SPARC Enterprise M4000/M5000 Servers Product Notes 3
Known Issues
This section describes known issues in this release.
General Functionality Issues and Limitations
■ Because the term, admin, will be reserved for the system use in next version of
XCP, please avoid using it to user account name. If you use the term, admin, to
user account name, you have to delete it before upgrading the XCP.
■ Dynamic Reconfiguration (DR) is not recommended in cases below, due to the
following restrictions on the DR addboard(8), deleteboard(8), and moveboard
(8) commands. Please contact your Sales representative or Technical Support for
additional information and software support.
■ The target board (SB/XSB) with optional I/O cards because of some restrictions
on specific cards.
Caution – Use of DR in an unsupported configuration might result in a domain
panic or might hang the system.
■ Domains using the ZFS file system can not use Reconfiguration.
■ PCI Hotplug feature is not available for this release.
Please contact your sales representative or technical support for additional
information and software support.
■ SPARC Enterprise M4000/M5000 servers are cold service machines. Hot-swapping
of the CPU/Memory board unit (CMU), I/O Unit (IOU), or any eXtended System
Control Facility (XSCF) unit is not supported.
■ The XSCF web browser interface, also known as the browser user interface (BUI),
has limited availability in this release. It can be used for importing the XSCF
firmware and it supports the snapshot(8) command Full log set collection
function. 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.
■ In this release, to conduct the maintenance work of COD board, it is necessary to
power off the system.
■ For 1027A-Z/X1027A-Z, PCIe Dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber XFP cards, these
limits apply:
■ Do not use more than two cards per domain.
■ Do not use these cards in an External I/O Expansion Unit.
