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    Sun Microsystems, Inc. www .sun.com Submit comments about this document by clic king the Feedbac k[+] link at: http://docs.sun.com Sun Blade ™ X6440 Ser v er Module Product Notes V ersion 2.0 P ar t No . 820-3965-15, Rev . A Nov ember 2009[...]

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    Please Recycle Copyright © 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc., 4150 Network Cir cle, Santa Clara, California 95054, U.S.A. All rights reserved. Sun Microsystems, Inc. has intellectual pr operty rights relating to technology embodied in the product that is described in this document. In particular , and without limitation, these intellectual property righ[...]

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    1 Sun Blade X6440 Server Module Pr oduct Notes This document contains late-breaking information and issues for the Sun Blade™ X6440 server module. The following is covered in these pr oduct notes: ■ “General Information” on page 2 ■ “Sun Blade X6440 Server Module T ools & Drivers DVD” on page 4 ■ “Latest Firmware Updates” on[...]

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    2 Sun Blade X6440 Server Module Product Notes • November 2009 General Information Support and Patches for Sun Blade Server Modules Support information for the Sun Blade X6440 server module is available at: http://sunsolve.sun.com Supported Operating Systems The following is a list of the minimum versions of supported operating systems for the Sun[...]

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    Sun Blade X6440 Server Module Product Notes 3 Documentation Support documentation for the Sun Blade X6440 server module: ■ Sun Blade X6440 Server Module Installation Guide (820-3961) ■ Sun Blade X6440 Server Module Product Notes (820-3965) ■ Sun Blade X6440 Server Module Operating Systems Installation Guide (820-3962) ■ Sun Blade X6440 Serv[...]

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    4 Sun Blade X6440 Server Module Product Notes • November 2009 Sun Blade X6440 Server Module T ools & Drivers DVD The Sun Blade X6440 Server Module T ools & Drivers DVD contains several software applications and utilities for use with your Sun Blade X6440 server module. This section describes the applications and utilities and refers you t[...]

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    Sun Blade X6440 Server Module Product Notes 5 Newly Supported Featur es The following new features are supported as of supplemental softwar e release 2.0: ■ Integrated Lights Out Manager 3.0 ■ Sun ILOM Remote Console Lock ■ Sun ILOM Power Management Integrated Lights Out Manager 3.0 The Sun Blade X6440 server module supports Integrated Lights[...]

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    6 Sun Blade X6440 Server Module Product Notes • November 2009 Sun ILOM Remote Console Lock The Sun Blade X6440 server module supports the Sun ILOM Remote Console lock. The Sun ILOM Remote Console lock feature enhances your system security by enabling you to lock your computer when terminating a Sun ILOM Remote Console session. For more informatio[...]

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    Sun Blade X6440 Server Module Product Notes 7 ILOM BIOS settings issue If ILOM is set to use a DHCP assigned IP address, and the DHCP server is off line, wait until the DHCP server is online before attempting to reboot. Issuing a r eboot or manually changing from DHCP to a static IP addr ess will result in incorrect gateway and IP address settings [...]

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    8 Sun Blade X6440 Server Module Product Notes • November 2009 Blade server module fails to link up at 1GbE If the Sun Blade X6440 server module is inserted into certain slots in the Sun Blade 6048 chassis, it fails to link up at 1GbE with the X5196A-Z Sun Blade 6048 Infiniband Switched Network Express Module (NEM). This issue occurs primarily on [...]

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    Sun Blade X6440 Server Module Product Notes 9 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. W orkaround: This issue is fixed in the T ools & Drivers DVD 1.2 and later software release. Us[...]

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    10 Sun Blade X6440 Server Module Product Notes • November 2009 L VM partitioning is not supported when installing SLES 10 SP2 operating system Change Request ID: 6780100 If L VM disk partitioning is selected when installing the SLES 10 SP2 operating system using SIA, the installation will fail because the platform drivers will not install correct[...]

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    Sun Blade X6440 Server Module Product Notes 11 W orkaround: None SIA will not install FEM drivers for W indows 2003 Change Request ID: 6769562 If SIA is used to install W indows 2003 on a system that contains the model x1029 A FEM, the associated device will be highlighted with a yellow question mark in the W indows Device Manager , indicating that[...]

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    12 Sun Blade X6440 Server Module Product Notes • November 2009 When installing the Linux operating system using SIA version 2.3.8, the System Information screen displays incorrect information for the chassis type, serial number , and version number . This issue will be fixed in future softwar e release. SIA does not display storage contr ollers C[...]

