Fujitsu SPARC Enterprise M8000 Product Notes
Fujitsu SPARC Enterprise M8000 Product Notes

Fujitsu SPARC Enterprise M8000 Product Notes

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SPARC
Enterprise
®
M8000/M9000 Servers
Product Notes
For XCP version 1041
Manual Code C120-E467-04EN
Part No. 820-2390-13
October 2007, Revision A

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  • Page 1 SPARC Enterprise ® M8000/M9000 Servers Product Notes For XCP version 1041 Manual Code C120-E467-04EN Part No. 820-2390-13 October 2007, Revision A...
  • Page 2 Fujitsu Limited or Sun Microsystems, Inc., or any affiliate of either of them.
  • Page 3 Aucune partie de ce produit, de ces technologies ou de ce document ne peut être reproduite sous quelque forme que ce soit, par quelque moyen que ce soit, sans l’autorisation écrite préalable de Fujitsu Limited et de Sun Microsystems, Inc., et de leurs éventuels bailleurs de licence.
  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    Hardware Installation and Service Issues 7 Specific Issues and Workarounds 7 Hardware Documentation Updates 8 Errata of the SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Service Manual 12 Updates of the SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Service Manual 14 Power-On/Off Procedures of the Server with Expansion Cabinet 14...
  • Page 6 Circuit Breaker Capacity of Customer Panel Board 17 Software Issues 18 XCP Issues and Workarounds 18 Solaris Issues and Workarounds 21 Identifying Permanent Memory in a Target Board 31 Software Documentation Updates 32 SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP Version 1041 • October 2007...
  • Page 7: Preface

    Software Resources The Solaris™ Operating System and Sun Java™ Enterprise System software are preinstalled on your SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 servers. Contact a sales representative or a certified service engineer for software resources for your SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 servers.
  • Page 8: Accessing Documentation

    North American Site https://download.computers.us.fujitsu.com/ Note – Information in these product notes supersedes the information in the SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 servers documentation set. Solaris documentation is available at: http://www.sun.com/documentation viii SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP Version 1041 • October 2007...
  • Page 9: Fujitsu Welcomes Your Comments

    02 version release. Documentation Updates Modification of "Cooling Specifications" and "Circuit Breaker Capacity" described in the SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Site Planning Guide. Addition of articles about the documentation updates. Specific Issues and Workarounds Modification and addition of issues and workarounds which found after the 03 version release.
  • Page 10 SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP Version 1041 • October 2007...
  • Page 11: Sparc Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Product Notes

    SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Product Notes ® These product notes contain late-breaking information about the SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 server hardware, software, or documentation that became known after the documentation set was published. Supported Versions of Firmware and Software ■ Patch Information ■...
  • Page 12: Patch Information

    This XCP release does not support the Capacity-On-Demand (COD) feature. ■ Note – It is required that all SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 servers be upgraded to XCP 1050 in order to support adding future COD Right To Use (RTU) licenses. Contact your local Service Representative for assistance.
  • Page 13 125075-01 or later ■ Note – See “Software Resources” on page vii for information on how to find the latest patches. Installation information and README files are included in the patch download. SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Product Notes...
  • Page 14: Known Issues

    Use the command-line interface (CLI) instead on the Service Processor and the domains for other activities. Power off all domains before upgrading the XCP firmware. ■ SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP Version 1041 • October 2007...
  • Page 15 For 4447A-Z/X4447A-Z, PCIe Quad-port Gigabit Ethernet Adapter UTP cards, ■ these maximum limits apply: No more than two cards per I/O boat ■ No more than eight cards in a SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 servers ■ SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Product Notes...
  • Page 16: Notes For Dual Extended System Control Facility (Xscf) Unit

    XSCF unit for expansion cabinet. The Remote Cabinet Interface (RCI) functionality for the XSCFU_B#1 is not ■ supported. Do not connect and do not set the RCI device to the XSCFU_B#1. SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP Version 1041 • October 2007...
  • Page 17: Hardware Installation And Service Issues

    Power cables are not redundant on single On servers that have single power feed, all power feed servers without the dual power power cables must be connected and powered feed option. on at all times. SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Product Notes...
  • Page 18: Hardware Documentation Updates

    Description of HDD will be added, after the description of XSCFU and IOU (display part for LAN). See “LED Error Display” on page 15 for the addition. SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP Version 1041 • October 2007...
  • Page 19 "READY LED (green) of HDD turns off." SPARC Enterprise 12-5 12.2, "Active Replacement" Step 9 M8000/M9000 Servers The following sentence will be added at the end. Service Manual "READY LED (green) of HDD turns on." SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Product Notes...
  • Page 20 As Step 6, the following sentence will be added. "Confirm that the XSCF Standby LED (green) on the operator panel remains lit. If it is blinking, wait until it remains lit." SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP Version 1041 • October 2007...
  • Page 21 M8000/M9000 Servers information has been added: Site Planning Guide "SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers can use two types of power supply: single-phase power and three-phase power. Redundant power cables are supported only on servers that have the dual power feed option. The dual power feed option is included by default on servers that are configured for three- phase power."...
  • Page 22: Errata Of The Sparc Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Service Manual

    8.24 N.m (84 kgf.cm) for M8 bolts and 3.73 N.m (84 kgf.cm). (38 kgf.cm) for M6 bolts. • For M6 bolts, use a torque of 3.73 N.m (38 kgf.cm). SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP Version 1041 • October 2007...
  • Page 23 Errata of the SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Service Manual (Continued) TABLE 3 Page Number Description Update 21-1 21.1, "Overview of the SNSU" FIGURE 21-1, FIGURE 21-2, and FIGURE 21-3 show the mounting locations of the SNSUs of FIGURE 21-1, FIGURE 21-2, and FIGURE 21-3...
  • Page 24: Updates Of The Sparc Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Service Manual

