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Sun Blade X6240 Server Module Product Notes

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SP Event Log Generates Excessive Critical Events

Minor and/or informational events are classified as critical, which generate useless
email alerts.

Fix Available:

Fix is available with BIOS 1.20.

Delaying BIOS Upgrade During Firmware Update
Can Corrupt BIOS

The ILOM SP firmware upgrade procedure includes the

Delay BIOS Update

option, which delays the BIOS update until the host is reset. This option allows you
to update the firmware without resetting the host.

The following scenarios can cause your BIOS to corrupt:

■

If you select the

Delay BIOS Update

option, then power down the host and

remove the server module from its slot before the BIOS update is complete.

■

If you select the

Delay BIOS Update

option, then power down the host and

power on the server module immediately before the BIOS update is complete.

■

If you start another SP firmware update before the BIOS update has been
completed.

Workaround:

Do not select the

Delay BIOS Update

option. If you choose to use the

Delay

BIOS Update

option:

1. Do not remove the server module from its slot until after the host has been reset

and the BIOS update is complete.

2. If you are powering off the system for the first time after ILOM is upgraded, do

not power on the host until the BIOS update is complete.

3. Do not attempt to update the SP firmware until after the host has been reset and

the BIOS update is complete.

Note –

The BIOS update after host power-off might take 3-4 minutes.

Summary of Contents for Sun Blade X6240

Page 1: ...Sun Blade X6240 Server Module Product Notes Version 2 2 0 Part No E40223 01 Part No April 2013 ...

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Page 3: ... 4 Latest Firmware Updates on page 4 Newly Supported Features on page 5 Documentation Issues on page 6 Hardware and BIOS Issues on page 7 Sun Installation Assistant Issues on page 12 Integrated Lights Out Manager Issues on page 16 Diagnostics Issues on page 21 Operating System Issues on page 22 Solaris Issues on page 23 Linux Issues on page 24 Windows Issues on page 29 Sun StorageTek RAID Expansio...

Page 4: ...ed operating systems for the Sun Blade X6240 server module Solaris x86 10 05 08 64 bit Solaris x86 10 10 08 64 bit Solaris x86 10 05 09 64 bit OpenSolaris 2009 06 Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 4 6 and later 32 bit 64 bit RHEL 5 1 and later 64 bit Suse Linux Enterprise Server SLES 9 SP4 64 bit Not supported in SIA 2 3 8 SLES 10 SP2 64 bit SLES 11 64 bit VMware ESXi 5 1 Windows Server 2003 Enterpris...

Page 5: ...0 Getting Started Guide 820 5523 Sun Integrated Lights Out Manager ILOM 3 0 Feature Updates and Release Notes 820 7329 Sun Integrated Lights Out Manager ILOM 3 0 Concepts Guide 820 6410 Sun Integrated Lights Out Manager ILOM 3 0 Web Interface Procedures Guide 820 6411 Sun Integrated Lights Out Manager ILOM 3 0 CLI Procedures Guide 820 6412 Sun Integrated Lights Out Manager ILOM 3 0 SMNP and IPMI P...

Page 6: ...ion CD Used to create a reburn CD W2K3 CD with all required drivers the readme text file is located in cd_drive utilities reburn readme txt Note This utility can be performed on a Windows based system or a Linux Solaris based system Windows Autorun menu Simply insert the Tools Drivers DVD into the X6240 USB CD DVD or mount it via ILOM remote KVMS Then perform any of the following operations Instal...

Page 7: ...e the ILOM 3 0 Documentation Collection and the associated ILOM Supplement for the Sun Blade X6240 server module Sun Integrated Lights Out Manager ILOM 3 0 Getting Started Guide 820 5523 Sun Integrated Lights Out Manager ILOM 3 0 Feature Updates and Release Notes 820 7329 Sun Integrated Lights Out Manager ILOM 3 0 Concepts Guide 820 6410 Sun Integrated Lights Out Manager ILOM 3 0 Web Interface Pro...

Page 8: ... Integrated Lights Out Manager ILOM 3 0 Feature Updates and Release Notes 820 7329 Sun ILOM Power Management The Sun Blade X6240 server module supports Sun ILOM power management features Sun ILOM power management features enable you to monitor and manage your system s power consumption For more information and instructions for using ILOM power management features see the Sun Integrated Lights Out ...

