If you are updating from a firmware version earlier than 10. For those types of cards you must use lspci k to retrieve the information. Sparc platform solaris 10 update 1 or later installed on. More discussions in solaris 10 this discussion is archived.
Instead of that we have to call it as package update. Hello, i have installed the recommended patch on my solaris server. After you have installed the emulex host bus adapter hba and the driver on the sun sparc host, you must configure the emulex hba. Install the kernel patch of a solaris 10 update release is not the same as do an upgrade to the solaris 10 update release. Emulex ibm bladecenter download drivers, utilities. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool. The emulexsun lightpulse hba device driver for solaris, emlxs, is a fibre channel adapter fca driver as specified by the sun fibre channel architecture also known as leadville. However it appears you dont need solaris 10 patches since youre running solaris express. Eternus multipath driver restrictions with solaris 10 os.
Please enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of our new posts by email. This activity was done on a clustered hostand the steps below will be for a clustered hostfolks, its much easier on nonclustered environment. Correct, its not possible to get solaris 10 patches with out a valid support contract. On solaris 10, the solaris patch 12022206 is a minimum version that has been qualified. This is a database server, and the io is very busy to the array. After about 24 or 48 hours, the lpfc driver goes in a loop of. In solaris 11, oracle removed the word called patches from their dictionary.
The solaris sfs fca emlxs driver is distributed by sun as part of the solaris 10 operating environment, with driver updates distributed as part of solaris updates and patches. As a result, the following scriptspecial patches are not made available for customers because they are not required outside. Please useas a guide and tailor to your site and needs. The recommended os patchset solaris 10 sparc provides the minimum set of patches needed to address security and sun alert issues, and selected issues identified by oracle proactive services and the oracle technical support center, for the solaris 10 operating system for sparc. Connect solaris 10 to netapp filer using emulex single. The patches that are listed in this chapter have been applied to the solaris 10 operating system in. Emulex firmware upgrade solaris technologylearning.
How to check the hba name, make, model, firmware, driver. I have removed the lpfc driver and installed the leadville driver for the hba cards the driver is associate with the hba card. The following emulex cards require drivers supplied in patch 120222 26. The lpfc driver has been upstream for many years and can be readily found in the distributions. For example, the smart array, sil2424 and ata hba, as shown in the above configuration, do not supply that information. The table show which kernel patch revision is included in the solaris 10 update releases and there patch dependencies. Sparc patch list solaris 10 1008 patch list oracle docs. By default, if run without any option or operand, pca shows a list of all patches which are not installed in their most recent revision. These patches were applied when the solaris 10 os was created. Jan 21, 2012 hba firmware upgrades on solaris servers. Pca is a perl script which generates lists of installed and missing patches for oracle solaris systems and optionally downloads and installs patches. Fcfcoe driver for solaris 10 sparc, na, oracle solaris driver patch.
Configuring the emulex hba using emulex lpfc driver for sun. Although most fibre channel drivers register a model name and description within sysfs, not all scsi drivers will. With solaris 10, patching the global zone will install the patches on all zones by default, unless the affected package isnt installed on the target zone or you explicitly ask to install the patch on the global zone only g. Persistent binding on solaris 10 with emulex hba dell community. What is the meaning of lpfc driver messages in varlogmessages. Product names product ids with media eternus multipath driver b011103h0h. But, if this is your first time connecting remote storage to solaris, there are a number of configuration tasks that will be new to you if you have only worked with directly attached scsi arrays or suns legacy fibre channel arrays such as the. The driver for solaris 10 os and solaris 9 os 91426714 the legacy driver for solaris 9 os, solaris 8 os, solaris 7 os and solaris 2. When the volumes are created and mapped, restart the host with the reboot r command. Patches released after the solaris 10 1008 release can be found on the my oracle support. I am using emulex lp0 hbas connected to an ibm ds400 disk array. Howto solve this disk error in solaris in single user mode.
