M9000 servers Always refer to the patch README for information about patch requirements and special installation instructions The patch identifiers listed in this section represent the minimum level of the patches that must be installed The two digit suffix represents the minimum revision level of the patch Check http sunsolve sun com for the latest patch revision Apply patches in the order listed Solaris 10 5 09 with SPARC64 VII 2 88 GHz Processors The Solaris 10 10 09 Patch Bundle is required and the SunAlert Patch Cluster is recommended See http sunsolve sun com show do target patches patch access Solaris 10 10 08 with SPARC64 VII 2 88 GHz Processors Th
6. AUTO RESPONSE The module has been disabled Events destined for the module will be saved for manual diagnosis IMPACT Automated diagnosis and response for subsequent events associated with this module will not occur REC ACTION Use fmdump v u lt EVENT ID gt to locate the module Use fmadm reset lt module gt to reset the module CSN 6668237 After DIMMs are replaced the corresponding DIMM faults are not cleared on the domain 6674266 and 6611966 DR deleteboard 8 and moveboard 8 operations might fail Example for messages on domain drmach WARNING Device driver failure pci dcs lt xxxx gt config_change_state Hardware specific failure unconfigure SBl Device driver failure pci If fmd service fails issue the following command on the domain to recover svcadm clear fmd Then restart cpumem diagnosis fmadm restart cpumem diagnosis Use the following commands fmadm repair fmri uuid fmadm rotate Try DR operations again 38 Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP 1092 May 2010 TABLE 3 2 Solaris OS Issues and Workarounds for All Supported Releases 4 of 4 CR ID Description Workaround 6745410 Boot program ignores the Kadb option which Use kmdb instead of kadb causes the system not to boot 6794630 An attempt to use the GUI to install Solaris in Use the command line interface to install a domain larger than 2TB might fa
7. F 70 F to 74 F Packed 20 C to 60 C 4 F to 140 F Relative 20 RH to 80 RH to 93 RH 45 RH to 50 RH humidity Altitude 3 000 m 10 000 ft 12 000 m 40 000 ft restrictiont Temperature 5 C to 32 C 41 F to 89 6 F at an conditions installation altitude ranging from 0 to less than 1500 m 4921 feet above sea level 5 C to 30 C 41 F to 86 F at an installation altitude ranging from 1500 m 4921 feet to less than 2000 m 6562 feet above sea level 5 C to 28 C 41 F to 82 4 F at an installation altitude ranging from 2000 m 6562 feet to less than 2500 m 8202 feet above sea level 5 C to 26 C 41 F to 78 8 F at an installation altitude ranging from 2500 m 8202 feet to 3000 m 9843 feet above sea level There is no condensation regardless of the temperature and humidity All altitudes are above sea level 20 Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP 1092 May 2010 Antistatic Precautions Caution Before handling FRUs be sure to connect an antistatic wrist strap clip and an antistatic conductive mat to a cabinet grounding port and attach the band of the wrist strap to one of your wrists Remove static electricity on the FRUs before installation by placing the FRUs on a grounded antistatic conductive mat while wearing the wrist strap Failure to do so might result in serious damage Be sure to observe the precautions when handling the FRUs described in the be
8. NICs might panic under high load conditions 6689757 Sun Dual 10 GigE Fiber XFP Low Profile Check and make sure that both XFP optical Adapter XGF with a single or improperly installed XFP optical transceivers might cause the following error to show on the console The XFP optical transceiver is broken or missing transceivers are firmly seated in the housing Do not mix INTEL and Sun XFP optical transceivers in the same Adapter Do NOT plumb a port with the ifconfig command if the port does not contain an XFP optical transceiver or it contains one but the transceiver is not in use 40 Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP 1092 May 2010 TABLE 3 5 Solaris Issues Fixed in Solaris 10 10 08 TABLE 3 5 lists issues that have been fixed in the Solaris 10 10 08 OS You might encounter them in earlier releases Solaris OS Issues and Workarounds Fixed in Solaris 10 10 08 1 of 3 CR ID Description Workaround 6511374 6533686 6535018 6556742 Memory translation warning messages might appear during boot if memory banks were disabled due to excessive errors When XSCF is low on system resources DR deleteboard or moveboard operations that relocate permanent memory might fail with one or more of these errors SCF busy DR parallel copy timeout This applies only to Quad XSB configured System Boards hosting multiple domains In Solaris domains that include SPARC64 VII processo
9. and Workarounds Fixed in Solaris 10 5 08 1 of 4 CR ID Description Workaround 5076574 A PCle error can lead to an invalid fault Create a file etc fm fmd fmd conf containing diagnosis on a large M8000 M9000 domain the following lines setprop client buflim 40m setprop client memlim 40m 6348554 Using the cfgadm c disconnect Do not perform cfgadm c disconnect command on the following cards might hang operation on the affected cards the command e SG XPCIE2FC QF4 Sun StorageTek Enterprise Class 4 Gigabit Dual Port Fiber Channel PCI E HBA e SG XPCIE1FC QF4 Sun StorageTek Enterprise Class 4 Gigabit Single Port Fiber Channel PCI E HBA e SG XPCI2FC OF4 Sun StorageTek Enterprise Class 4 Gigabit Dual Port Fiber Channel PCI X HBA e SG XPCI1FC QF4 Sun StorageTek Enterprise Class 4 Gigabit Single Port Fiber Channel PCI X HBA 6402328 Customers using more than six IOUA Base Limit the maximum number of IOUAs in a single 1 0 Card cards in a single domain might domain to 6 experience panic during a period of high I O stress 6472153 If you create a Solaris Flash archive on a ust after installing Solaris OS from a Solaris Flash sun4u server other than an archive telnet into the M4000 M5000 M8000 M9000 M4000 M5000 M8000 M9000 server then server to reset the console s TTY flags as follows install it on one of these servers the console s sttydefs r console TTY flags will not be set correctly This can sttydefs a console i 9600
10. cabinet 71532 cooling SPARC Enterprise M9000 42912 205 Underfloor Forced air 69 server base cabinet 142956 cooling expansion cabinet Rack mountable Dual Power t t Overfloor underfloor Forced air t Feed cooling Chapter 2 Information About Hardware 29 TABLE 2 4 Specifications Cooling and Air Conditioning Requirements Continued Heat Exhaust Noise dissipation airflow Air conditioning level Name kJ h cmh m3 h Cooling method type dBA Power Cabinet SPARC at Overfloor underfloor Forced air t Enterprise M8000 server cooling Power Cabinet for SPARC t t Overfloor underfloor Forced air ET Enterprise M9000 server base cooling cabinet Power Cabinet for SPARC t t Underfloor Forced air t Enterprise M9000 server base cooling cabinet expansion cabinet Heat dissipation varies by power consumption Determine the power consumption based on the actual system configuration and then confirm the right value The heat dissipation exhaust airflow and acoustic noise value of the Power Cabinet is included in the value for the SPARC Enterprise M8000 server or SPARC Enterprise M9000 server Atan installation altitude ranging from 0 to less than 400 m 1312 feet above sea level you can select overfloor cooling as the cooling method of the server Electrical Specifications Section 3 3 of the Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Site Planning Guide will be updated with the following tables TABL
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12. search path c addsearch c delsearch Along with the addition of DNS search path related descriptions for DNS search path were added to applynetwork 8 sethostname 8 and shownameserver 8 For details see the online versions of these man pages as of the XCP 1091 release setnetwork 8 Modified m in OPTIONS and added to OPERANDS You cannot specify the loopback address 127 0 0 0 8 the network address a broadcast address or a class D or E 224 0 0 0 255 255 255 255 address Also added information about xscf 0 lan 0 and xscf 0 lan 1 setntp 8 e Added to OPERANDS You cannot specify the loopback address 127 0 0 0 8 the network address or a broadcast address e Added to OPTIONS A new option for setting the local clock of XSCF m localaddr value Along with the addition of clock address related descriptions for local addresses will be added to showntp 8 For details see the online version of the setntp 8 and showntp 8 man pages setpacketfilters 8 This new man page was added in the XCP 1092 release setpasswordpolicy 8 Modified value ranges for clarity Most are 1 999999999 52 Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP 1092 May 2010 TABLE 3 8 XSCF Reference Manual man page Change setroute 8 e Added to OPTIONS You cannot specify the loopback address 127 0 0 0 8 the network address or a broadcast address e Changed in OPTIONS Old text If you specified 0 0 0 0
13. the same parameters For more information see the set ldapss1 8 and showldapss1 8 man pages The proxyuser System Account To support Active Directory and LDAP SSL the XCP 1091 release added a new system account named proxyuser Before using the Active Directory or LDAP SSL features check to ensure that no user account of that name already exists If one does use the deleteuser 8 command to remove it then reset XSCF before using these features Airflow Indicator The Airflow indicator added in XCP 1090 confirms the amount of airflow emitted while the SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 servers are up and running The Airflow indicator value indicates the volume of air exhausted from the server The values do not include the peripheral devices To display the amount of exhaust air use the showenvironment air command Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP 1092 May 2010 XSCF gt showenvironment air Air Flow 5810CMH Note Airflow monitoring measurement values are for reference only For details of the showenvironment 8 command refer to the man page You can also obtain the exhaust air data using the SNMP agent function To obtain the data of exhaust air using the SNMP agent function install the latest XSCF extension MIB definition file to the SNMP manager For details on the XSCF extension MIB definition file see the SPARC Enterprise M3000 M4000 M5000 M8000 M9000 Servers XSCF User s G
