This feature provides the ability to build a solaris 10 images from physical system and migrate it into a virtualized operating system environment there are three main steps using this tool 1. This module installs a driver called lpfcdfc that sits on top of the lpfc driver. This is a database server, and the io is very busy to the array. San storage area networking for system administrators. Fujitsu storage eternus multipath driver oracle solaris. Virtual interfaces in solaris are very similar, to filter on them, use the physical interface instead.
See attachment below where this patch was originally attached. After october 2020 you will not get any more lsus limited support updates for solaris 11. Solaris is a nonfree unix operating system originally developed by sun microsystems. The emlxdrv utility is intended to be used for binding associating. The standard emulex lpfc driver is only available for solaris 8 and 9.
Solaris version, sunos version, release date, end of support, license form. After installing the san storage foundation kit, use the emlxdrv utility to bind the emlxs driver to the desired emulex hba. For lun queue depth, the number of luns in use on a host multiplied by the perlun throttle lunqueuedepth must be less than or equal to the tgtqueuedepth value on the host for queue depth in a sun stack. Configuring the emulex hba using emulex lpfc driver for. And systems support could be discontinued after eosl. The loopback interface on solaris is a fake interface. An exclusive ip stack provides a complete, tunable, manageable and independent networking stack to each zone.
I am trying to determine the eol end of life date for solaris 10. What is the meaning of lpfc driver messages in varlogmessages. The emulex main download page for sun storagetek fibre channel host bus adapters is displayed. Installing an emulex adapter and driver on a solaris host. A readme file that describes the patch naming scheme, and directions and instructions on how. It also includes support for emulexs fcoe oc10xdid. Configuring the emulex hba using emulex lpfc driver for oracle sparc hosts after you install the emulex host bus adapter hba and the driver on the oracle sparc host, you must configure the emulex hba. Emulex does not support coexistence of both native nonoracle emulex fc hba driver lpfc and oracle emulex fc hba driver emlxs on same solaris server. Solaris operating system end of life matrix doc id 10043. I am using emulex lp0 hbas connected to an ibm ds400 disk array. Created attachment 462095 patchset to update emulex lpfc driver to 8. Just click on the server to obtain driver downloads, certification and support information. List all hbas start a rescan for new luns on a hbameans real fc ports not adapters get some fibre channel information the fabric a hba is connected to the wwnn world wide node name the wwpn world wide port name port speed current porttype port state you can also use the systool.
The ip ring returned all posted buffers to the driver and is waiting for the driver to post new buffers. Do not use linux inbox drivers when performing the firmware update. Solaris 10 os update 1 and later include the sfs driver with the os. Analysis of the oracle solaris configuration, including networking, storage, and oracle solaris operating system features in use. How to change emulex drivers in solaris from lpfc to emxls. As with earlier versions, several solaris 10 update releases are planned to come out prior to the next solaris version. This activity was done on a clustered hostand the steps below will be for a clustered hostfolks, its much easier on nonclustered environment.
Endofsoftware support statements oracle solaris 10 910. The solaris 10 release notes documents important installation and runtime issues and bugs. These release notes also include endofsoftware support statements, documentation issues, and a list of fixed bugs that were previously documented. Emulex installation and configuration this is archive documentation, which means it is not supported or valid for recent versions of zimbra collaboration. When sun can provide the first notification to customers that it will be announcing the eol of a milestone version.
Verify the driver version oracle solaris 10 verify the driver version oracle solaris 11 remove the driver oracle solaris os download and install the driver linux remove the driver linux download and install the driver windows remove the driver windows installing the em. Update the hba firmware on oraclebranded hbas blogo thnet. A driver for linux release notes purpose and contact information these release notes describe the new features, re solved known issues, cu rrent known issues, and technical tips associated with these emulex driver for linux releases. This means such systems cannot be updated to oracle solaris 11. This manual on the site may be outdated but it gives you an idea on how to do.
Hello experts, i am middle of a project and my application supports only solaris 10 update 11 where as my server is a new generation hp dl380 gen9 e52620v3. Kindly support us by suggesting any tweak or patch to accomodate the solaris 10 for this particular project. Qlogic driver download fibre channel adapters qla2342. To corroborate y zoned another server, this one solaris 10, to that tape, and responded unit attention, thats ok. On sles 11 systems, if another scsi driver, such as aic79xx, is loaded right behind the. Installation using the lp utilities for solaris on a solaris 2. Vendor hba vendor id device id subsys vendor id subsys id minimium solaris version or patch level use the prtpicl v command to find the following solaris 8 solaris 9 solaris 10 x86 solaris 10 sparc sun sgxpci1fcqlc 1077 6322 1077 2 not supported not supported sun x6799a 1077 2200a 1077 4082 san 4.