Page 9: ...Drivers CD Main menu by selecting Software and Driver Installation Install LSI 3081E drivers and Mgmt Software Step 3 The installation application name is of the form setup exe Chapter 8 Using MegaRAID Storage Manager To Start the MSM RAID Configuration Wizard Step 1 You can use the Menu bar to access the RAID configuration wizard by choosing Operations Configuration Config Wizard Changing Virtual...

Page 10: ...itool persistent boot order change command on page 11 BIOS does not accept the ipmitool clear CMOS command on page 11 Certain devices boot option ROM fails to load on page 11 NEM model X4238 requires latest BIOS firmware on page 11 BIOS 1 19 Causes Microsoft Windows to Blue Screen During OS Install During the Installing Devices portion phase 2 of the MS Windows install BIOS 1 19 causes the HBA por...

Page 11: ...it until the DHCP server is online before attempting to reboot Issuing a reboot or manually changing from DHCP to a static IP address will result in incorrect gateway and IP address settings to be recorded Once DHCP is restored the original IP address will be assigned Workaround Do not reboot the server until DHCP is restored or connect a terminal to the serial console s NET Management port and ma...

Page 12: ... illuminate System hang during USB initialization When inserting the dongle cable in to the server module the system might hang during universal serial bus USB initialization Workaround Remove and reinsert the dongle cable into the server module Blade server module fails to link up at 1GbE If the Sun Blade X6240 server module is inserted into certain slots in the Sun Blade 6048 chassis it fails to...

Page 13: ...around This issue is fixed in the Tools Drivers DVD 1 3 and later software release Certain devices boot option ROM fails to load A shadow ROM space issue exists when multiple bootable devices are installed in the system Not all devices bootable option ROMs will successfully load Workaround This issue is fixed in the Tools Drivers DVD 1 3 and later software release Users will have the option to sel...

Page 14: ...d using SIA reports a MPT Fusion ctl drivers error on page 14 SIA displays ILOM version as Unknown on page 14 SIA displays incorrect chassis information on page 14 SIA does not display storage controllers on page 15 SIA displays error when installing using PXE method on page 15 SIA Update function fails on page 15 SIA does not install operating systems via PXE server on page 15 LVM partitioning is...

Page 15: ...d None SIA will not install FEM NEM drivers for 32 bit Linux operating systems Change Request ID 676068 Model x1029A fabric express module FEM and model x4236A network express module NEM drivers will not install correctly when installing Linux such as RHEL 32 bit and SLES 10 32 bit using SIA Workaround None SIA will not install FEM drivers for Windows 2003 Change Request ID 6769562 If SIA is used ...

Page 16: ...ne This issue will be fixed in future software release SIA displays ILOM version as Unknown Change Request ID 6878691 When installing the Linux operating system using SIA version 2 3 8 the ILOM version is displayed as Unknown in the System Information screen This issue will be fixed in future software release SIA displays incorrect chassis information Change Request ID 6878692 When installing the ...

Page 17: ...wing error message while SIA is determining the OS Provide a valid URL This message can be ignored The OS installation will complete successfully This issue will be fixed in future software release SIA Update function fails Change Request ID 6875404 When selecting the SIA Update function in SIA 2 3 8 SIA might display the following error message SIA update failed This issue will be fixed in future...

Page 18: ...ers on page 18 No warning when password length is exceeded on page 18 Running Pc Check in manual mode fails to unmount the virtual floppy on page 18 KVMS authentication does not work with remote authentication mechanisms on page 19 Solaris Remote Console session requires Java plugin on page 19 Service processor might take up to 3 minutes to start on page 20 Error message appears during service pro...

Page 19: ...emove the server module from its slot before the BIOS update is complete If you select the Delay BIOS Update option then power down the host and power on the server module immediately before the BIOS update is complete If you start another SP firmware update before the BIOS update has been completed Workaround Do not select the Delay BIOS Update option If you choose to use the Delay BIOS Update op...

Page 20: ... the web interface Workaround This issue is scheduled to be fixed in a future ILOM firmware release Running Pc Check in manual mode fails to unmount the virtual floppy The virtual floppy device fails to unmount when running Pc Check in manual mode This causes the system to run Pc Check on every system reboot Workaround 1 Set SP diag to disabled 2 Power off the system 3 Power on the system TABLE 2 ...

Page 21: ...efault application or If you are logged in as a user not root do the following 1 Choose the option to save the file 2 Download the javaRKVM jnlp file and run it manually The download manager will display the location of this file 3 Move the javaRKVM jnlp file to the tmp directory mv location_of_javaRKVM JNLP javaRKVM JNLP tmp Where location_of_javaRKVM JNLP is the directory where javaRKVM JNLP res...