Some products hbas, software, os may not becovered. Note the oracle solaris 10 106 software contains scriptspecial patches which do not deliver bug fixes or new features, but deliver changes that are required as a result of issues with the creation of the update image. Solaris 10 update 8 emulex fibre adapter 799875 feb 18, 2010 6. The solaris 10 software includes a known and tested level of patches. I tried pkg update nv command but it looks like its giving result of all package which may get update from command pkg command. As per part of take over i need to apply latest security patch in solaris 10 zone1,zone2 and zone3, but global is solaris 11. Emulex lpe12000 download drivers, utilities, manual, firmware. Luns, paths and disk storage systems cannot be removed. Howto reconfigure fibre channel attached disk storage devices in. For solaris 89, install the latest oracle storedge san software available from oracle website with associated patches. For an example,if your systems are running with solaris 10 807 update4,then select that and select the right platform. The sun driver does automatically persistent binding, in lpfc driver you.
Hello there, we recently had an issue with a brief fabric outage causing vxvm dmp to disable the path down one hba lp0 using the lpfc driver on a pair of solaris 8 vcs cluster nodes. On other servers attached to the same fabric, the path recovered at the os level on its own and the dmp path w. Qlogic driver download fibre channel adapters solaris solaris. The patches that are listed in this chapter have been applied to the solaris 10 operating system in one of the following ways. How to load and view hba and associated san software. Here is a script i put together a couple years ago which will email alerts as they occur. The driver and utilities are available for download at the emulex web page. The patch to install depends on which driver is installed.
Solaris operating system version 10 305 to 10 910 u9 release 10. After about 24 or 48 hours, the lpfc driver goes in a loop of up then down events very rapidly several times a second. In other words, you have to update the system instead of the. The driver to install varies with the type of solaris tm operating system. Do not use linux inbox drivers when performing the firmware update. Apr 19, 2017 oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool and 298 other security bugs mega load of updates lands for tons of big red gear.
A readme file that describes the patch naming scheme, and directions and instructions on how. The following are the most recent patches for the multipath driver. Jul 15, 2009 today, lets see how to do emulex driver and firmware upgrades on solaris hosts. Earlier it has global is solaris 10, container is 10. Patches are not required for servers running solaris 10 1008 os or later. Feb 11, 2014 the lpfc driver has been upstream for many years and can be readily found in the distributions.
Latest solaris 10 patch bundles i dont know if its just my own ignorance or oracle purposely obfuscating the latest patch bundles for solaris but i recently had a hell of a time finding the january 2017 patch bundle for solaris 10. The script installed the emulex lpfc drivers and utilities, network appliance sanlun utility, and updated parameters in etcsystem. Emulex drivers for linux release notes 3 pub005463 note. Fujitsu storage eternus multipath driver oracle solaris. Does anyone know of a command that would show the list of patches installed and the date it was installed. Click on that highlighted link to get the below screen where you. But the old san have been using mpxio for the multipathing so could someone outline the procedure to enable. Table 9 leadville driver version and package solaris os version leadville driver released mu driver level oracle patch solaris 10 sparc mu11 1 qlc 201207174. Recent driver kits can be found on the website as well as websites for various oems. This project is a development area for a linux device driver for emulex fibre channel hbas, targetting the linux 2. Emulex drivers for linux release notes broadcom inc. Im trying to find out a way to display the latest patches installed in a solaris box.
Hang using lpfc driver when deleting devices and rescanning. Oracle solaris version installation information eternus multipath driver oracle solaris version installation information. For solaris 10, use the oracle update manager to install the latest patches. It is run from cron and will email any alerts encountered in the last x minutes. The driver to install varies with the type of solaristm operating system. Our solaris 9 boxes have been using netapp san brocade switch we have purchased hds san systems the virtual storage platform which also use brocade 5100 switch have tested on test server by switching from the old netapp san to the new hds san and see the disks okay.
Downloading hba driver packages and patches for solaris 10 for sparc or x64. How to upgrade emulex firmware and driver in solaris zeroconf. Emc host connectivity guide for oracle solaris dell technologies. If you installed an earlier version of solaris and bound the hbas to the lpfc driver. Hbanyware requires a minimum screen resolution of 1024 x 768. The showrev p command provides a list of all patches that were applied to the installed system, regardless of how they were applied. This emulex lpfc driver enables support for emulexs lightpulse lpe16000 did. Top use the usrsbinprtconf vp or usrsbinprtpicl v command to determine the following five properties of the fc hba. Mp1 consisted of sun patches 121002 for solaris 8, 11239204 for. Looking for help as to why solaris 8 lpfc path didnt recover. Todd, the array lun number is ok, its the host id number that i wan concerned about. Determining emulex firmware and fcode versions for native drivers 16.