14. 0 49 6 1800 70 9 1880t cabinet M9000 base cabinet expansion 2282 89 8 1260 49 6 1800 70 9 2580 cabinet Power Cabinet Rack mountable Dual Power Feed 489 19 3 1003 39 5 278 10 9 75 6U Power Cabinet 317 12 5 1244 49 0 1800 70 9 350 The weights listed in this table show a fully populated server all CMU IOU PCI and DIMM slots are mounted The weights do not include the weight of any optional hardware such as the External I O Expansion Unit When combining a base cabinet and an expansion cabinet the width of each cabinet is 837 mm including the exterior side panels The Rack mountable Dual Power Feed can only be mounted on the equipment rack The width of a Power Cabinet includes the exterior side panel Cooling Air Conditioning Requirements The Specifications Cooling and Air Conditioning Requirements table found in Section 3 2 1 of the Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Site Planning Guide will be updated with the information in TABLE 2 4 below The table lists the cooling and air conditioning requirements for each system component TABLE 2 4 Specifications Cooling and Air Conditioning Requirements Heat Exhaust Noise dissipation airflow Air conditioning level Name kJ h cmh m3 h Cooling method type dBA SPARC Enterprise M8000 13968 94 Overfloor underfloor Forced air 67 server 37764 cooling SPARC Enterprise M9000 22320 102 Overfloor underfloor Forced air 68 server base
15. 24 PDT 2007 PLATFORM SUNW SPARC Enterprise CSN BE80601007 HOSTNAME sparc 6545143 There is a low probability that a system panic There is no workaround can occur during trap processing of a TLB miss for a user stack address The problem can occur if the user stack is unmapped concurrently with the user process executing a flush windows trap ta 3 The panic message will contain the following string bad kernel MMU trap at TL 2 6545685 If the system has detected Correctable Increase the memory patrol timeout values used via MemoryErrors CE at power on self test the following setting in etc system and reboot the POST the domains might incorrectly system degrade 4 or 8 DIMMs set mc opl mc_max_rewrite_loop 20000 6546188 The system panics when running hot plug There is no workaround cfgadm and DR operations addboard and deleteboard on the following cards e X4447A Z PCI e Quad port Gigabit Ethernet Adapter UTP e X1027A Z1 PCI e Dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber XFP Low profile Adapter Chapter 3 Information About Software 45 TABLE 3 CR ID 6 Solaris OS Issues and Workarounds Fixed in Solaris 10 5 08 3 of 4 Description Workaround 6551356 6559504 6563785 6564934 6568417 The system panics when running hot plug cfgadm to configure a previously unconfigured card The message WARNING PCI Expansion ROM is not accessible will be seen on the console shortly before the system panic
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17. DR to remove the system board that hosts numbered CPU might cause the domain to the CPU with the lowest CPU ID Use the Solaris panic prtdiag command to identify the CPU with the lowest CPU ID Solaris Issues Fixed in Solaris 10 8 07 TABLE 3 7 lists issues that have been fixed in the Solaris 10 8 07 OS You might encounter them in earlier releases TABLE 3 7 Solaris OS Issues and Workarounds Fixed in Solaris 10 8 07 1 of 4 CR ID Description Workaround 6303418 M9000 server with a single domain and 11 or Do not exceed 170 CPU threads more fully populated system boards might hang under heavy stress Limit the number of CPU threads to one per CPU core by using the Solaris psradm command to disable the excess CPU threads For example disable all odd numbered CPU threads 6416224 System performance can degrade using a Use multiple NIC cards to split network single NIC card with more than 5 000 connections connections Chapter 3 Information About Software 47 TABLE 3 7 Solaris OS Issues and Workarounds Fixed in Solaris 10 8 07 2 of 4 CR ID Description Workaround 6441349 I O error can hang the system There is no workaround 6485555 On board Gigabit Ethernet NVRAM There is no workaround corruption could occur due to a race condition The window of opportunity for this race condition is very small 6496337 The cpumem diagnosis module may fail to If the problem has already occurred use this load after unco
18. Dimensions and Weights The footnote regarding weight will be updated See External Dimensions and Weights on page 28 Cooling Air Conditioning Requirements The Specifications Cooling and Air Conditioning Requirements table will be updated See Cooling Air Conditioning Requirements on page 29 The values of power consumption and apparent power will be corrected in the following tables TABLE 3 5 Specifications Single Phase Power Requirements TABLE 3 7 Specifications Three Phase Delta Power Requirements TABLE 3 8 Specifications Three Phase Star Power Requirements See Electrical Specifications on page 30 CPU Types and Server Maximum Power Consumption The CPU Types and Server Maximum Power Consumption information will be updated See CPU Types and Server Maximum Power Consumption on page 31 TABLE 1 3 Power Consumption Examples The Power Consumption Examples table will be updated See Electrical Specifications on page 33 Chapter 2 Information About Hardware 19 Ambient Environmental Requirements The table found in Section 2 2 1 of the Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Overview Guide will be updated with the information in TABLE 2 2 below TABLE 2 2 Ambient Environmental Requirements Operating Range Non Operating Range Optimum Ambient 5 C to 32 C Unpacked 21 C to 23 C temperature 41 F to 89 6 F 0 C to 50 C 32 F to 122
19. E 2 5 Specifications Single Phase Power Requirements NAME Power consumption kW Apparent power kVA SPARC Enterprise M8000 server 3 88 10 49 4 11 11 12 SPARC Enterprise M9000 server base cabinet 6 20 19 87 6 58 21 07 SPARC Enterprise M9000 server 11 92 39 72 12 64 42 13 base cabinet expansion cabinet The values for maximum power consumption and apparent power vary by the type of CPU mounted To plan the installation of a serv er equipped with different types of CPU use the CPU of larger power consumption as a basis For the types of CPU see Section 3 3 6 CPU Types and Server Maximum Power Consumption of the Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Site Planning Guide 30 Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP 1092 May 2010 TABLE 2 6 Specifications Three Phase Delta Power Requirements NAME Power consumption kW Apparent power kVA SPARC Enterprise M8000 server Power Cabinet 3 88 10 49 SPARC Enterprise M9000 server 6 20 19 87 base cabinet Power Cabinet SPARC Enterprise 9000 server 11 92 39 72 base cabinet expansion cabinet Power Cabinet 4 11 11 12 6 58 21 07 12 64 42 13 The values for maximum power consumption and apparent power vary by the type of CPU mounted To plan the installation of a serv er equipped with different types of CPU use the CPU of larger power consumption as a basis For the types of CPU see Section 3 3 6 CPU Types and Server Ma
20. L applynetwork 8 Modified for clarity ioxadm 8 Modified to include new information password 8 Modified value ranges for clarity Most are 1 999999999 setdscp 8 Added the following text The specified netmask must be a subset of the default netmask based on network class setdualpowerfeed 8 Modified to include the statement The dual power feed mode cannot be used with 100V power on M4000 M5000 servers sethostname 8 Added information in EXTENDED DESCRIPTION Chapter 3 Information About Software 51 TABLE 3 8 XSCF Reference Manual man page Change sethttps 8 Added to EXTENDED DESCRIPTION The size of the file to be generated by sethttps 8 grows with the total character count typed in the operands for configuring self certification authority creating a self signed web server certificate and creating a CSR If the file to be generated is too large for XSCE the command fails with an error If you see this error reduce the number of characters in the operands and execute the sethttps 8 command again setldap 8 Added the following information An XSCF user account user name cannot match an LDAP user name and an XSCF user account number UID cannot match an LDAP UID number setnameserver 8 e Added to OPERANDS You cannot specify the loopback address 127 0 0 0 8 the network address or a broadcast address e Added to OPTIONS New options for registering a specified domain name to the DNS
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22. MPLICITE RELATIVE A LA QUALITE MARCHANDE A L APTITUDE A UNE UTILISATION PARTICULIERE OU A L ABSENCE DE CONTREFACON Contents Preface ix Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP 1092 1 What s New in XCP 1090 1091 and 1092 1 Active Directory and LDAP SSL 2 Configuring XSCF for Active Directory Support 3 Configuring XSCF for LDAP SSL Support 4 The proxyuser System Account 4 Airflow Indicator 4 Upgrading and Downgrading XCP 5 Upgrading to XCP 1090 1091 or XCP 1092 5 Upgrading From a Version Earlier Than XCP 1050 5 Domain Restart Required After Certain Type of XCP Upgrade 6 Downgrading XCP Firmware 6 Minimum Required Firmware Operating Systems and Browsers 7 Solaris Patch Requirements 8 Solaris 10 5 09 with SPARC64 VII 2 88 GHz Processors 8 Solaris 10 10 08 with SPARC64 VII 2 88 GHz Processors 8 Solaris 10 5 08 with SPARC64 VII 2 88 GHz Processors 8 Solaris 10 5 08 with SPARC64 VII 2 52 GHz Processors SPARC64 VI Processors or Both 9 Solaris 10 8 07 with SPARC64 VII 2 88 GHz Processors 9 Solaris 10 8 07 with SPARC64 VII 2 52 GHz Processors 9 Solaris 10 8 07 with SPARC64 VI Processors 10 Solaris 1011 06 10 Obtaining Solaris Patches 11 Patches for Emulex PCI Express PCIe Cards 11 Patches for QLogic PCIe Cards 12 Functionality Issues and Limitations 12 Limitations for SPARC64 VII Processors 12 General Functionality Issues and Limitations 12 Additional Information and Procedures 14 Logging In to the System 14 B