    2. Turn off all the mainline switches of the expansion cabinet. In case that the power cabinet connected for the dual power feed option, also turn off all the mainline switches of the power cabinet. SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP Version 1041 • October 2007...
  • Page 25: Led Error Display

    The following information supersedes the information in the SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Site Planning Guide. Cooling (Air-Conditioning) Requirements This is to correct the description in the SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Site Planning Guide, Section 2.3.1, "Cooling (Air-Conditioning) Requirements." SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Product Notes...
  • Page 26 4 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. SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP Version 1041 • October 2007...
  • Page 27: Circuit Breaker Capacity Of Customer Panel Board

    Circuit Breaker Capacity of Customer Panel Board This is to correct the description in the SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Site Planning Guide, Section 2.4.2.1, "Circuit Breaker Capacity of Customer Panel Board." TABLE 2-9 Circuit Breaker Capacity of Customer Panel Board...
  • Page 28: Software Issues

    XSCF Unit, then use the flashupdate flashupdate command might later report an command again to clear the internal error. internal error. SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP Version 1041 • October 2007...
  • Page 29 "Running" when the domain is actually at "ok" prompt. RTIF1- The latest communication field in Disabling and re-enabling archiving refreshes 070904-004 showarchiving is not updated regularly. the Latest communication field in showarchiving output. SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Product Notes...
  • Page 30 • The CLI can also be aborted by ^C. Note that the operation (disabling emailreport) is completed, even if ^C is used. • showemailreport can be used to confirm that the service has been disabled. SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP Version 1041 • October 2007...
  • Page 31: Solaris Issues And Workarounds

    This message can be safely ignored. ipsec_check_inbound_policy: Policy Failure for the incoming packet (not secure) 6441349 The system may hang if there is an I/O error in None available at this time. the system. SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Product Notes...
  • Page 32 Dual Gigabit Ethernet Adapter UTP card, do not install the Solaris using either of these cards. Instead, use other network devices, such as the onboard Gigabit Ethernet or another network device. SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP Version 1041 • October 2007...
  • Page 33 Check CPU status on XSCF. displayed on console when many correctable error(CE) occurs. 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 SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Product Notes...
  • Page 34 Unexpected error messages may be displayed This message can be safely ignored. on console after changing the system configuration. Example: WARNING: Translation error source /LSB0/B0/0, PA 3c000000000, target /LSB0/B0/20000000 SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP Version 1041 • October 2007...
  • Page 35 = 0x2001 6527781 The cfgadm command fails while moving the There is no workaround. To reconfigure DVD/DAT drive between two domains. DVD/Tape drive, execute reboot -r from the domain exhibiting the problem. SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Product Notes...
  • Page 36 300 # svccfg -s volfs setprop start/timeout_seconds=count: 300 svc:/system/filesystem/volfs:defaul t: Method or service exit timed # svcadm refresh dscp out. Killing contract 59. # svcadm refresh volfs SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP Version 1041 • October 2007...
  • Page 37 Solaris OS via the network. • X4447A-Z/X4447A-Z, PCIe Quad-port Gigabit Ethernet Adapter UTP This defect does not exist in Solaris 10 8/07. • X1027A-Z/X1027A-Z, PCIe Dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber XFP SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Product Notes...
  • Page 38 Fibre Channel HBA • SG-XPCIE1FC-QF4, 4Gb PCI-e Single-Port Fibre Channel HBA • SG-XPCI2FC-QF4, 4Gb PCI-X Dual-Port Fibre Channel HBA • SG-XPCI1FC-QF4, 4Gb PCI-X Single-Port Fibre Channel HBA SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP Version 1041 • October 2007...
  • Page 39 Add the following line in /etc/system and to cause data corruption in stress test under reboot: laboratory conditions: • X4447A-Z, PCI-e Quad-port Gigabit set nxge:nxge_rx_threshold_hi=0 Ethernet Adapter UTP • X1027A-Z1, PCI-e Dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber XFP Low profile Adapter SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Product Notes...
  • Page 40 Fiber XFP Low profile Adapter 6592302 Unsuccessful DR operation leaves memory To recover, add the board back to the domain partially configured. with the addboard command, then retry the deleteboard command. SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP Version 1041 • October 2007...
  • Page 41: Identifying Permanent Memory In A Target Board

    The example shows permanent memory on 00-2, with 1674 MB. If the board includes permanent memory, when you execute the deleteboard command or the moveboard command, the following notice appears: System may be temporarily suspended, proceed? [y|n]: SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Product Notes...
  • Page 42: Software Documentation Updates

    The following are the audit classes and their values: ACS_SYSTEM ACS_WRITE ACS_READ ACS_LOGIN ACS_AUDIT ACS_DOMAIN ACS_USER ACS_PLATFORM ACS_MODES SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP Version 1041 • October 2007...
  • Page 43 1. Stop the vold(1M) daemon by disabling the volfs service. # /usr/sbin/svcadm disable volfs 2. Execute the DR operation. 3. Restart the vold(1M) daemon by enabling the volfs service. # /usr/sbin/svcadm enable volfs For details, see the vold(1M) Solaris man page. SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Product Notes...
  • Page 44 SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Product Notes for XCP Version 1041 • October 2007...

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