New driver package will replace the nf and nf files. Go to, sign in using your oracle support account, and search for patch number 143957 for fcfcoe driver for solaris 10 space. The interim solaris 10 305 hw 1 and hw 2 releases are no longer necessary. Oracle sun hardware and operating systems, oracle solaris. Emulex drivers for linux release notes broadcom inc. What is the meaning of lpfc driver messages in varlog. Solaris qlogic hbas lputil nf hi all hope your all well and happy in solaris land. Solaris 10 for hp dl380 gen9 e52620v3 hewlett packard. Downloading hba driver packages and patches for solaris 10 for sparc or x64 x86. The os will then know how to use the proper new firmware when a. Sles10 fibre channel ibm power systems end of life. For solaris 10, the only driver supported is sun sfs emlxs driver single and dualport, fibre channel interfaces with an emulex adapter support the following public and private loop modes.
Endofsoftware support statements oracle solaris 10 9. From my research this due to emulex driver and recommendation is to install driver version 8. The new version incorporates critical bug fixes to the emulex driver. Oracle solaris zones physical to virtual p2v oracle. Using both gcc and the more recent sun compilers, the options m32 and. Io loss lpfc events causes filesystems to be unusable.
Migration to an oracle solaris zone on an oracle solaris 11 host. Our commitment to deliver a superior ownership experience oracle and sun system software and operating systems may, 2020 page 4 oracle premier support for software youve made an investment in oracle solutions to make your business more efficient, costeffective, riskresistant and competitive. Each computer hardware manufacturer offers multiple hardware architectures and various levels of operating systems. Emulex installation and configuration zimbra tech center. You can compile programs on solaris 10 for 32bit or 64bit.
Migration to an oracle solaris zone on an oracle solaris 10 host. List of supported oracle hardware with last ship dates announced doc id 1450710. This could mean the host system is out of tcpip buffers. From some of the documents ive read, you may have to use the lpfc driver for solaris rather than the emlxs driver. Jan 21, 2012 hba firmware upgrades on solaris servers.
For rhel4 installations that already have the driver, emulex provides a helper module. Solaris 10 updates and the lpfc driver the behavior of the solaris operating system changes beginning with solaris 10 update 1 also referred to as solaris 10 106 release. Jun 04, 2012 an oracle solaris container running in oracle solaris 10 can have a shared ip stack with the global zone, or it can have an exclusive ip stack which was released in oracle solaris 10 807. Oracle solaris zones physical to virtual p2v oracle the. Installing the hba driver with solaris operating systems. Emulex lpe12000 download drivers, utilities, manual, firmware.
Recently purchased some qlogic hbas for a few solaris servers. Theres documentation available on the emulex website regarding the solaris drivers for emulex it tells how to switch control over from emlxs to lpfc. Oracles solaris releases oracles linux releases best systeme. Sparc patch list solaris 10 1009 patch list oracle docs. Id minimium solaris version or patch level use the prtpicl v command to find the following solaris 8 solaris 9 solaris 10 x86 solaris 10 sparc. Hi we run rsh passwordless among solaris 9 10 boxes very frequently and would like to know if there exist any logs which will capture either login session or the commands run using rsh or with any other info. To correct this, perform the following on the client workstation. From the modinfo, it is found that there are no lpfc or emlxs that are loaded. Jul 18, 2012 since updating the emlxs driver will no longer automatically updates the host bus adapters hba firmware on oraclebranded hbas, you have to do it through the proposed steps forced lip.
The examples below describe the process for configuring emulex cards in to support an emc symmetrix array. Last weekend the system crashed and we found the following errors in syslog. Solaris 10 includes suns java desktop system jds, which is based on. Installing an emulex adapter and driver on a sun host. Lpxxxxxxs are sun emulex hba cards ie has a s for sun at end. Solaris x86 platform was previously classified as an optional platform for 2012, every cadence product has chosen to end support for solaris x86 in 2012 due to lack of customer demand. Starting with oct16 the surcharge fee for systems older than 5 years is 15% now was 5% but i could not find any public document reflecting that.