Page 22: ...ervice processor SP startup Mike driver insmod cannot insert lib modules 2 6 15 4 misc mtd_mike mike ko No such device 1 No such device modprobe failed to load module mike This issue is being investigated It is safe to ignore this message FRU data for the hard disk drives is not passed via ipmitool FRU data for the hard disk drives HDD is not passed via ipmitool For example the following error mes...

Page 23: ...FRU data For example DDRII 800 MHz DIMMs are listed only as 444 MHz DIMMs in the FRU data This is a FRU data discrepancy and it does not impact memory and system performance Workaround This issue is scheduled to be fixed in a future ILOM firmware release Diagnostics Issues This section contains the following Pc Check Diagnostics Software Issues on page 21 Hard disk information is unknown on page 2...

Page 24: ...This occurs because the test fails to read written bytes at various baud rates when the system is under heavy stress Workaround Run the SunVTS I O port test in standalone or in component mode Operating System Issues This section contains the following Solaris Issues on page 23 Warning message might appear during startup on page 23 Solaris OS installation halts during the installation on page 23 Li...

Page 25: ...n Blade X6240 is delivered with a preinstalled Solaris OS This OS is set by default to be redirected through the serial console connection ttya To change this to local monitor keyboard use the GRUB menu at boot time and select the VGA option Warning message might appear during startup When using a compact flash device the following warning message might appear during Solaris startup WARNING pci 0 ...

Page 26: ...Server Module Product Notes April 2013 Linux Issues The following issue applies to Sun Blade X6240 server modules running the supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL or SUSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES operating systems ...

Page 27: ... 1 The following error is generated when a USB device is inserted in the USB ports on the Sun Blade X6240 server module usb 1 2 device not accepting address 2 error 71 This is a RHEL 5 1 issue Workaround You must manually create a new initrd img file in your current installation 1 Open a terminal window 2 Navigate to the boot directory cd boot 3 Rename the initrd img file by typing the command mv ...

Page 28: ...his message IGB error message might appear The following IGB error message might appear in dmesg igb 0000 84 00 1 igb_set_interrupt_capability Failed to initialize MSI X interrupts Failing back to MSI interrupts igb 0000 84 00 1 igb_set_interrupt_capability Failed to initialize MSI interrupts Failing back to legacy interrupts Both onboard Intel 82575EB network interface cards NICs are still functi...

Page 29: ...nt of memory can be used Information about this kernel update and how to download it is available at http support novell com techcenter psdb 436375e56cfcb119e5e4 2c29cf234297 html Error messages might appear in SLES 10 OS dmesg The following error messages might appear in the SLES 10 SP2 64 bit OS dmesg Evaluate _OSC Set fails Status 0x0005 aer_init AER service init fails No ACPI_OSC support aer p...

Page 30: ...ller network interface card NIC drivers on the Sun Blade X6240 server module Tools Drivers DVD do not work with the SLES11 operating system This issue is being investigated USB devices are not recognized in RHEL 4 7 The RHEL 4 7 operating system does not recognize USB 2 0 devices This causes the OS installations that use a USB DVD ROM or ILOM remote KVMS device to fail More details and a fix for t...

Page 31: ...nstallation of Linux OSes RHEL or SLES will fail with certain FC PEMs in SW 2 1 0 Workaround Please do not upgrade to software 2 1 0 if your system is to run with a Windows or Linux operating system and equipped with one of the following FC PEMs SG XPCIE2FCGBE E Z SG XPCIE2FCGBE Q Z SG XPCIE2FC EB4 Z SG XPCIE2FC QB4 Z Fix This will be fixed in Software Release 2 2 0 Windows Autorun does not instal...

Page 32: ...This occurs because the BIOS sets the virtual floppy as the first top USB bootable device Workaround 1 During system boot press F2 to enter the BIOS Setup Utility 2 From the Boot USB devices menu change the device boot order to set the virtual CDROM as the first top USB bootable device Sun StorageTek RAID Expansion Module REM Issues Use the StorageTek BIOS setup utility Before the operating system...

Page 33: ...ce at the end of the hard disk drive if you want to upgrade to a mirrored RAID configuration Upgrade path for data merging The only upgrade path that supports data merging is from a single disk to a mirror This is a limitation of the LSI card If you want to upgrade from a single disk to an IME Integrated Mirror Extension or an IMS Integrated Mirror Stripe the data and OS will be lost and a reinsta...

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