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Preface 

Solaris™ Operating System is described as Solaris OS in this manual. 

Purpose 

This manual provides information and notes for installing the software on SPARC Enterprise servers. 

Intended Readers 

This manual is intended for system administrators who install Solaris OS and administrate the systems. 

Readers are expected to have the basic knowledge of a system administrator. 

Organization 

This manual is organized as follows: 

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Chapter 1 Before installing Solaris OS 

This chapter describes information to confirm before installing. 

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Chapter 2 Notes when installing Solaris OS 

This chapter describes notes when installing Solaris OS. 

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Chapter 3 Operation after Installation 

This chapter describes operations required after installing. 

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Chapter 4 Notes on Solaris OS operation 

This chapter describes notes on Solaris OS operation. 

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Chapter 5 Bug information and notes 

This chapter describes bug information and notes about Solaris OS. 

Related manuals 

The documentation set for SPARC Enterprise servers is available on the following website: 

Global Site 

http://www.fujitsu.com/global/services/computing/server/sparcenterprise/downloads/manual/ 

Japanese Site 

http://primeserver.fujitsu.com/sparcenterprise/catalog/manual/ 

Text Conventions 

This manual uses the following fonts and symbols to express specific types of information. 

Fonts/Symbols Meaning 

Example 

AaBbCc123 

Commands that users enter. 

#

 ls -l 

<Return>

 

Prompt Notations 

The prompt notations used in this manual are as follows. 

Shell Prompt 

Notations 

XSCF

 

XSCF

C shell 

machine-name% 

C shell super user 

machine-name# 

Bourne shell and Korn shell 

Bourne shell and Korn shell super user 

OpenBoot PROM 

ok 

 

High Risk Activity 

This Product is designed, developed and manufactured as contemplated for general use, including without 

limitation, general office use, personal use, household use, and ordinary industrial use, but is not designed, 

developed and manufactured as contemplated for use accompanying fatal risks or dangers that, unless 

extremely high safety is secured, could lead directly to death, personal injury, severe physical damage or 

other loss (hereinafter “High Safety Required Use”), including without limitation, nuclear reaction control 

in nuclear facility, aircraft flight control, air traffic control, mass transport control, medical life support 

Summary of Contents for B23Q8WD-G-01-J

Page 1: ...B23Q8WD G 01 J SPARC Enterprise Servers Hardware Platform Guide for Solaris Operating System ...

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Page 3: ...Global Site http www fujitsu com global services computing server sparcenterprise downloads manual Japanese Site http primeserver fujitsu com sparcenterprise catalog manual Text Conventions This manual uses the following fonts and symbols to express specific types of information Fonts Symbols Meaning Example AaBbCc123 Commands that users enter ls l Return Prompt Notations The prompt notations used...

Page 4: ... registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems Inc in the United States and other countries All SPARC trademarks are used under license from SPARC International Inc and are trademarks or registered trademarks of that company in the U S and other countries Products with the SPARC trademark are based on architecture developed by Sun Microsystems Inc All other products or company names mentioned in this ...

Page 5: ...FRU could be reported 6 Chapter 4 Notes on Solaris OS operation 9 4 1 Enter the OpenBoot environment 9 4 2 CD ROM DVD ROM in UNIX file system UFS format 9 4 3 TTYA port of SPARC Enterprise T1000 T2000 T5120 T5140 T5220 T5240 servers 9 4 4 The order of instance numbers of optional cards 9 4 5 Changing of operation mode of on board network interface e1000g on SPARC Enterprise T2000 T5120 T5220 serve...

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Page 7: ...han 128Gbytes Greater than 4Gbytes 128Gbytes and less than 256Gbytes Greater than 8Gbytes SPARC Enterprise Servers T1000 T2000 T5120 T5140 T5220 T5240 M3000 M4000 M 5000 M8000 M9000 256Gbytes and greater than 256Gbytes Greater than 6 percent of physical memory Note A greater amount of swap space may be required for the memory image depending on how the system has been used at the time of the syste...

Page 8: ...aris 10 OS 5 08 or later 5 This is required only when Dynamic Reconfiguration is used 6 This is no longer required in Solaris 10 OS 10 08 or later 4 Apply the latest Recommended Security Patch Cluster for Solaris 10 OS The latest Recommended Security Patch Cluster contains mandatory patches for SPARC Enterprise servers and important modifications 5 If Enhanced Support Facility comes with SPARC Ent...

Page 9: ...essage change the options setting in the kernel drv st conf file so that the bit value 0x4000 is not specified Refer to the following example Before changing the st conf file Tape config list vid pid pretty print data property name data property name 1 0x34 0 0xd639 4 0x00 0x8c 0x8c 0x8c 3 After changing the st conf file Tape config list vid pid pretty print data property name data property name 1...

Page 10: ...em Specify a different NFSv4 domain 2 4 Selection of keyboard layout You may be prompted to select the keyboard layout during installation since Solaris 10 OS 8 07 If no keyboard is connected select the default value US English and continue the installation Configure Keyboard Layout Please specify the keyboard layout from the list below To make a selection use the arrow keys to highlight the optio...