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24. The following cards are affected by this defect e X4447A Z PCI e Quad port Gigabit Ethernet Adapter UTP e X1027A Z1 PCI e Dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber XFP Low profile Adapter Messages of the form nxge NOTICE nxge_ipp_eccue_valid_check rd_ptr nnn wr_ptr nnn will be observed on the console with the following cards e X4447A Z PCI e Quad port Gigabit Ethernet Adapter UTP e X1027A Z1 PCI e Dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber XFP Low profile Adapter Hot plug operation with the following cards might fail if a card is disconnected and then immediately reconnected e SG XPCIE2SCSIU320Z Sun StorageTek PCI E Dual Port Ultra320 SCSI HBA e SGXPCI2SCSILM320 Z Sun StorageTek PCI Dual Port Ultra320 SCSI HBA Performing a DR deleteboard operation on a board which includes Permanent Memory when using the following network cards results in broken connections e X4447A Z PCI e Quad port Gigabit Ethernet Adapter UTP e X1027A Z1 PCI e Dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber XFP Low profile Adapter After a successful CPU DR deleteboard operation the system panics when the following network interfaces are in use e X4447A Z PCI e Quad port Gigabit Ethernet Adapter UTP e X1027A Z1 PCI e Dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber XFP Low profile Adapter Use cfgadm c disconnect to completely remove the card After waiting at least 10 seconds the card might be configured back into the domain using the cfgadm c configure command Th
25. are listed 1 118833 36 Reboot your domain before proceeding 125100 10 See the patch README file for a list of other patch requirements 123839 07 2 3 4 120068 03 5 125424 01 6 118918 24 7 120222 21 8 125127 01 Reboot your domain before proceeding 9 125670 02 10 125166 05 10 Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP 1092 May 2010 Obtaining Solaris Patches The Sunsm Connection Update Manager can be used to reinstall the patches if necessary or to update the system with the latest set of mandatory patches For more information about the Sun Connection Update Manager refer to the Sun Update Connection System Administration Guide at http docs sun com app docs prod updconn sys Or visit http wikis sun com display SunConnection Update Manager Installation information and README files are included in the patch downloads Two options are available to register your system and to use the Sun Connection Update Manager to obtain the latest Solaris OS patches m Use the Update Manager GUI to obtain patches For more information refer to the Sun Update Connection documentation at the links mentioned previously m Use the smpatch 1M command to obtain patches For more information refer to the smpatch 1M man page or the reference manual collection for your version of Solaris Patches for Emulex PCI Express PCIe Cards The following Emulex cards require drivers sup
26. aution Do not touch the CMU IOU or the dummy unit without wearing an antistatic wrist strap Failure to do so might result in serious damage to operating domains Removing Static Electricity on a CMU and an IOU a Prior to mounting a new CMU or IOU place it on the grounded antistatic conductive mat b Touch the metallic chassis for 5 or more seconds with your bare hand wearing the antistatic wrist strap See FIGURE 2 2 or FIGURE 2 3 You cannot remove static electricity by touching the label Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP 1092 May 2010 FIGURE 2 2 Metallic Chassis CMU Touch for 5 or more seconds FIGURE 2 3 Metallic Chassis IOU Touch for 5 or more seconds Chapter 2 Information About Hardware 23 c Touch each of the designated points on the guide blocks for 5 or more seconds with your bare hand wearing the antistatic wrist strap See FIGURE 2 4 or FIGURE 2 5 FIGURE 2 4 Guide Blocks CMU Guide block FIGURE 2 5 Guide Blocks IOU Touch 5 or more seconds 24 Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP 1092 May 2010 Grounding Port Connection Locations This section provides the information of the grounding port connect
27. blueprints 0701 NTP pdf m You cannot use the following user account names as they are reserved for system use adm admin apache bin daemon default ldap nobody ntp operator proxyuser root rpc rpcuser and sshd 12 Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP 1092 May 2010 An XSCF user account user name cannot match an LDAP user name and an XSCE user account number UID cannot match an LDAP UID number When you use the external power control interface of the external power controller the following notification signals are not supported m The OS panic or the server hardware error signal CPUN RTINU a The server hardware error signal power fail temperature error and fan error When you import XCP or update the firmware using the XSCF you might see Web session ID errors displayed on the web browser When you specify the timeout period as over 30 minutes in the Autologout setting Internal Server Errors might be displayed To reconnect to the XSCF Web close the current browser and open the new browser For this XCP release the XSCF browser user interface XSCF Web does not support the External I O Expansion Unit Manager feature Before using the XSCF Web disable pop up blocking and remove any plug ins such as the search tool installed with the browser XSCF LAN is compliant with auto negotiation Set the network device which connects with XSCF LAN to the auto negotiation mode Otherwise when yo
28. dating XCP From External Media or Updating XCP from the Network After updating confirm the version 54 Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP 1092 May 2010
29. e Solaris 10 10 09 Patch Bundle is required and the SunAlert Patch Cluster is recommended See http sunsolve sun com show do target patches patch access Solaris 10 5 08 with SPARC64 VII 2 88 GHz Processors The Solaris 10 10 09 Patch Bundle is required and and the SunAlert Patch Cluster is recommended See http sunsolve sun com show do target patches patch access Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP 1092 May 2010 Solaris 10 5 08 with SPARC64 VII 2 52 GHz Processors SPARC64 VI Processors or Both Patch 137137 09 SunOS 5 10 kernel patch Solaris 10 8 07 with SPARC64 VII 2 88 GHz Processors m The Solaris 10 10 09 Patch Bundle required and the SunAlert Patch Cluster recommended See http sunsolve sun com show do target patches patch access m In addition you cannot do a fresh install of the Solaris 10 8 07 OS on a domain that contains SPARC64 VII processors The following two workarounds apply m Create a fully patched image then use Jumpstart m Start the OS install on a domain that contains only SPARC64 VI processors add the required patches then add the SPARC64 VII processors to the domain Note See http sunsolve sun com search document do assetkey 1 62 252447 1 Solaris 10 8 07 with SPARC64 VII 2 52 GHz Processors The following patches are required for Solaris 10 8 07 OS only on servers containing SPARC64 VII 2 52 GHz processors Install them in the order li
30. e X4447A Z PCI e Quad port Gigabit Ethernet Adapter UTP e X1027A Z1 PCI e Dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber XFP Low profile Adapter 6614737 The DR deleteboard 8 and moveboard 8 Avoid performing DR operations if any of the operations might hang if any of the following following conditions exist conditions exist Degraded memory To determine whether the A DIMM has been degraded system contains degraded memory use the The domain contains system boards with XSCF command showstatus different memory size e Differing memory sizes To determine whether the domain contains system boards with different memory sizes display the list of memory sizes using the XSCF command showdevices or the prtdiag command on the domain If a DR command hangs reboot the domain to recover 6619224 For Solaris domains that include SPARC 64 VIT For Solaris domains that include SPARC 64 VII processors a single domain of 256 threads or processors do not exceed a domain size of 256 more might hang for an extended period of virtual processors in a single Solaris domain time under certain unusual situations Upon This means a maximum of 32 CPUs in a single recovery the uptime command will show domain configuration maximum configuration extremely high load averages for an M8000 server 6632549 fmd service on domain might fail to go into Issue the following command on the domain maintenance mode after DR operations svcadm clear fmd 6660197 DR might cause t
31. eletefru 8 command and then retry the addfru 8 command Chapter 1 Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP 1092 13 m The setsnmp 8 and showsnmp 8 commands do not notify the user of authorization failure Upon such failure confirm that the SNMP trap host is working and re execute the command using the correct user name Additional Information and Procedures This section describes additional issues and limitations known at the time of this release Logging In to the System In addition to the standard default login M3000 M4000 M5000 M8000 M9000 servers are delivered with a temporary login called admin to enable remote initial login through a serial port The admin user privileges are fixed to useradm and cannot be changed You cannot log in as temporary admin using the standard UNIX user name and password authentication or SSH public key authentication The temporary admin account has no password and one cannot be added for it The temporary admin account is disabled after someone logs in as the default user or after someone logged in as temporary admin has successfully added the first user with valid password and privileges If before the default login is used you cannot log in as temporary admin you can determine if someone else has done so by executing the showuser 1 command Booting From a WAN Boot Server The WAN boot installation method enables you to boot and install software over a wide area n
