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Update Date:2017-10-11
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Solution  1967047.1 :   SPARC M8 and SPARC M7 Series Servers : Minimum supported Firmware, Software and Solaris patches page  

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  • SPARC M7-16
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In this Document


Purpose


Details


 1. System Firmware and Solaris


 2. Software stack


References


Applies to:  

SPARC M8-8 - Version All Versions and later
SPARC M7-8 - Version All Versions and later
SPARC M7-16 - Version All Versions and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.



Purpose


The goal of this document is to list the minimum supported firmware, software, Solaris, patches and requirements for minimal Solaris installation for the SPARC M8 and SPARC M7 Series Servers. 


Details


1. System Firmware and Solaris


The following table lists minimum supported hardware, firmware and operating system (OS) combinations, as well as required software patches.


Reminder:


    

  • Oracle Solaris 10 09/10 is also known as S10U9
    • 

  • Oracle Solaris 10 08/11 is also known as S10U10
    • 

  • Oracle Solaris 10 01/13 is also known as S10U11 
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   SP / SPPControl / Root / IO domainGuest domain


ModelProcessorSysFW / ILOM
Oracle Solaris 11.3 


Oracle Solaris 10
Oracle Solaris 11.1
Oracle Solaris 11.2

Oracle Solaris 11.3
Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 (1)Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 (1)Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 (1)Oracle Solaris 11 / 11.1 / 11.2



M7-8
Oracle SPARC M7 @ 4.13Ghz
9.5.2.g / 3.2.5.8.g
Yes - 0.175.3.1.0.5.0
No
Yes (2) - 0.175.3.1.0.5.0
Mandatory patches list (3)
Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 SPARC Bundle SPARC Bundle (2) + Mandatory patches list (3)


Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 SPARC Bundle SPARC Bundle (2) + Mandatory patches list (3)  Note (4)




No






M7-16
Oracle SPARC M7 @ 4.13Ghz
9.5.2.g / 3.2.5.8.g
Yes - 0.175.3.2.0.4.0
No
Yes (2) - 0.175.3.2.0.4.0
Mandatory patches list (3)
Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 SPARC Bundle SPARC Bundle (2) + Mandatory patches list (3)


Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 SPARC Bundle SPARC Bundle (2) + Mandatory patches list (3) Note (4)




No






M8-8
Oracle SPARC M8 @ 5.0Ghz
9.8.0.c / 4.0.1.1.c
Yes - 0.175.3.24.0.4.0
No
Yes (2) - 0.175.3.24.0.4.0
Mandatory patches list (5)
 


 




No








Notes :


    

  1. Virtual IO only using VNET and VDISK
    2. 

  2. No previous version supported
    3. 

  3. Patches list : 
      

    1. All patches and packages up to October 2015
      2. 

    2. KU150400-29
      3. 

    4. 

  4. Instances of Oracle Solaris 10 with required patches and packages in a single guest domain are limited to 1024 virtual CPUs and 4 Tbytes of memory.
    5. 

  5. Patches list :
      

    1. All patches and packages up to June 2017
      2. 

    2.  KU150400-51

      3. 

    6. 



2. Software stack





SoftwareMinimum version for M8Comments for M8Minimum version for M7Comments for M7



Oracle VM (LDoms) (1)
 3.5
 
3.3
Included with Solaris 11.3 (0.175.3.1.0.5.0)




Oracle VTS
VTS 8.2.0
 
VTS 7.0ps19.2-S11
Included with Solaris 11.3 (0.175.3.1.0.5.0)




Oracle Solaris Cluster
 4.3
For Solaris 11.3 
 4.3
For Solaris 11.3




Oracle Solaris Cluster
 
 
3.3u2 + latest patch
For Solaris 10 on guests only




Oracle Solaris Studio
Solaris Studio 12.6
 
Solaris Studio 12.4, 4/15 Platform Specific Enhancement
 




Oracle JDK
 
 
Oracle JDK 7 Update 85 b33
 




Oracle Hardware Management Pack
2.4
 
 2.3.3
 Included with Solaris 11.3




Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center
13c Release 2.2
Full support 
12.2.3 or
12c Release 3		
 Full support




ASR XML Schema
 
 
2.0
Included in ILOM 3.2.5




SP fallback miniroot image
ORACLE SOLARIS 11.3 FALLBACK BOOT
fallback-boot-5.11-0.175.3.24.0.4.0 		
See Oracle Solaris 11.3 Support Repository Updates (SRU) Index (Doc ID 2045311.1) for pointers to the Fallback Boot Images 
ORACLE SOLARIS 11.3 FALLBACK BOOT
fallback-boot-5.11-0.175.3.1.0.5.0
fallback-5.11-0.175.3.2.0.4.0		
See Oracle Solaris 11.3 Support Repository Updates (SRU) Index (Doc ID 2045311.1) for pointers to the Fallback Boot Images 






 


Additional Information:



References
<NOTE:1967048.1> - SPARC M8 and SPARC M7 Series Servers : Firmware Image Software Version Matrix Information
<NOTE:2045311.1> - Oracle Solaris 11.3 Support Repository Updates (SRU) Index



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