Fujitsu SPARC ENTERPRISE T5120 User Manual

SPARC® EnterpriseT5120 and T5220 ServersProduct NotesOrder No. U41752-J-Z816-1-76Part No. 875-4197-10October 2007, Revision

x SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers Product Notes • October 2007Documentation Errata 48

1Important Information About the SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 ServersThese product notes contain important and late-breaking information about the

2 SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers Product Notes • October 2007Technical SupportIf you have technical questions or issues that are not address

Important Information About the SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers 3 System firmware 7.0.3, which includes Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM)

4 SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers Product Notes • October 2007The following table lists the software preinstalled on your server.The followin

Important Information About the SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers 5http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/overview/cooltools.jspNot all of the

6 SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers Product Notes • October 2007Solaris Live UpgradeSolaris Live Upgrade technology significantly reduces servi

Important Information About the SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers 7The following patches are required for your server:Note – Before contacting

8 SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers Product Notes • October 2007For example, if patch 119578-16 or later is installed, your system has the requ

Important Information About the SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers 9 Solaris Volume Manager (attached to Solaris OS) LDOM Manager The SPARC Ent

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10 SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers Product Notes • October 2007Unexpected LED BehaviorThere is a LED behavior that occurs when you create a v

Important Information About the SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers 11Workaround: Use the virtual-console as the input device.Inconsistent Consol

12 SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers Product Notes • October 2007Though no error or fault is reported, it is easy to identify due to the fact t

Important Information About the SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers 13Panic in nxge_start When dupb Fails (CR 6567838)If jumbo frames are enabled

14 SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers Product Notes • October 20071. Jumbo frame is enabled because the following line is present and not commen

Important Information About the SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers 15Workaround: If jumbo frame is to be enabled, set the MTU to 8172 by doing t

16 SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers Product Notes • October 2007Physical-Platform Information Missing From prtpicl and prtdiag (CR 6586624)The

Important Information About the SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers 17Workaround: Reboot the system by dropping to the service processor (SP) and

18 SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers Product Notes • October 2007The following formatting issues could be displayed in the prtdiag -v command o

Important Information About the SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers 19In the ILOM CLI, to set the locator LED to on or off:prtdiag -v Voltage Ind

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20 SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers Product Notes • October 2007Firmware and General Software IssuesIPMI Chassis Power Cycle Does Not Always W

Important Information About the SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers 21Workaround: Use Auto-Negotiation to set the Link Speed/Duplex. For example,

22 SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers Product Notes • October 2007The following is an example of dumping the event:These events are harmless and

Important Information About the SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers 23rm-io Followed by Multiple set-vcpu Operations Could Cause HV Abort or ldmd

24 SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers Product Notes • October 2007It is usually not necessary to unload a driver from a running kernel, but in t

Important Information About the SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers 25When Either NIU Port in the N2 CPU is Disabled the Corresponding XAUI is Co

26 SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers Product Notes • October 2007Workaround: Add the following setting to the /etc/system file.mpt Handles SMAR

Important Information About the SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers 27ldc_skt and ds Might Not Handle LDC Resets Properly (CR 6583567)Very rarely

28 SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers Product Notes • October 2007ID 216524 daemon.error Registration With DMI Failederr = 831 (CR 6237994)Regis

Important Information About the SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers 29After the control domain recovers, there is a diagnosis performed. Messages

30 SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers Product Notes • October 2007Unable to Remove RAID 1 Volume After RAID 1 and RAID 0 Volumes Are Created (CR

Important Information About the SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers 31OpenBoot PROM Banner Shows the Same Memory Number After Disabling a DIMM an

32 SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers Product Notes • October 2007 When running in a factory-default configuration, variable updates specified

Important Information About the SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers 33A common way to encounter this error is if you left off the = sign when usi

34 SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers Product Notes • October 20071. The system is booted in the factory-default configuration.2. The user chan

Important Information About the SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers 35The system will continue to boot, but in a degraded state. During the boot

36 SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers Product Notes • October 2007Use fmdump -eV -u uuid with the UUID from the console message to determine if

Important Information About the SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers 37Workaround: If system fails to boot because of this problem, retry it.Proce

38 SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers Product Notes • October 2007Missing CPU Cores and Strands Shown in PICL Physical-Platform Tree (CR 6596503

Important Information About the SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers 39Where MSGID is one of the PSH Message ID's listed above and displayed

vContentsImportant Information About the SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers1Support for the SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers 1Technical

40 SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers Product Notes • October 2007Use setdefaults Command to Clear Last POST Run From showfaults (CR 6573354)Aft

Important Information About the SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers 41uadmin 2 0 and reboot Reads Old Bootmode Settings (CR 6585340) You can chan

42 SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers Product Notes • October 2007ALOM CMT Compatibility CLI Displays Incorrect Guest Status Sent From OpenBoot

Important Information About the SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers 43The following is sample output of sending a break to the Solaris host from

44 SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers Product Notes • October 20073. Enter the break command as follows.Log back into the Solaris host with the

Important Information About the SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers 45Intermittent Issue With netsc commit and showsc Hang (CR 6549028)The netsc_

46 SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers Product Notes • October 2007If you run consolehistory -e with a value greater than 1000 lines, you could e

Important Information About the SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers 47Cleanup Output Display When Resetting ILOM (CR 6585292)Some extraneous and

48 SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers Product Notes • October 2007Documentation ErrataTable 2-6 on page 43 of the SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T52

vi SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers Product Notes • October 2007RAID Function 8LDOM Manager 9Hardware and Mechanical Issues 9DVD and USB Modul

Contents viiprtdiag -v Voltage Indicators Section Has Non-Voltage Indicators (CR 6587380) 19prtdiag -v Slow To Respond on 1U (CR 6588550) 19Control-C

viii SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers Product Notes • October 2007Domain ETM and LDC Deadlock When Transmit Queue Full (CR 6594506) 28raidctl

Contents ixIf Socketed EEProm (SCC) is Changed, SP Does Not Always Read Some SP Properties From New EEProm (CR 6596430) 39If All Platform Identity Che