32. ese messages can be safely ignored After disconnecting a card wait for a few seconds before re connecting Reconfigure the affected network interfaces after the completion of the DR operation For basic network configuration procedures refer to the ifconfig man page for more information Add the following line to etc system and reboot the system set ip ip_soft_rings_cnt 0 46 Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP 1092 May 2010 TABLE 3 6 Solaris OS Issues and Workarounds Fixed in Solaris 10 5 08 4 of 4 CR ID Description Workaround 6571370 Use of the following cards have been Add the following line in etc system and reboot observed to cause data corruption in stress the system test under laboratory conditions set nxge nxge rx _threshold hi 0 e X4447A Z PCI e Quad port Gigabit Ethernet Adapter UTP e X1027A ZI PCI e Dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber XFP Low profile Adapter 6584984 The busstat 1M command with w option There is no workaround Do not use busstat 1M might cause M8000 M9000 server domains command with w option on pemu_p to reboot 6589546 prtdiag does not show all IO devices of Useprtdiag v for full output the following cards SG XPCIE2FC EM4 Sun StorageTek Enterprise Class 4 Gigabit Dual Port Fiber Channel PCI E HBA e SG XPCIE1FC EM4 Sun StorageTek Enterprise Class 4 Gigabit Single Port Fiber Channel PCI E HBA 6663570 DR operations involving the lowest Do not use
33. etwork WAN by using HTTP To support booting the M8000 M9000 servers from a WAN boot server you must have the appropriate wanboot executable installed and OpenBoot version 4 24 10 or above to provide the needed hardware support For information about WAN boot servers refer to the Solaris 10 Installation Guide Network Based Installations for the version of Solaris 10 OS that you are using You can find Solaris 10 OS documentation here http docs sun com app docs prod solaris 10 If you do not upgrade the wanboot executable the server will panic with messages similar to the following 14 Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP 1092 May 2010 krtld load exec fail to expand cpu SCPU krtld error during initial load link phase panic boot exitto64 returned from client program Sun Java Enterprise System The Sun Java Enterprise System is a comprehensive set of software and life cycle services that make the most of your software investment The software and installation instructions can be found at the following web address http www sun com software javaenterprisesystem index jsp The software might not include patches that are mandatory for your server After installing the software refer to Solaris Patch Requirements on page 8 for information about checking for and installing required patches For an overview and documentation go to http www sun com service javaes index
34. ext The power consumption information is displayed on the M3000 server Added to EXAMPLES A new example of a M3000 server with DC power added PCI card information and added M option Added M option new information for Status and Detail log Power log in EXTENDED DESCRIPTION and other references to Pow Fail Recov This new man page was added in the XCP 1092 release Chapter 3 Information About Software 53 SPARC Enterprise M3000 M4000 M5000 M8000 M9000 Servers XSCF User s Guide The following changes were added to or not included in the August 2009 edition of this document TABLE 3 3 Documentation Updates Subject Change Active Directory and LDAP SSL XSCF Unit Firmware Updates Not yet added See Active Directory and LDAP SSL on page 2 in these Product Notes Not yet changed in Chapter 8 1 10 Replace steps 2 and 3 in these sections e Confirming That the XSCF Firmware is Updated When the XSCF Unit is Replaced in a System with a Single XSCF Unit or Both Replacement in a System with Redundant XSCF Units Confirming That the XSCF Firmware is Updated When the MBU is Replaced in the M3000 Server The replacement steps are 2 If the replacement unit and the replaced unit have different versions a message is displayed In this case the firmware is not updated automatically The operator must match the number of the firmware versions 3 When you update follow the procedure in Up
35. he domain to hang if either of Set the following parameter in the system the following conditions exist e A domain contains 256 or more CPUs e Memory error occurred and the DIMM has been degraded specification file etc system set drmach drmach_disable_mcopy 1 1 Reboot the domain 42 Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP 1092 May 2010 TABLE 3 5 CR ID Description Solaris OS Issues and Workarounds Fixed in Solaris 10 10 08 3 of 3 Workaround 6679370 6720261 The following message may be output on the console during system boot addition of the External I O Expansion Unit using hotplug or an FMEMA operation by DR SUNW MSG ID SUN4 8000 75 TYPE Fault VER 1 SEVERITY Critical DESC A problem was detected in the PCIExpress subsystem Refer to http sun com msg SUN4 8000 75 for more information If your domain is running Solaris 10 5 08 OS the system might panic trap during normal operation Add the following to etc system then reboot the domain set pcie_expected_ce_mask 0x2001 Set the following parameter in the system specification file etc system set heaplp_use_st1lb 0 Then reboot the domain Chapter 3 Information About Software 43 Solaris Issues Fixed in Solaris 10 5 08 TABLE 3 6 lists issues that have been fixed in the Solaris 10 5 08 OS You might encounter them in earlier releases TABLE 3 6 Solaris OS Issues
36. he specifications of maximum power consumption apparent power and heat dissipation by the type of CPU The figures represent the system configuration described below the table in which every CPU Memory Board Unit CMU is mounted with the same CPU TABLE 2 8 CPU Types and Power Specifications on the M8000 Server Frequency Power Consumption Apparent Power Heat dissipation CPU GHz Number KW KVA Ku h SPARC64 VI 2 28 16 9 42 9 99 33912 Perec 2 4 16 9 52 10 09 34272 SPARC64 VII 2 52 16 10 07 10 68 36252 outre 2 88 16 10 49 11 12 37764 The M8000 system configuration CMU x 4 4GB DIMM x 128 IOU x 4 HDD x 16 PCI E x 32 DAT x1 TABLE 2 3 CPU Types and Power Specifications on the M9000 Server Base Cabinet Frequency Power Consumption ApparentPower Heat dissipation CPU GHz Number KW KVA Kd h SPARC64 VI 2 28 32 18 06 19 16 65016 Fi 2 4 32 18 26 19 37 65736 SPARC64 VII 2 52 32 19 36 20 54 69696 Fe 2 88 32 19 87 21 07 71532 The M9000 base cabinet system configuration CMU x 4 4GB DIMM x 128 IOU x 4 HDD x 16 PCI E x 32 DAT x1 TABLE 2 10 CPU Types and Power Specifications on the M9000 Server Base Cabinet Expansion Cabinet Frequency Power Consumption Apparent Power Heat dissipation CPU GHz Number KW KVA Ku h SPARC64 VI 2 28 64 36 11 38 30 129996 Fee 24 64 36 51 38 73 131436 SPARC64 VII 2 52 64 38 71 41 06 139356 ne 2 88 64 39 72 42 13 142992 The M9000 base cabinet ex
37. hupcl cause the console to lose characters during opost onlcr crtscts f 9600 stress This procedure is required only once 6505921 Correctable error on the system PCIe bus Create a file etc fm fmd fmd conf containing controller generates an invalid fault the following lines setprop client buflim 40m setprop client memlim 40m 6522433 The incorrect motherboard might be Check system status on XSCF identified by mdump for cpu faults after reboot 44 Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP 1092 May 2010 TABLE 3 6 Solaris OS Issues and Workarounds Fixed in Solaris 10 5 08 2 of 4 CR ID Description Workaround 6527811 The showhardconf 8 command on the There is no workaround When each PCI card in the XSCF cannot display PCI card information External I O Expansion Unit is configured using PCI that is installed in the External I O hot plug the PCI card information is displayed Expansion Unit if the External I O correctly Expansion Unit is configured using PCI hot plug 6536564 showlogs 8 and showstatus 8 command To avoid this problem issue the following might report wrong I O component commands on the domain cd usr platform SUNW SPARCEnterprise 11ib m topo plugins mv ioboard so ioboard so orig svcadm restart fmd Contact a service engineer if the following messages are displayed SUNW MSG ID SUNOS 8000 1L TYPE Defect VER 1 SEVERITY Minor EVENT TIME Sun May 6 18 22
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40. ight have at least one uneven schedule event core assignment Chapter 3 Information About Software 39 TABLE 3 3 Solaris OS Issues and Workarounds Fixed in Solaris 10 10 09 2 of 2 CR ID Description Workaround 6800734 deleteboard hang in a domain There is no workaround 6821108 DR and showdevices do not work after XSCF Reboot the XSCF service processor twice Half reboot the SAs are deleted the first time and half are deleted the second time so the second addition succeeds and IPsec communication is reestablished 6827340 DR and Memory patrol may fail due to SCF There is no workaround command error Solaris Issues Fixed in Solaris 10 5 09 TABLE 3 4 lists issues that have been fixed in the Solaris 10 5 09 OS You might encounter them in earlier releases TABLE 3 4 Solaris OS Issues and Workarounds Fixed in Solaris 10 5 09 CR ID Description Workaround 6588555 Resetting the XSCF during a DR operation on Do not start an XSCF reset while a DR operation permanent memory might cause domain panic is underway Wait for the DR operation to complete before starting the reset 6623226 The Solaris command lockstat 1M or the Do not use the Solaris lockstat 1M dtrace lockstat provider might cause a system command or the dtrace lockstat provider panic 6680733 Sun Quad port Gigabit Ethernet Adapter UTP If posible use the card in x8 slot Otherise there QGC amp Sun Dual 10 GigE Fiber XFP Low is no workaround Profile Adapter XGF
