Support of Oracle Flash Accelerator, F640 PCIe card in T7-x and S7-x systems

Asset ID:	1-79-2337021.1
Update Date:	2018-03-16
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Solution Type Predictive Self-Healing Sure

Solution 2337021.1 : Support of Oracle Flash Accelerator, F640 PCIe card in T7-x and S7-x systems

Applies to:

SPARC T7-1 - Version All Versions and later
SPARC T7-2 - Version All Versions and later
SPARC T7-4 - Version All Versions and later
SPARC S7-2 - Version All Versions and later
SPARC S7-2L - Version All Versions and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Purpose

To illustrate minimum system requirements to support the Oracle Flash Accelerator F640 PCIe card in T7-x, S7-x, and T8-x systems. Customers with older versions of Oracle Flash drives that wish to upgrade to this latest version will be required to make these system updates.

Additionally:
The Oracle Flash Accelerator F320 PCIe Card and the Oracle 3.2 TB NVMe SSD (SFF) will EOL on M7/S7/T7 platforms effective 01/01/18.
Platforms will need to make these system updates to support replacement with the Oracle Flash Accelerator F640 PCIe Card.

Scope

Customers that are using the Oracle Flash Accelerator F640 PCIe Card (7115454) or are migrating from Oracle F320 Flash Cards (or earlier Flash drive versions) to the Oracle F640 Flash Card on SPARC T7-x, SPARC T8-x, and S7-x systems.

Details

Customers will need to update their systems to these minimum revisions to support the latest F640 Flash drives. Support for F640 Flash drives in T7-x, S7-x, T8-x requires minimum revisions of:

System Firmware (T7-x, S7-x), Solaris (T7-x, T8-x, S7-x), and FPGA (T7-x and S7-x).

T7-x, S7-x: Minimum sysFW 9.8.3 or higher

Patch 27043765, SPARC T7-1
Patch 27043766, SPARC T7-2
Patch 27043767, SPARC T7-4
Patch 27043768, SPARC S7-2
Patch 27043769, SPARC S7-2L
Patch 27043770, Netra SPARC S7-2

Sys-FW update not needed for T8-x systems. Shipped (RR) with 9.8.1

T7-1, T7-4, , S7-x: Hardware_Programmables 1.0.14

Patch 26963946: FIRMWARE: SPARC T7-SYSTEMS+S7-SYSTEMS HW PROGRAMMABLES 1.0.14

T7-2: Hardware_Programmables 1.0.15

Patch 27353106: FIRMWARE: SPARC T7-2 SYSTEMS HW PROGRAMMABLES 1.0.15

Update not needed for T8-x systems.

T7-x, S7-x: Minimum OS 11.3 SRU23 or higher (BUG 26131895)
T8-x: Minimum OS 11.3 SRU23 or higher

Oracle Solaris 11.3 Support Repository Updates (SRU) Index (Doc ID 2045311.1)

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