Known Issues
This section describes known issues in this release.
General Functionality Issues and Limitations
■Dynamic Reconfiguration (DR) is not recommended in cases below, due to the following restrictions on the DR addboard, deleteboard, and moveboard commands. Please contact your Sales representative or Technical Support for additional information and software support.
■The target board (SB/XSB) with permanent memory. See “Identifying Permanent Memory in a Target Board” on page 31.
■The target board (SB/XSB) with optional I/O cards because of some restrictions on specific cards.
Caution – Use of DR in an unsupported configuration might result in a domain panic or might hang the system.
■Domains using the ZFS file system can not use Reconfiguration.
■PCI Hot‐plug feature is not available for this release.
Please contact your sales representative or technical support for additional information and software support.
■SPARC Enterprise M4000/M5000 servers are cold service machines. Hot‐swapping of the CPU/Memory board unit (CMU), I/O Unit (IOU), or any eXtended System Control Facility (XSCF) unit is not supported.
■The XSCF web browser interface, also known as the browser user interface (BUI), has limited availability in this release. It can be used for importing the XSCF firmware and it supports the snapshot Full log set collection function. Use the command‐line interface (CLI) instead on the Service Processor and the domains for other activities.
■Power off all domains before upgrading the XCP firmware.
■In this release, to conduct the maintenance work of COD board, it is necessary to power off the system.
SPARC Enterprise M4000/M5000 Servers Product Notes 3