Sun Microsystems Sun Fire X4200, Sun Fire X4100 Release Note

Sun Fire™X4100 and

Sun Fire X4200 Servers

Release Notes For

Software Release 1.1

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Part No. 819-5033-10 July 2006, Revision A

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Flash Upgrading Your Server to Release 1.1 1

How to Flash Upgrade Your Server to

Release 1.1 2

Summary of ILOM SP/BIOS Flash Upgrade Steps 3

How to Determine The Firmware Version of Your Server 5

Determining the Firmware Version Using the CLI Through the Management

Ethernet Port 5

Determining the Firmware Version Using the CLI Through the Serial Port 6

Determining the Firmware Version Using the Web GUI 7

Running the Pre-Flash Script 8

Summary Pre-Flash Script Procedure 8

Detailed Pre-Flash Script Procedures 9

Determining Whether the Pre-Flash Script Has Been Applied 29

Locating ILOM Service Processor Addresses 29

How to Reset the SP 30

Special Considerations Regarding the ILOM Firmware Release 1.0.1 Update 31

Flash Upgrades From SP Build 6464 to Build 10644 Fail With Bad /conf

Partition (6415975) 31

FRU Information Appears Empty After Updating the ILOM Firmware and the

BIOS (6406138) 31

iii

Considerations When Starting the Update On Systems With ILOM Versions

Earlier than 6464 32

Recovering From a Failed Flash Update 33

Upgrading LSI Firmware and BIOS 38

Component Versions By Release 38

iv Sun Fire X4100 and Sun Fire X4200 Servers Release Notes For Software Release 1.1 • July 2006

Preface

This document contains procedures and special information for upgrading your Sun Fire X4100 or Sun Fire X4200 server to the Release 1.1 software upgrade bundle.

Flash Upgrading Your Server to Release 1.1

Note – It is recommended that you upgrade directly to the latest firmware and BIOS

release available. Separate release notes with instructions for returning to earlier releases for troubleshooting or other reasons might also be provided at the document website where this document is published.

™

This chapter contains procedures and information for upgrading Sun Fire and Sun Fire X4200 servers from the initial Release 1.0 to Release 1.1. See the following sections:

■ “How to Flash Upgrade Your Server to Release 1.1” on page 2

■ “How to Determine The Firmware Version of Your Server” on page 5

■ “Running the Pre-Flash Script” on page 8

■ “Special Considerations Regarding the ILOM Firmware Release 1.0.1 Update” on

page 31

■ “Recovering From a Failed Flash Update” on page 33

■ “Upgrading LSI Firmware and BIOS” on page 38

■ “Component Versions By Release” on page 38

X4100

How to Flash Upgrade Your Server to Release 1.1

The Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) firmware (FW) and BIOS are tightly coupled and are always updated together. The Release 1.1 Upgrade software bundle contains new ILOM FW and BIOS upgrades, plus a number of optional enhancements to the software that was shipped with earlier releases:

■ ILOM FW version 1.0.1, which includes service processor (SP) build 10664 and

BIOS 31.

■ LSI controller FW 1.08.01 and BIOS 6.04.07.

■ Windows drivers for LSI, version 1.20.17.

■ New preinstalled Solaris operating system image, which includes Solaris 10 1/06,

raidctl patch 119851-13, and 100 MB configured free to allow RAID configuration.

■ New Sun Fire X4100 and Sun Fire X4200 Diagnostics CD image, which includes

SunVTS 6.0 Patch Set 3.

■ New Sun Installation Assistant CD image, which adds more support for the

following operating systems: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 First Customer Ship (FCS) version, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 FCS, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 FCS.

The following section shows a summary of the steps you should perform to update your server from Release 1.0 to Release 1.1.

2 Sun Fire X4100 and Sun Fire X4200 Servers Release Notes For Software Release 1.1 • July 2006

Summary of ILOM SP/BIOS Flash Upgrade Steps

1. Determine which version of the ILOM firmware that you currently have. See

“How to Determine The Firmware Version of Your Server” on page 5.

Release Version Firmware version Firmware Build

Release 1.1 FW 1.0.2 10664

Release 1.0 FW 1.0.0 6464

2. Download and run the ilom.X4100-preflash_1.2.sh (or later) pre-flash script file to prepare your server for the flash upgrade.

For detailed instructions, including automated procedures for running the preflash script on multiple servers (with a sample automation scripts for copying), see “Running the Pre-Flash Script” on page 8. Download the file from this URL:

http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/x4100/downloads.jsp

Caution – Possible ILOM service processor damage: You must apply the pre-flash

script to ILOM SPs that have firmware earlier than r10664.rom.ima, to avoid possible corruption of the SP. The flash recovery process from this corruption is complicated, and might not succeed, requiring replacement of the SP hardware (see

“Recovering From a Failed Flash Update” on page 33 for details). The pre-flash

script is only required for upgrading from ILOM SP versions earlier than r10664.rom.ima.