41. il Solaris 6872501 Cores are not offlined when requested by the Use fmdump 1M with its v option on the XSCF Service Processor to identify the faulty core Once identified use psradm 8 on the domain to offline the core 6888928 IPMP interface fails since probe packets are not Disable probe based failure detection See sent through that interface Problem occurs InfoDoc 211105 86869 with M3000 M4000 M5000 M8000 M9000 servers running the Solaris 10 10 09 OS and IPMP or any Solaris release running IPMP with Patch 141444 09 installed Solaris Issues Fixed in Solaris 10 10 09 TABLE 3 3 lists issues that have been fixed in the Solaris 10 10 09 OS You might encounter them in earlier releases TABLE 3 3 Solaris OS Issues and Workarounds Fixed in Solaris 10 10 09 1 of 2 CR ID Description Workaround 6572827 The prtdiag v command reports PCI bus There is no workaround types incorrectly It reports PCI for PCI X leaf devices and UNKN for legacy PCI devices 6724307 Scheduler decisions are occasionally Use processor sets to prevent uneven threads to unbalanced Sometimes two threads will be on one core causing both to run at about half speed while another core is idle For many OpenMP and similar parallel applications the application performance is limited by the speed of the slowest thread Uneven scheduling is not common perhaps 1 in 50 or 1 in 100 decisions But if there are 128 threads running then the application m
42. in the n option do not specify the m option New text If you specified 0 0 0 0 in the n option you must specify 0 0 0 0 in the m option or you must omit the m option setupfru 8 Added to EXTENDED DESCRIPTION Although a CMU with two CPUMs can be configured into Quad XSB mode on an M8000 M9000 server the server generates a configuration error message for these XSBs because they do not have at least one CPUM and memory setupplat form 8 Added the following information An XSCF user account user name cannot match an LDAP user name and an XSCF user account number UID cannot match an LDAP UID number showdevices 8 Added to EXTENDED DESCRIPTION showenvironment 8 showhardconf 8 showlogs 8 showpacketfilters 8 The showdevices 8 command displays a complete list of devices when executed right after a Solaris OS boot or a DR operation However when executed at other times showdevices does not display a complete list if the Solaris OS has unloaded drivers for any unused devices To be certain the displayed list is complete run the devfsadm command with the v option on the domain before running showdevices For more information about the devfsadm command see the Solaris devfsadm 1M man page Added Airflow volume information is not supported on the M4000 M5000 servers Replaced Old text The power consumption information is displayed on the M3000 M4000 M5000 servers New t
43. ion locations of the M8000 M9000 servers The grounding port can be used to connect the clip of the antistatic wrist strap and the antistatic conductive mat FIGURE 2 6 M8000 Grounding Port Connection Locations for the Wrist Strap Clip and the Antistatic Conductive Mat Front View CONNECT WRISTSTRAP HERE Chapter 2 Information About Hardware 25 26 FIGURE 2 7 M8000 Grounding Port Connection Locations for the Wrist Strap Clip and the Antistatic Conductive Mat Rear View CONNECT n WRISTSTRAP HERE CONNECT c WRISTSTRAP HERE Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP 1092 May 2010 FIGURE 2 8 M9000 Grounding Port Connection Locations for the Wrist Strap Clip and the Antistatic Conductive Mat Front View CONNECT lt n WRISTSTRAP HERE Bree E ai il J A CONNECT WRISTSTRAP HERE a ooooaon O o o o olojo 0000000 0 In 0 0 U CON mere CONNECT 3 Ii II WRISTSTRAP HERE n lee le
44. irectory configuration from the command line By default Active Directory support is disabled To enable Active Directory support use the following command XSCF gt setad enable To disable Active Directory support use the following command XSCF gt setad disable To show if Active Directory support is enabled or disabled enter XSCF gt showad Chapter 1 Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP 1092 3 Use the setad command with its various parameters to configure Active Directory For example you can use it to set up one primary and five alternate Active Directory servers assign group names and privileges configure a particular user domain control logging of diagnostic messages and more User domain can be configured explicitly through the setad userdomain command on XSCF or entered at login prompt using the form user domain See the setad 8 and showad 8 man pages Note Once Active Directory has been configured and used downgrading the firmware is not advised However if you must downgrade to an earlier release run the following command immediately after doing so restoredefaults c xscfu Configuring XSCF for LDAP SSL Support The commands setldapss1 8 and showldapss1 8 let you set and view LDAP SSL configuration from the command line These commands do for LDAP SSL what the setad 8 and showad 8 commands do for Active Directory and support many of
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46. low chapters in the SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Service Manual m Chapter 6 Replacement of CPU Memory Board Unit CMU CPU and DIMM m Chapter 7 I O Unit IOU Replacement Caution Do not touch the CMU IOU or the dummy unit without wearing an antistatic wrist strap Failure to do so might result in serious damage to operating domains Method of Removing Static Electricity This section provides the information on the method of removing static electricity 1 Connect an antistatic conductive mat to a server grounding port See Grounding Port Connection Locations on page 25 Note Do not use antistatic bags or packaging materials in place of a grounded antistatic conductive mat when handling the FRUs 2 Connect an antistatic wrist strap clip to a server grounding port See Grounding Port Connection Locations on page 25 3 Ensure that the metallic underside of the wrist strap is in direct contact with your skin The wrist strap should be snug around the wrist so that it does not rotate Chapter 2 Information About Hardware 21 22 FIGURE 2 1 Antistatic Wrist Strap Showing the Metallic Underside 4 To mount a FRU place it on the grounded antistatic conductive mat With your bare hand wearing the antistatic wrist strap touch the metallic FRU chassis for 5 or more seconds When touching the FRU take care not to damage the parts such as the connector on the edge of the unit C
47. nterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP 1092 May 2010 Preface These product notes contain important and late breaking information about the Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 server hardware software firmware and documentation covering the XCP 1090 XCP 1091 and XCP 1092 firmware releases This document is written for experienced system administrators with working knowledge of computer networks and advanced knowledge of the Oracle Solaris Operating System Some references to server names are abbreviated for readability For example if you see a reference to the SPARC Enterprise M9000 server or simply the M9000 server note that the full product name is the Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server Note Generally Product Notes content supersedes that of other product documentation because Product Notes are published with more frequency However in case of a conflict compare the publication date on each document s title page Related Documentation Related documents are listed in the following table All are available online See Where to View Releated Documentation on page xi Note All glossaries in the following documents have been moved to the separate glossary document listed in the table Application Title Latest information Overview Planning Safety Compliance Getting started Planning Installation Installation Service Glossary Software administration
48. ooting From a WAN Boot Server 14 Sun Java Enterprise System 15 v To Enable the Web Console SMF Service 15 v To Identify Degraded Memory in a System 16 Information About Hardware 17 Hardware Issues and Workarounds 17 Booting Multiple Systems From a Single J4200 JBOD Storage Array 17 DVD Drives and cfgadm 18 Sun Crypto Accelerator 6000 Cards 18 U320 PCIe SCSI Card 18 Hardware Documentation Updates 19 Ambient Environmental Requirements 20 Antistatic Precautions 21 Method of Removing Static Electricity 21 Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP 1092 May 2010 Removing Static Electricity on a CMU and an IOU 22 Grounding Port Connection Locations 25 External Dimensions and Weights 28 Cooling Air Conditioning Requirements 29 Electrical Specifications 30 CPU Types and Server Maximum Power Consumption 31 Electrical Specifications 33 3 Information About Software 35 XCP Issues and Workarounds 35 Solaris OS Issues and Workarounds 36 Solaris Issues for All Supported Releases 36 Solaris Issues Fixed in Solaris 10 10 09 39 Solaris Issues Fixed in Solaris 105 09 40 Solaris Issues Fixed in Solaris 10 10 08 41 Solaris Issues Fixed in Solaris 10 5 08 44 Solaris Issues Fixed in Solaris 10 8 07 47 Documentation Updates 51 SPARC Enterprise M3000 M4000 M5000 M8000 M9000 Servers XSCF Reference Manual 51 SPARC Enterprise M3000 M4000 M5000 M8000 M9000 Servers XSCF User s Guide 54 Contents vii viii Sun SPARC E