I want to scan my solaris 11 box to get list of either missing patches or patches which need to get updated due to newer version release. This article is going to explain that how to update the solaris 11. Solaris 10 1008 operating system patch list solaris 10 10. Just click on the server to obtain driver downloads, certification and support. No license is granted by implication or otherwise under any patent or patent rights of emulex corporation. Page 5 table 2 solaris 8 and solaris 9 fca support sparc server multipathing vendor model mpxio driver version sgxpcinfcqf2 sfs 4. Fujitsu storage eternus multipath driver oracle solaris version installation information. The driver for solaris 11 os and solaris 10 os t011535sp07 the driver for solaris 10 os and solaris 9 os 91426718. Open the storage group for the host you should see thre tree items lists open the host tree item and you should see the host listed right click on the host and select connectivity status the paths should be listed as logged in and registered make sure all paths are listed correctly. Solaris 10 1008 operating system patch list solaris 10. Emulex lightpulse fibre channel adapter driver lpfc. New driver package will replace the nf and nf files. This is a short overview of solaris 10 kernel patches.
Looking for help as to why solaris 8 lpfc path didnt recover hello there, we recently had an issue with a brief fabric outage causing vxvm dmp to disable the path down one hba lp0 using the lpfc driver on a pair of solaris 8 vcs cluster nodes. What is the meaning of lpfc driver messages in varlog. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool and 298 other security bugs mega load of updates lands for tons of big red gear. Lpe11002m4 the procedure for all model will remain same. My understanding is that showrev p would show patches but not the date they were installed. To configure the emulex hba for a sun sparc host, use the following steps.
Patches released after the solaris 10 10 08 release can be found on the my oracle support. On one of the servers, the driver reported by the prtpicl command is. By jason mccullough, july 11, 2003 storage area networks have moved from the cutting edge to almost commonplace. Note that the reverse of this is not true the native emulex lpfc driver is not supported for use with a sun branded fc hba in solaris. How to scan solaris 11 for missing patches oracle community. The solaris 10 1008 patch list provides a list of patches preapplied to the solaris 10 1008 release. Sparc platform solaris 10 update 1 or later installed on a local drive sun released patch 12022206 or later installed. Howto reregister a solaris system with sconadm without. The solaris 10 10 08 patch list provides a list of patches preapplied to the solaris 10 10 08 release. Configuring the emulex hba using emulex lpfc driver for sun sparc hosts. Procedure modify the nf file in the kerneldrv directory to inform the solaris operating system about the new scsi target device and luns. Most of the solaris administrators will search for solaris 11 os patch bundle like how we use to get for solaris 10 but you wont get it. List of patches and date installed my understanding is that showrev p would show patches but not the date they were installed.
Howto reregister a solaris system with sconadm without serialnumber, to downloadinstall patches with smpatch doc id 47266. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware. Therefore, these patches are not located in the varsadm patch directory. Oracle solaris certification and support hewlett packard enterprise. The patches contained in this patchset are considered the most. Click on that highlighted link to get the below screen where you can start os patch bundle download. Oracle solaris operating system solaris 10 1 u11 sparc and 3 minimum patch revisions, 14888802, 14208803, and 15011502 oracle solaris cluster software4,5 maximum number of nodes6 multipath driver oracle solaris oracle san driver bundled in os for oracle solaris 10 host adapters3 sgxpci1fcqf2, sgxpci1fcql2, sgxpci2fcqf2, sg. Created attachment 462095 patchset to update emulex lpfc driver to 8. Solaris fault management is great feature, but lacks basic reporting functionality on solaris 10. If the solaris sfs fca emlxs driver is not already installed, obtain and install the solaris 10 or opensolaris packages. As a result, the following scriptspecial patches are not made available for customers because they are not required outside of creating the update release. Solaris 10 kernel patches looks hard, but it isnt oracle. The heart of the sun fibre channel architecture consists of the fibre channel transport layer fctl modules, which provide a common interface for various fibre. Configuring the emulex hba using emulex lpfc driver for.