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    Sun Blade X6440 Server Module Product Notes 13 SIA does not install operating systems via PXE server Change Request ID: 6876850 When using SIA version 2.3.8 to install OSes via a PXE server , SIA displays the following error message during the OS installation: Error enabling swap device sda2: Invalid argument This error af fects all OS installation[...]

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    14 Sun Blade X6440 Server Module Product Notes • November 2009 Delaying BIOS Upgrade During Firmwar e Update Can Corrupt BIOS The ILOM SP firmwar e 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 firmwar e without resetting the host. The following [...]

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    Sun Blade X6440 Server Module Product Notes 15 Minimum Supported Br owsers T ABLE 1 shows the minimum supported browser versions for running the Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) web interface for the Sun Blade X6440 server module on Solaris and Linux operating systems. No warning when passwor d length is exceeded No errors or warnings ar e issu[...]

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    16 Sun Blade X6440 Server Module Product Notes • November 2009 ● If you are logged in as root, choose to open the f ile with its default application. –or– ● If you are logged in as a user (not root), do the following: 1. Choose the option to save the f ile. 2. Download the javaRKVM.jnlp f ile and run it manually . The download manager wil[...]

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    Sun Blade X6440 Server Module Product Notes 17 Err or message appears during service pr ocessor startup The following error message may appear during service pr ocessor (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 is[...]

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    18 Sun Blade X6440 Server Module Product Notes • November 2009 Har d disk err or message in the SP event log The following error message might appear in the SP event log when no har d disk is installed. System Firmware Error | Unrecoverable hard-disk controller failure | Asserted W orkaround: It is safe to ignore this err or message. DIMM SPD dat[...]

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    Sun Blade X6440 Server Module Product Notes 19 Hard disk information is unknown When running the Pc-Check hard disk diagnostics, the har d disk information, hard disk firmwar e, and serial number are listed as unknown. Serial port test fails The Pc-Check serial port test fails because Pc-Check does not support the RJ-45 serial port connector . SunV[...]

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    20 Sun Blade X6440 Server Module Product Notes • November 2009 ■ “Only 8 of 16 CPU cores being r eported” on page 22 ■ “Post OS driver update script fails to run” on page 23 ■ “SLES OS driver installation takes a long time to complete” on page 23 ■ “NIC drivers are not supported by SLES1 1 OS” on page 23 ■ “SLES 9 SP4 [...]

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    Sun Blade X6440 Server Module Product Notes 21 This issue is being investigated. Linux Issues The following issue applies to Sun Blade X6440 server modules running the supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) operating systems. USB device err ors reported in Red Hat 5.1 The following error is generated when a[...]

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    22 Sun Blade X6440 Server Module Product Notes • November 2009 3. Insert the PEM in either slot and press the Attn button. The PEM is ready to use when the OK LED turns solid gr een. PCI BIOS error message might appear The following error message might appear when booting or running the dmesg command in RHEL 5.1: PCI: BIOS Bug: MCFG area at e0000[...]

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    Sun Blade X6440 Server Module Product Notes 23 W orkaround: Install and boot from the largesmp kernel version, which can be found in the installation media. Post OS driver update script fails to run The following error message might display when running the post OS driver ( install.sh ) update script: bash ./install.sh: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Pe[...]

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    24 Sun Blade X6440 Server Module Product Notes • November 2009 W orkaround: This issue can be resolved by following these steps: 1. T emporarily limit the memory to less than 4 GB. This can be accomplished by physically removing RAM to reduce it to less than 4 GB. Alternately , you can use a boot parameter to limit the memory that is used by SLES[...]

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    Sun Blade X6440 Server Module Product Notes 25 2. Reboot the system for the changes to take effect. 3. Run Windows Autorun to install drivers. Y ellow question mark might appear in W indows Device Manager A yellow question mark might appear in the W indows Device Manager , denoting that drivers are not installed for the following devices: ■ Sun B[...]

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    26 Sun Blade X6440 Server Module Product Notes • November 2009 LSI RAID Expansion Module (REM) Issues This section contains the following LSI RAID REM issues: ■ “Extra hard disk drive space requir ed when upgrading to a Mirrored RAID configuration” on page 26 ■ “Upgrade path for data merging” on page 26 Extra har d disk drive space r [...]