Server panic after installing Oracle FCoE CNA cards in Solaris 10 M5000 server

Asset ID:	1-72-1505856.1
Update Date:	2015-03-25
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Solution 1505856.1 : Server panic after installing Oracle FCoE CNA cards in Solaris 10 M5000 server

Applies to:

Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 Server - Version All Versions and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

Server panic with following messages:
- Fatal error has occured in: PCIe fabric.(0x1)(0x41)
- fma SUNW-MSG-ID: SUNOS-8000-0G
- CNA card messages:
WARNING: qlc(2): failed to initialize adapter
WARNING: qlc(0): failed to initialize adapter

Changes

Installation of 2 new
SG-XPCIEFCOE2-Q-TA 375-3682 Dual 10-Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express LP SFP+ FCoE CNA cards

Cause

Installation of 2 new
SG-XPCIEFCOE2-Q-TA 375-3682 Dual 10-Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express LP SFP+ FCoE CNA cards
into a
SPARC Enterprise M5000 Server
OBP 4.33.5.a 2012/01/13 15:05
Solaris 10 10/09 s10s_u8wos_08a SPARC
without required/minimum patches 143957-03 and 144486-03

Listed in following documentation and issue was resolved by installing the patches.

Sun Storage 10GbE FCoE PCIe Converged Network Adapter Installation Guide For Adapter
Models SG-XPCIEFCOE2-Q-SR, SG-PCIEFCOE2-Q-SR, SG-XPCIEFCOE2-Q-TA, and SG-PCIEFCOE2-Q-TA

SG-XPCIEFCOE2-Q-SR/7053422 375-3681
SG-XPCIEFCOE2-Q-TA/7053423 375-3682
both
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19613-01/pdf/E20763.pdf

Solution

Install required/minimum patches per installation guide when installing FCoe CNA cards in any server.

References

<NOTE:1282491.1> - How to Identify Oracle[TM] Branded Fibre Channel (FC) HBA, CNA/FCoE and Universal 16GB HBA Cards and Their Slot Locations

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