49. out this document by clicking the Feedback link at http docs sun com Include the title and part number of your document with your feedback Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP Version 1092 part number 821 1845 11 xii Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP 1092 May 2010 CHAPTER 1 Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP 1092 This document covers changes introduced in the XCP 1090 XCP 1091 and XCP 1092 firmware releases This chapter contains the following sections What s New in XCP 1090 1091 and 1092 on page 1 Minimum Required Firmware Operating Systems and Browsers on page 7 Solaris Patch Requirements on page 8 What s New in XCP 1090 1091 and 1092 on page 1 Functionality Issues and Limitations on page 12 Additional Information and Procedures on page 14 What s New in XCP 1090 1091 and 1092 The XCP 1092 release updates information about the Active Directory and LDAP SSL features and related man pages which were introduced in the XCP 1091 release The XCP 1092 firmware is the first XCP release to support the new commands setpacketfilters 8 and showpacket filteres 8 See the new man pages using the man 1 command The XCP 1091 firmware introduced the Active Directory and LDAP SSL features See Active Directory and LDAP SSL on page 2 the man pages for these commands and Documentation U
50. pansion cabinet system configuration CMU x 16 4GB DIMM x 512 IOU x 16 HDD x 64 PCI E x 128 DAT x2 32 Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP 1092 May 2010 Electrical Specifications Section 1 2 2 of the Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Overview Guide will be updated with the information that appears below including the following tables The table shows samples of power consumption of specific configurations and program load The power consumption of the system varies depending on configuration of the system characteristics of your running programs and ambient temperature TABLE 2 11 Power consumption Examples Item M8000 M9000 Base cabinet expansion Base cabinet only cabinet Ambient temperature 25 C 25 C 25 C Configuration CMU 4 8 16 2 52GHz CPU x 4 4GB DIMM x 32 IOU 4 8 16 73GB HDD x 4 PCIe card x 8 Power consumptiont 7 48 kW 14 64 kW 29 96 kW 10Watt PCIe cards are installed t These power consumptions are just samples You can see higher power consumption values depending on characteristics of your work load Chapter 2 Information About Hardware 33 34 Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP 1092 May 2010 CHAPTER 3 Information About Software This section describes specific software and firmware issues and workarounds It includes the following sections m XCP Issues and Workarounds on page 35 m Solaris OS Issue
51. pdates on page 51 The XCP 1090 firmware is the first XCP release to support the Airflow Indicator For more information see Airflow Indicator on page 4 m The XCP 1090 firmware is the first XCP release to support the new XSCF command showdateoffset 8 For details see the man page m The XCP 1090 firmware is the first XCP release to support the SPARC64 VII 2 88 GHz processor Earlier XCP firmware releases do not support this faster version of the processor which in all other respects is functionally identical to all SPARC64 VII processors See Minimum Required Firmware Operating Systems and Browsers on page 7 Active Directory and LDAP SSL The XCP 1091 release introduced support for the Active Directory and LDAP SSL features Some changes to these features were introduced in the XCP 1092 release This section contains the latest information about these features m Active Directory is a distributed directory service from Microsoft Corporation Like an LDAP directory service it is used to authenticate users m LDAP SSL originally called LDAP over SSL offers enhanced security to LDAP users by way of Secure Socket Layer SSL technology It uses LDAP directory service to authenticate users Note For security reasons XSCF uses only LDAP over SSL to communicate with an Active Directory server or an LDAP SSL server Active Directory and LDAP SSL each provide both authentication of user credentials and au
52. plied in patch 120222 27 m Sun StorageTek Enterprise Class 4 Gigabit Dual Port Fiber Channel PCIe HBA part SG XPCIE2FC EM4 m Sun StorageTek Enterprise Class 4 Gigabit Single Port Fiber Channel PCle HBA part SG XPCIE1FC EM4 Chapter 1 Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP 1092 11 Patches for QLogic PCIe Cards The following QLogic cards require drivers supplied in patch 125166 10 m Sun StorageTek Enterprise Class 4 Gigabit Dual Port Fiber Channel PCIe HBA part SG XPCIE2FC OF4 m Sun StorageTek Enterprise Class 4 Gigabit Single Port Fiber Channel PCIe HBA part SG XPCIE1FC QF4 Functionality Issues and Limitations This section describes issues and limitations known at the time of this release Limitations for SPARC64 VII Processors Caution You must complete the upgrades to the XCP firmware and to the Solaris OS before inserting SPARC 64 VII processors into the chassis General Functionality Issues and Limitations Caution For dynamic reconfiguration DR and hot plug issues see Solaris OS Issues and Workarounds on page 36 Note Do not use the Service Processor SP as the Network Time Protocol NTP server Using an independent NTP server provides optimal reliability in maintaining consistent time on the SP and the domains For more information about NTP see the Sun Blueprint document Using NTP to Control and Synchronize System Clocks http www sun com
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54. red with the corresponding group name from the Active Directory or LDAP SSL server Each group has privileges associated with it which are configured on the XSCF A user s group membership is used to determine the user s privileges once the user is authenticated Three types of groups can be configured administrator operator and custom To configure an administrator or operator group only group name is required An administrator group has platadm useradm and auditadm privileges associated with it An operator group has platop and auditop privileges associated with it To configure a custom group both group name and privileges are required For each type of group up to five groups can be configured A user assigned to more than one group receives the sum of all privileges associated with those groups To support these new features two new configuration screens Active Directory and LDAP SSL have been added to the Settings menu of the XSCF Web Remote users can log in and use the XSCF Web once they have been authenticated by Active Directory or LDAP SSL Note If you are an Active Directory or LDAP SSL user log in to the XSCF network using SSH and password rather than user public key If you already uploaded a public key use the following command to delete it XSCF gt setssh c delpubkey a u proxyuser Configuring XSCF for Active Directory Support The commands setad 8 and showad 8 let you set and view the Active D
55. rocessor Downgrading XCP Firmware Downgrading your XCP firmware to an earlier release is not advised However if you must downgrade your XCP 1092 firmware to the XCP 1091 or XCP 1090 release or your XCP 1091 release to the XCP 1090 version execute the following command afterward to clear old style audit logs XSCF gt restoredefaults c xscfu Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP 1092 May 2010 Minimum Required Firmware Operating Systems and Browsers The Solaris Operating System and Sun Java Enterprise System software are preinstalled on new Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 servers TABLE 1 1 lists the first firmware and operating system OS version to support SPARC64 VI and SPARC64 VII processors TABLE 1 1 Minimum Required Firmware and Operating System Versions Minimum XCP Processor Type Version Minimum Operating System Version SPARC64 VI processors XCP 1040 Solaris 10 11 06 with patches required Solaris 10 10 08 with no patches required SPARC64 VII processors XCP 1070 Solaris 10 8 07 with patches required 2 52 GHz Solaris 10 10 08 with no patches required SPARC64 VII processors XCP 1081 Solaris 10 8 07 with patches required 2 52 GHz with 8GB Solaris 10 10 08 with no patches required DIMMs SPARC64 VII processors XCP 1090 Solaris 10 8 07 with the Solaris 10 10 09 Patch 2 88 GHz Bundle required Solaris 10 10 09 with no patches required
56. rrectable error UE panic workaround Systems will function correctly but events dc Remove tie egean ei se file normally automatically diagnosed by FMA rm var fm fmd ckpt cpumemdiagnosis using this module will require manual cpumem diagnosis diagnosis i 2 Restart fmd service pat Re svcadm restart fmd SUNW MSG ID FMD 8000 2K TYPE Defect VER 1 SEVERITY Minor EVENT TIME Thu Feb 15 15 46 57 JST To avoid this problem in advance add the following 2007 line in the file 1ib svc method svc dumpadm PLATFORM SUNW SPARC Enterprise CSN BE80601007 HOSTNAME col2 ffem7 do savedev none rm f var fm fmd ckpt cpumemdiagnosis cpumem diagnosis 6495303 The use of a PCIe Dual Port Ultra320 SCSI Do not use this card in IOU Slot 1 controller card SG X PCIE2SCSIU320Z in IOU Slot 1 on a Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 M5000 server might result in a system panic 6498283 Using the DR deleteboard command while There is no workaround psradm operations are running on a domain might cause a system panic 6499304 Unexpected message is displayed on console Check CPU status on XSCF and CPU isn t offlined when numerous correctable error CE occur Example SUNW MSG ID FMD 8000 11 TYPE Defect VER 1 SEVERITY Minor EVENT TIME Fri Feb 2 18 31 07 JST 2007 PLATFORM SPARC Enterprise CSN BE80601035 HOSTNAME FF2 35 0 48 Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP 1092 May 2010