Oracle solaris certification and support hewlett packard enterprise. At this time, the date of the final eol announcement is set to be one year. Solaris 8 and solaris 9 on sparc eol customer communication july 10, 2006 dear cadence customer. Search technical documentation and downloads including firmware and drivers. In 2010, after the sun acquisition by oracle, it was renamed oracle solaris solaris is known for its scalability, especially on sparc systems, and for originating many innovative features such as dtrace, zfs and time slider. Setting queue depths on solaris hosts about this task for lun queue depth, the number of luns in use on a host multiplied by the perlun throttle lunqueuedepth must be less than or equal to the tgtqueuedepth value on the host. Replacing a nonoracle emulex fc hba card with a oracle emulex fc hba card would require migrating all nonoracle emulex fc hba cards to oracle emulex fc hba driver.
Device 0 lpfc sunw,emlxs fp disk lpfc sunw,emlxs fp disk the pci viddid combinations are the same as appear on linux. Solaris 10 operating system os the latest update release is solaris 10 606. The oracle solaris 10 release notes documents important installation and runtime issues and bugs. The os will then know how to use the proper new firmware when a lip is intentionally initiated from the command line. After about 24 or 48 hours, the lpfc driver goes in a loop of. After about 24 or 48 hours, the lpfc driver goes in a loop of up then down events very rapidly several times a second. The xprint postscript print tool is both a print driver and a spooling daemon. For emulex fibre channel cards, switch the driver so that the emulex driver lpfc driver is. This is a quick doc to detail the steps we took to install the emulex drivers and utilities on two zcs servers at a customer site recently. Solaris is a proprietary unix operating system originally developed by sun microsystems.
Emulex drivers for linux release notes 3 pub005463 note. How to rescan for new luns on a emulex fc controller. Our current driver version is much higher than that. The xprint postscript print tool and print daemon work in conjunction with your solaris 1. If you are updating from a firmware version earlier than 10. The emlxdrv utility temporarily associates the emulex emlxs solaris sfs driver and the solaris lpfc driver to the various models of emulex fibre channel adapters, for use during migration from the solaris lpfc driver to the solaris sfs driver. Vmware recommends customers running unsupported esx server releases to upgrade to the nearest supported release and then upgrade to esx server 3. Hi, rescan for new luns on a emulex fibre channel controller. For details on how to download older releases of oracle solaris, including oracle solaris 8 and oracle. If your environment uses these files to perform lun or target masking, refer to the driver manual for important configuration information. Mar 10, 2020 solaris operating system end of life matrix doc id 10043. Jul 15, 2009 today, lets see how to do emulex driver and firmware upgrades on solaris hosts. Solaris 8 32 and 64bit, solaris 9 32 and 64bit or solaris 10 32 and 64bit. On a working node, it is found that emlxs driver loaded correctly.
Secondly, the solaris sd driver configuration file nf must be updated to tell the operating system to scan for more than the default list of scsi disk devices. Lpe11002m4 the procedure for all model will remain same. Configure link aggregations oracle solaris 10 sun quad. Updates to existing solaris x86 based releases may be impacted as well. Solaris x86 eol customer communication dear cadence customer, each computer hardware manufacturer offers multiple hardware architectures and various levels of operating systems. Xprint is supported currently in the sun solaris 1. Emulex hba unresponsive during error recovery red hat. X that contains the emlxs driver which is supplied with the installation cds of solaris 10. For any problems that are encountered while using oracle solaris versions that are eos with datacore.
These instructions start at the point where the cards are physically installed and the lpfc drivers are in place. Download latest helper apps and firmware from emulex. More discussions in solaris 10 this discussion is archived. Solaris 10 10 08 also includes virtualization enhancements including the ability for a solaris container to automatically update its environment when moved from one system to another, logical domains support for dynamically reconfigurable disk and network io, and paravirtualization support when solaris 10 is used as a guest os in xenbased. Solaris 10 updates and the lpfc driver the behavior of the solaris operating system changes beginning with solaris 10 update 1. Is there any support end date for version 10 of solaris from sun. Virtual machines can recognize changes made to rdm lun size. Also, patch was part of an lpfc driver update accepted into rhel5. For solaris 10, the only driver supported is sun sfs emlxs driver. Image creation on the source system, this image includes the operating system and optionally the software in which we. If i try to use native solaris 11 driver is not working, if i install ibm tape driver i can use at os level devrmtxst device, but nbu detects it as unusable. New versions of the operating systems are released periodically, and cadence must. Hi we run rsh passwordless among solaris 910 boxes very frequently and would like to know if there exist any logs which will capture either login session or the commands run using rsh or.
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