3. Review the section “Special Considerations Regarding the ILOM Firmware

Release 1.0.1 Update” on page 31 for known issues and considerations regarding

the flash upgrade.

4. Download the r10664.rom.ima flash image from the URL below:

http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/x4100/downloads.jsp

5. Use the ILOM GUI, the ILOM CLI load command, or N1 System Manager to perform the flash upgrade.

Because of the increased memory usage during web-based GUI operations, you might need to use N1 System Manager or the ILOM CLI load command to upgrade the ILOM firmware. See the N1 System Manager documentation or the Integrated Lights-Out Manager Administration Guide, 819-1160 for details of firmware flashing. For example:

From the ILOM CLI, use the following command

load -source tftp://<tftpserver>/<firmware.ima>

Online documentation for Sun N1 System Manager can be found at:

http://docs.sun.com/coll/1283.2

Flash Upgrading Your Server to Release 1.1 3

Caution – To ensure a successful flash upgrade, do not attempt to modify the ILOM

configuration, or use other ILOM GUI, CLI, SNMP, or IPMI interfaces during the flash upgrade process. Wait until after the flash upgrade succeeds to make further ILOM configuration changes. Note that the ILOM upgrade procedure might reset the service processor if it detects recent ILOM configuration changes, or multiple ILOM users or connections.

Note – A firmware upgrade causes the server and ILOM to reset. An upgrade takes

about 20 minutes to complete. ILOM will enter a special mode to load new firmware. No other tasks can be performed in ILOM until the firmware upgrade is complete and the ILOM is reset.

For full instructions on performing a flash upgrade, see the section, “How to Upgrade the ILOM Firmware” in the Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) Administration Guide, 819-1160. You can find the document at this URL:

http://www.sun.com/products-nsolutions/hardware/docs/Servers/x64_servers/x4100/index.html

6. If you have any problems with the flash upgrade, refer to the section“Recovering

From a Failed Flash Update” on page 33.

4 Sun Fire X4100 and Sun Fire X4200 Servers Release Notes For Software Release 1.1 • July 2006

How to Determine The Firmware Version of Your Server

There are three alternate procedures in this section that you can use:

■ “Determining the Firmware Version Using the CLI Through the Management

Ethernet Port” on page 5

■ “Determining the Firmware Version Using the CLI Through the Serial Port” on

page 6

■ “Determining the Firmware Version Using the Web GUI” on page 7

Determining the Firmware Version Using the CLI Through the Management Ethernet Port

1. Connect an RJ-45 Ethernet cable to the NET MGT Ethernet port on the back panel.

2. Establish an SSH connection using the following command, then enter the default

password (changeme) when you are prompted:

# ssh -l root <SP IP address>

changeme

After you have successfully logged in, the SP displays its default command prompt:

3. Type the version command, which will return output similar to the following:

-> version

SP firmware version: 1.0

SP firmware build number: 6464

SP firmware date: Tue Sep 13 12:50:37 PDT 2005

SP filesystem version: 0.1.13

The ILOM firmware build version is the build number listed above.

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Determining the Firmware Version Using the CLI Through the Serial Port

1. Configure your terminal device or the terminal emulation software running on a laptop or PC to the following settings:

■ 8N1: eight data bits, no parity, one stop bit

■ 9600 baud

■ Disable hardware flow control (CTS/RTS)

■ Disable software flow control (XON/XOFF)

2. Connect a serial cable from the RJ-45 SER MGT port on your server’s back panel to your terminal device or PC.

3. Press Enter on the terminal device to establish a connection between that terminal device and the server’s SP.

The SP displays a login prompt.

SUNSP0003BA84D777 login:

In this example login prompt, 0003BA84D777 is the Ethernet MAC address of the SP. This will be different for each server.

4. Log in to the ILOM SP and type the default user name (root) with the default password (changeme).

After you have successfully logged in, the SP displays its default command prompt:

5. Type the version command, which will return output similar to the following:

-> version

SP firmware version: 1.0

SP firmware build number: 6464

SP firmware date: Tue Sep 13 12:50:37 PDT 2005

SP filesystem version: 0.1.13

The ILOM firmware build version is the build number listed above.

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Determining the Firmware Version Using the Web GUI

1. Connect to the ILOM Web GUI by typing the IP address of the server’s SP into your browser’s URL field. For example:

https://129.146.53.150

2. Log in to the ILOM SP and type the default user name (root) with the default password (changeme).

The first web page that is presented is the System Information -> Versions page, which includes the Build Number.

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