57. rs workloads that make heavy use of the Solaris kernel might not scale as expected when you increase the thread count to a value greater than 256 The system panics when DiskSuite cannot read the metadb during DR This bug affects the following cards SG XPCIE2FC QF4 4 Gigabit PCI e Dual Port Fiber Channel HBA SG XPCIE1FC QF4 4 Gigabit PCI e Single Port Fiber Channel HBA e SG XPCI2FC OF4 4 Gigabit PCI X Dual Port Fiber Channel HBA e SG XPCI1FC QF4 4 Gigabit PCI X Single Port Fiber Channel HBA After the system is rebooted the fmadm repair command can be used to prevent a recurrence of the problem on the next boot Retry the DR operation at a later time For Solaris domains that include SPARC64 VII processors limit domains to a maximum of 256 threads Panic can be avoided when a duplicated copy of the metadb is accessible via another Host Bus Adaptor Chapter 3 Information About Software 41 TABLE 3 5 Solaris OS Issues and Workarounds Fixed in Solaris 10 10 08 2 of 3 CR ID Description Workaround 6589833 The DR addboard command might cause a There is no workaround system hang if you are adding a Sun StorageTek Enterprise Class 4 Gigabit Dual Port Fiber Channel PCI E HBA card SG XPCIE2FC QF4 at the same time that an SAP process is attempting to access storage devices attached to this card The chance of a system hang is increased if the following cards are used for heavy network traffic
58. s and Workarounds on page 36 m Documentation Updates on page 51 To obtain patches and to check for availability of new patches that fix these issues go to http sunsolve sun com XCP Issues and Workarounds This section lists XCP issues known to exist in the XCP 1092 release If you are using XCP 1090 or 1091 firmware refer to this section in the Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Product Notes for that version of the firmware TABLE 3 1 lists XCP issues and possible workarounds TABLE 3 1 XCP Issues and Workarounds ID Description Workaround 6789066 In the settimezone c adddst command Specify the abbreviation of time zone and the when you set eight or more letters to the name of Daylight Saving Time in seven letters abbreviation of time zone and the name of or less Daylight Saving Time execution of the showlogs command induces a segmentation fault and results in an error 35 Solaris OS Issues and Workarounds This section contains information about Solaris OS issues The following tables list issues you might encounter depending upon which Solaris OS release you are using Solaris Issues for All Supported Releases TABLE 3 2 lists Solaris OS issues that you might encounter in any Solaris release If your domains are not running the latest Solaris release also take notice of CRs fixed in releases later than yours as noted in the tables that follow TABLE 3 2 Solaris OS Is
59. stall the Solaris network OS e X4447A Z X4447A Z PCIe Quad port Gigabit Ethernet Adapter UTP e X1027A Z X1027A Z PCIe Dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber XFP 6542632 Memory leak in PCIe module if driver attach There is no workaround fails 50 Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP 1092 May 2010 Documentation Updates REVIEWERS THIS SECTION IS A DIRECT COPY FROM THE 1091 IK PROD NOTES This section contains late breaking information that became known after the documentation set was published or was very recently added Note Online man pages are updated more frequently than the SPARC Enterprise M3000 M4000 M5000 M8000 M9000 Servers XSCF Reference Manual SPARC Enterprise M3000 M4000 M5000 M8000 M9000 Servers XSCF Reference Manual The following changes are not included in the XCP 1090 edition of this document dated August 2009 TABLE 3 8 XSCF Reference Manual man page Change Advanced Directory and Four new man pages related to these features LDAP SSL man pages setad 8 setldapss1 8 showad 8 and showldapss1 8 You can use the man 1 command to view these man pages online adduser 8 Added the following information If the Service Processor is configured to use Lightweight Directory Access Protocol LDAP Active Directory or LDAP SSL for user account data the user name and UID if specified must not already be in use locally or in LDAP Active Directory or LDAP SS
60. sted 1 119254 51 SunOS 5 10 Install and Patch Utilities Patch 2 125891 01 SunOS 5 10 libc_psr_hwcap so 1 patch 3 127755 01 SunOS 5 10 Fault Manager patch 4 127127 11 SunOS 5 10 kernel patch Solaris 10 8 07 OS with patch 127127 11 might panic trap during normal domain operation CR 6720261 To prevent this you must set the following parameter in the system specification file etc system set heaplp_ use _stlb 0 Then reboot the domain Chapter 1 Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP 1092 9 In addition you cannot do a fresh install of the Solaris 10 8 07 OS on a domain that contains SPARC64 VII processors The following two workarounds apply m Create a fully patched image then use Jumpstart m Start the OS install on a domain that contains only SPARC64 VI processors add the required patches then add the SPARC64 VII proce ssors to the domain Solaris 10 8 07 with SPARC64 VI Processors None Solaris 10 11 06 11 06 OS patches 123003 03 and 124171 06 must be installed on your system prior to using Sun Connection Update Manager These patches are available from http sunsolve sun com A Caution For Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 servers running Solaris 10 The following patches are required for Solaris 10 11 06 OS Note that Solaris 10 11 06 does not support SPARC64 VII processors even with these required patches Install the patches in the order in which they
61. sues and Workarounds for All Supported Releases 1 of 4 CR ID Description Workaround 4816837 System hangs when executing parallel hot There is no workaround plug operation with SP DR in suspend phase 6459540 The DAT72 internal tape drive connected to Add the following definition to M4000 M5000 M8000 M9000 servers might kernel drv st conf time out during tape operations The device might also be identified by the tape config list system as a QIC drive SEAGATE DAT DAT72 000 SEAGATE DAT DAT72 000 SEAGATE_ DAT DAT72 000 SEAGATE_DAT DAT72 000 1 0x34 0 0x9639 4 0x00 0x8c 0x8c 0x8c 3 There are four spaces between SEAGATE DAT and DAT72 000 6522017 Domains using the ZFS file system cannot use Set the maximum size of the ZFS ARC lower DR For detailed assistance contact your authorized service representative 6531036 The error message network There is no workaround initialization failed appears repeatedly after a boot net installation 36 Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP 1092 May 2010 TABLE 3 2 Solaris OS Issues and Workarounds for All Supported Releases 2 of 4 CR ID Description Workaround 6532215 volfs or dscp services might fail when a Restart the service To avoid the problem issue domain is booted the following commands svecfg s dscp setprop i start timeout_seconds count 300 svecfg s volfs setprop i start timeout_seconds count 300 svcadm refresh dscp svcadm refresh
62. thorization of the user access level to networked resources They use authentication to verify the identity of users before they can access system resources and to grant specific access privileges to users in order to control their rights to access networked resources User privileges are either configured on XSCF or learned from a server based on each user s group membership in a network domain A user can belong to more than one group Active Directory or LDAP SSL authenticates users in the order in which the users domains are configured A user domain is the authentication domain used to authenticate a user Once authenticated user privileges can be determined in the following ways m In the simplest case users privileges are determined directly through the Active Directory or LDAP SSL configuration on the XSCF There is a defaultrole parameter for both Active Directory and LDAP SSL If this parameter is configured or set all users authenticated via Active Directory or LDAP SSL are assigned privileges set in this parameter Setting up users in an Active Directory or LDAP SSL server requires only a password with no regard to group membership Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP 1092 May 2010 m If the defaultrole parameter is not configured or set user privileges are learned from the Active Directory or LDAP SSL server based on the user s group membership On XSCF the group parameter must be configu
63. u connect the XSCF LAN and the network device fixed to the full duplex mode according to the IEEE 802 3 rule the XSCF LAN communicates in half duplex mode and network communication speed might slow down or communication errors may occur Due to DR and ZFS file system interoperability issues M8000 M9000 servers are shipped pre installed using the UFS file system See CR 6522017 in TABLE 3 2 For information about I O options and storage such as the number of cards supported in a domain see the Sun Cross Platform IO Support page http wikis sun com display PlatformloSupport Home Do not use the CD RW DVD RW drive unit and the TAPE drive unit at the same time Power cables are not redundant on single power feed servers without the dual power feed option All power cables must be connected and powered on at all times The use of the External I O Expansion Unit to connect the host server to an external boot disk drive is not supported DR operations on an M8000 M9000 server might fail with a misleading message regarding the board being unavailable for DR after the addfru 8 or replacefru 8 command have been used for active replacement This happens when the active replacement is done without the diagnostic test in the maintenance menu Execute the diagnosis in the maintenance menu of the addfru 8 or replacefru 8 command to avoid this problem To recover execute the testsb 8 command or delete the CPU memory board unit using the d
