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Dynamic Reconguration on Sun Fire Midrange Systems
This section describes major issues that are related to DR on the following Sun Fire midrange
systems:
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Sun Fire E6900
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Sun Fire E4900
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Sun Fire E6800
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Sun Fire E4810
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Sun Fire E4800
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Sun Fire E3800
Note – This information applies only to DR as it runs on the servers listed in this section. For
information about DR on other servers, see the Release Notes or Product Notes documents or
sections that describe those servers.
Minimum System Controller Firmware
Table 3–1 shows acceptable combinations of Solaris software and System Controller (SC)
rmware for each Sun Fire midrange system to run DR.
Note – To best utilize the latest rmware features and bug xes, run the most recent SC rmware
on your Sun Fire midrange system. For the latest patch information, see
http://sunsolve.sun.com.
TABLE 3–1 Minimum SC Firmware for Each Platform and Solaris Release
Platform Solaris Release Minimum SC Firmware
Sun Fire E6900/E4900 with
UltraSPARC IV+
Solaris 10 3/05 HW1 (a limited
release) or Solaris 10 1/06
5.19.0
E6900/E4900 without UltraSPARC
IV+
Solaris 9 4/04 5.16.0
Sun Fire 6800/4810/4800/3800 Solaris 9 4/04 5.16.0
Sun Fire 6800/4810/4800/3800 Solaris 9 5.13.0
You can upgrade the system rmware for your Sun Fire midrange system by connecting to an
FTP or HTTP server where the rmware images are stored. For more information, refer to the
README and Install.info les. These les are included in the rmware releases that are
running on your domains. You can download Sun patches from
http://sunsolve.sun.com.
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