Page 11: ...default is 1 autoup Specifies the time by second at which fsflush daemon scans whole memory Increasing the value of autoup keeps the buffers around for a longer time in memory The default is 30 If tune_t_fsflushr is too large then amount of memory fsflush examines at a time will be large too So the default value is recommended In the case of a system with more than 32 Gbytes of memory fsflush migh...

Page 12: ... follow the procedure below to add the DVD Drive Unit and TAPE Drive Unit to a domain or remove the DVD Drive Unit and TAPE Drive Unit from a domain 1 Use the shutdown 1M command to go to the ok prompt shutdown i0 y g0 Return 2 Use the cfgdevice 8 command of XSCF for the operation For more details refer to SPARC Enterprise M3000 M4000 M5000 M8000 M9000 Servers XSCF Reference Manual 3 3 Wrong I O d...

Page 13: ...rmation and software support SUNW MSG ID SUNOS 8000 1L TYPE Defect VER 1 SEVERITY Minor EVENT TIME Sun May 6 18 22 24 PDT 2007 PLATFORM SUNW SPARC Enterprise CSN BE80601007 HOSTNAME col2 ff em7 d0 SOURCE eft REV 1 16 EVENT ID cbfc5646 ce37 e504 f4d4 ff3a41bd415b DESC The EFT Diagnosis Engine encountered telemetry for which it is unable to produce a diagnosis This may indicate an incomplete EFT fil...

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Page 15: ...produced for the Solaris OS Even if the file system in such a CD ROM DVD ROM is in UFS format its file construction may differ from that of a Solaris system If such a CD ROM DVD ROM is used serious problems including a system crash may occur 4 3 TTYA port of SPARC Enterprise T1000 T2000 T5120 T5140 T5220 T5240 servers TTYA port is used only for standard serial device Console of the Solaris OS is n...

Page 16: ...iation enable function If you need to change the operation mode of e1000g by the ndd 1M command refer to the following Please note that the procedure of disabling auto negotiation and mode of operation of e1000g driver by ndd 1M is incompatible with other drivers Set up procedure is as follows ndd set dev e1000g instance number adv_autoneg_cap 0 Return ndd set dev e1000g instance number force_spee...

Page 17: ...cribed in this section z Target Host Bus Adaptor XSEFC401AF XSEFC402AF XSEFC401AU XSEFC402AU 4 7 1 I O Performance Due to Solaris specification sufficient read performance may not be achieved when 4Gbps supported disk array unit is connected Reference values Write performance Approximately 365Mbyte sec Read performance Approximately 180Mbyte sec These are actual values measured by Fujitsu Note tha...

Page 18: ...T5140 T5240 server Installing a 10GbE XFP XAUI Adapter Card XAUI card in slot 0 disables onboard network port 1 NET1 Installing a XAUI card in slot 1 disables on board network port 0 NET0 For more information refer to SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 Servers Product Notes ...

Page 19: ...s psradm command to disable the excess CPU threads For example disable all oddnumbered CPU threads This problem has been resolved by the following patch After applying it the workaround is no longer needed 120011 14 or later SunOS 5 10 kernel patch System performance can degrade using a single NIC card with more than 5 000 connections 2 6416224 Use multiple NIC cards to split network connections T...

Page 20: ...atch If you create a Solaris Flash archive on a non SPARC Enterprise Mx000 sun4u server and install it on a SPARC Enterprise M8000 M9000 sun4u server the console s TTY flags will not be set correctly This can cause the console to lose characters during stress 9 6472153 Telnet into the SPARC Enterprise Mx000 server to reset the console s TTY flags as follows sttydefs r console sttydefs a console i ...

Page 21: ...s problem has been resolved by the following patch After applying it the workaround is no longer needed 125369 10 or later SunOS 5 10 Fault Manager patch CPU isn t offlined and unexpected message is 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 BE806010...

Page 22: ...CSI Card SE0X7SC2F SE0X7SC2X is mounted correctable errors CE occur and system may panic 20 6510861 If you install the Dual Channel Ultra320 SCSI Card SE0X7SC2F SE0X7SC2X change the value of pcie pcie_aer_ce_mask to 0x31c1 since 0x2001 has been set to pcie pcie_aer_ce_mask as a workaround against CR 6508432 To mask these errors with Dual Channel Ultra320 SCSI Card SE0X7SC2F SE0X7SC2X add the follo...

Page 23: ...xit status 95 svc system filesystem volfs default Method or service exit timed out Killing contract 59 26 6532215 Restart the service if the failure is observed To avoid the problem issue the following commands svccfg s dscp setprop start timeout_seconds count 300 svccfg s volfs setprop start timeout_seconds count 300 svcadm refresh dscp svcadm refresh volfs Domain may panic 27 6534471 6718173 Add...

Page 24: ... FRU could be reported This problem has been resolved by the following patch After applying it the workaround is no longer needed 125369 05 or later SunOS 5 10 Fault Manager patch The following unexpected error message may be notified on SPARC Enterprise T1000 T2000 servers with Solaris OS 8 07 installed Sep 19 12 14 57 xxxx ldc ID xxxxxx kern warning WARNING ldc cannot negotiate hypervisor LDC se...

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