64. uide Upgrading and Downgrading XCP Upgrading to XCP 1090 1091 or XCP 1092 For information about upgrading your firmware see the Sun SPARC Enterprise M3000 M4000 M5000 M8000 M9000 Servers XSCF User s Guide Note After upgrading XCP firmware use the reboot xscf 8 command to reset the XSCF Upgrading From a Version Earlier Than XCP 1050 If you are currently running a version earlier than XCP 1050 you cannot directly upgrade to XCP 1090 1091 or XCP 1092 You must first upgrade to an interim version of XCP between 1050 and 1070 inclusive Contact your Oracle representative for access to older XCP releases Note Use the deleteuser 8 command to delete any accounts named admin prior to updating to XCP 1050 or later The admin account name is reserved starting in XCP 1050 Chapter 1 Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP 1092 5 Domain Restart Required After Certain Type of XCP Upgrade On a domain that has been in operation during the update to XCP 1090 or XCP 1091 from a version between XCP 1050 and 1070 inclusive when you perform dynamic reconfiguration DR to add or replace a SPARC64 VII processor you need to update the OpenBoot PROM firmware The OpenBoot PROM firmware is updated as you update the XCP and restart the domain For this reason restart all the domains after you update the firmware to the latest XCP release regardless of whether you added or replaced a SPARC64 VII p
65. un SPARC Enterprise M3000 M4000 M5000 M8000 M9000 Servers XSCF User s Guide Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP 1092 May 2010 Application Title Software Sun SPARC Enterprise M3000 M4000 M5000 M8000 M9000 Servers XSCF administration Reference Manual Software Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 M5000 M8000 M9000 Servers Dynamic administration Reconfiguration DR User s Guide Software Sun Management Center Sun MC Software Supplement administration Capacity on Demand administration Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 M5000 M8000 M9000 Servers Capacity on Demand COD User s Guide Where to View Releated Documentation Hardware documents REED REED http WEEDS BECP Software documents http docs sun com app docs prod sparc m9k m9000 sw 1 docs docs docs docs docs sun sun sun sun sun com app docs prod sparc m3k m3000 hw 1 com app docs prod sparc m4k m4000 hw 1 com app docs prod sparc m5k m5000 hw 1 com app docs prod sparc m8k m8000 hw 1 com app docs prod sparc m9k m9000 hw 1 Oracle Solaris Operating System documents http docs sun com en hic en hic en hic en hic en hic en hic Preface xi Documentation Support and Training Function URL Documentation http www sun com documentation Support http www sun com support Training http www sun com training Documentation Feedback Submit comments ab
66. volfs 6588650 On occasion a M4000 M5000 M8000 M9000 There is no workaround server is unable to DR after an XSCF failover to or from backup XSCF 6589644 When XSCF switchover happens on an The console can be recovered by pressing M8000 M9000 server after the system board Ctrl q the Ctrl key and the q key has been added using the addboard command the console is no longer available 6592302 Unsuccessful DR operation leaves memory It might be possible to recover by adding the partially configured board back to the domain with an addboard d command Otherwise try deleteboard 8 again Chapter 3 Information About Software 37 TABLE 3 2 CR ID Description Solaris OS Issues and Workarounds for All Supported Releases 3 of 4 Workaround 6660168 If a ubc piowbeue cpu error occurs on a domain the Solaris Fault Management cpumem diagnosis module might fail causing an interruption in FMA service If this happens you will see output similar to the following sample in the console log SUNW MSG ID FMD 8000 2K TYPE Defect VER 1 SEVERITY Minor EVENT TIME Fri Apr 4 21 41 57 PDT 2008 PLATFORM SUNW SPARC Enterprise 2020642002 HOSTNAME lt hostname gt SOURCE fmd self diagnosis REV 1 0 EVENT ID 6b2e1547 aa65 6bcc bcb1 cb03a7dd77e3 DESC A Solaris Fault Manager component has experienced an error that required the module to be disabled Refer to http sun com msg FMD 8000 2K for more information
67. ximum Power Consumption of the Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Site Planning Guide TABLE 2 7 Specifications Three Phase Star Power Requirements NAME Power consumption kW Apparent power kVA SPARC Enterprise M8000 server Power Cabinet 3 88 10 49 SPARC Enterprise M9000 server 6 20 19 87 base cabinet Power Cabinet SPARC Enterprise 9000 server 11 92 39 72 base cabinet expansion cabinet Power Cabinet 4 11 11 12 6 58 21 07 12 64 42 13 The values for maximum power consumption and apparent power vary by the type of CPU mounted To plan the installation of a serv er equipped with different types of CPU use the CPU of larger power consumption as a basis For the types of CPU see Section 3 3 6 CPU Types and Server Maximum Power Consumption of the Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Site Planning Guide CPU Types and Server Maximum Power Consumption The CPU Types and Power Specifications information found in Section 3 3 6 of the Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Site Planning Guide will be updated with the information that appears below including the following tables This section describes the CPU types and the maximum power consumption of the server There are four types of CPU The power specifications of the SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 servers vary depending on the CPU type and the system configurations Chapter 2 Information About Hardware 31 The tables list t
68. xml Note Due to an issue that arises from the installation of the Java Enterprise System 5 Update 1 on your system it might be necessary to enable the Web Console SMF service To Enable the Web Console SME Service e Log in to a terminal as root then enable the service svcadm enable svc system webconsole console If you have to reload the software go to the following web site for download and installation instructions http www sun com software preinstall If you download a fresh copy of software that software might not include patches that are mandatory for your server Before installing the software refer to Solaris Patch Requirements on page 8 for information about checking for and installing required patches Chapter 1 Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP 1092 15 V To Identify Degraded Memory in a System 1 Log in to XSCE 2 Type the following command XSCF gt showstatus 3 The following example reveals that DIMM number 0A on the Motherboard unit has degraded memory XSCF gt showstatus MBU_A Status Normal MEM 0A Status Degraded 16 Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP 1092 May 2010 CHAPTER 2 Information About Hardware This section describes the special instructions and the issues about the SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 server hardware m Hardware Issues and Workarounds on page 17 m
69. ypto Accelerator SCA 6000 card driver hot plug operations on SCA 6000 cards can cause SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 servers to panic or hang Version 1 1 of the SCA6000 driver and firmware supports hot plug operations after the required bootstrap firmware upgrade has been performed Version 1 0 of the SCA6000 driver does not support hot plug and should not be used U320 PCIe SCSI Card U320 PCIe SCSI card part numbers 375 3357 01 02 is not supported in PCI cassettes for Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 servers Customers must use part number 375 3357 03 at a minimum Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP 1092 May 2010 Hardware Documentation Updates This section contains important and late breaking hardware information and corrections that became known after the documentation set was published TABLE 2 1 Hardware Documentation Updates Title Section Number Update SPARC Enterprise M8000 M90000 Section 6 5 Servers Service Manual Section 7 2 SPARC Enterprise M8000 M90000 Section 1 2 1 2 Servers Site Planning Guide Section 3 2 1 Section 3 3 Section 3 3 6 SPARC Enterprise M8000 M90000 Section 1 2 2 Servers Overview Guide The section Antistatic Precautions will be added to the following Chapters e Chapter 6 Replacement of CPU Memory Board Unit CMU CPU and DIMM e Chapter 7 1 0 Unit IOU Replacement See Antistatic Precautions on page 21 TABLE 1 3 External
70. ysical board DR operation can exceed the your system default timeout period and panic can occur set drmach fmem timeout 30 6527781 The cfgadm command fails while moving the There is no workaround To reconfigure DVD Tape DVD DAT drive between two domains drive execute reboot r from the domain exhibiting the problem 6530178 DR addboard command can hang Once the There is no workaround problem is observed further DR operations are blocked Recovery requires reboot of the domain 6530288 cfgadm 1M command may not correctly show There is no workaround Ap_Id format 6534471 Systems might panic trap during normal Disable the kernel large pages TLB programming In operation the file etc system change the heaplp_use_stlb variable to 0 set heaplp use stlb 0 6535564 PCI hot plug to PCI slot 0 1 or External I O Use DR instead of PCI hot plug if need to add or Expansion Unit may fail on XSB added by DR remove PCI card on the XSB Chapter 3 Information About Software 49 TABLE 3 7 Solaris OS Issues and Workarounds Fixed in Solaris 10 8 07 4 of 4 CR ID Description Workaround 6539084 There is a low probability of a domain panic during reboot when the Sun Quad GbE UTP x8 PCle X4447A Z card is present in a domain 6539909 Do not use the following I O cards for Use an alternative type of network card or onboard network access when you are using the boot network device to install the Solaris OS via the net install command to in

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