Sun Blade 8000 Modular System Symptoms and Solutions

Asset ID:	1-79-1626282.1
Update Date:	2014-05-30
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Solution Type Predictive Self-Healing Sure

Solution 1626282.1 : Sun Blade 8000 Modular System Symptoms and Solutions

Applies to:

Sun Blade 8000 P System - Version All Versions and later
Sun Blade X8400 Server Module - Version All Versions and later
Sun Blade 8000 System - Version All Versions and later
Sun Blade X8420 Server Module - Version All Versions and later
Sun Blade X8450 Server Module - Version All Versions and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Purpose

This document outlines the top non-hardware issues our customers encounter on the Sun Blade 8000 Chassis, with the firmware version which fixes that issue or the workaround

These issues are outlined in more detail on the internal Sun Blade 8000 Chassis Current Product Issues <Document:1364698.1> page

Details

Documentation SB8000 Patches&Firmware SB8000 My Oracle Support Community (MOSC) Sun x86 Systems Oracle System Handbook SB8000/SB8400/SB8420/SB8440/SB8450

Symptom	Details	Resolution/Workaround
Losing access to CMM intermittently	CMM becomes unresponsive on network for 3 minute for ping, ssh and web.	Issue fixed in CMM firmware version SW2.0 / ILOM 2.0.1.1.
CMM event log shows voltage errors.	CMM reports similar error messages in event log CMM/V_+3V3 : Lower Non-critical going low	Issue fixed in CMM firmware version SW2.0 / ILOM 2.0.1.1.
Unexpected reboots and memory uncorrectable error.	X8420/X8440 AMD Opteron PowerNow feature can cause memory Uncorrectable Errors	Workaround: Disable Power Now feature in BIOS BIOS -> Advanced -> CPU Configuration -> PowerNow [Disable]
VMware booting issue with SAN attached to blade	Fibre Channel timeouts when booting ESX (locally or from the SAN) or the ESX installer	Update ILOM/BIOS firmware of blade to latest version.

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