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Contents

  1. Preface
  2. Chapter 1 Before Starting Maintenance Work
    1.  1.1 Warning/Caution Indications
    2.  1.2 Labels/Tags
    3.  1.3 Safety Precautions
    4.  1.4 Notes Regarding Static Electricity
    5.  1.5 Other Precautions
    6.  1.6 Emergency Power Off
    7. Click 1.7 Important Information About the XCP Firmware
  3. Chapter 2 Understanding the PCI Expansion Unit Components
    1.  2.1 Identifying the Names and Locations of Components
    2. Click 2.2 Checking the Status With the LEDs
  4. Chapter 3 Types of Maintenance
    1.  3.1 Maintenance Types of the PCI Expansion Unit
    2.  3.2 Types of Maintenance for the Link Card
    3. Click 3.3 Types of Maintenance for the PCIe Card
  5. Chapter 4 Preparation and Precautions for Maintenance
    1. Click 4.1 Troubleshooting
    2. Click 4.2 Precautions for Maintenance
  6. Chapter 5 Preparations Required for Maintenance
    1.  5.1 Preparing Tools Required for Maintenance
    2.  5.2 Checking the PCI Expansion Unit Requiring Maintenance and the Destination Physical Partition
    3.  5.3 Checking the Firmware Version of the PCI Expansion Unit
    4. Click 5.4 Checking the Operating Condition and Resource Usage Status
    5. Click 5.5 Releasing the Link Card or PCIe Card From the System
    6.  5.6 Stopping the FRU Requiring Maintenance
    7. Click 5.7 Accessing a FRU
  7. Chapter 6 Understanding the Preparations for Restoring the System
    1. Click 6.1 Restoring the Chassis of the PCI Expansion Unit
    2.  6.2 Supplying Power to the FRU Requiring Maintenance
    3. Click 6.3 Mounting a Link Card or PCIe Card on the System
    4. Click 6.4 Restoring the Logical Domain to the Status It Had Before Maintenance
    5.  6.5 Turning Off the CHECK LED (Locator) of the PCI Expansion Unit
    6. Click 6.6 Updating the Firmware of the PCI Expansion Unit
  8. Chapter 7 Maintenance Flow
    1. Click 7.1 FRU Replacement Workflow for the PCI Expansion Unit
    2. Click 7.2 FRU Addition Workflow for the PCI Expansion Unit
    3. Click 7.3 FRU Removal Workflow for the PCI Expansion Unit
    4. Click 7.4 Link Card Maintenance Workflow
  9. Chapter 8 Maintaining the PCI Express Cards
    1.  8.1 Before Maintaining a PCI Express Card
    2.  8.2 Configuration of the PCIe Cards
    3. Click 8.3 Removing a PCI Express Card
    4. Click 8.4 Installing a PCI Express Card
  10. Chapter 9 Maintaining the Link Board
    1.  9.1 Before Maintaining the Link Board
    2.  9.2 Configuration of the Link Board
    3. Click 9.3 Removing the Link Board
    4. Click 9.4 Installing the Link Board
  11. Chapter 10 Maintaining the Link Cards
    1.  10.1 Before Maintaining a Link Card
    2.  10.2 Configuration of a Link Card
    3.  10.3 Removing a Link Card
    4.  10.4 Installing a Link Card
  12. Chapter 11 Maintaining the Link Cables
    1.  11.1 Before Maintaining a Link Cable
    2.  11.2 Configuration of the Link Cable Connection Ports
    3.  11.3 Removing a Link Cable
    4.  11.4 Installing a Link Cable
  13. Chapter 12 Maintaining the Management Cable
    1.  12.1 Before Maintaining the Management Cable
    2.  12.2 Configuration of the Management Cable Connection Port
    3.  12.3 Removing the Management Cable
    4.  12.4 Installing the Management Cable
  14. Chapter 13 Maintaining the Power Supply Units
    1.  13.1 Before Maintaining a Power Supply Unit
    2.  13.2 Configuration of the Power Supply Units
    3.  13.3 Removing a Power Supply Unit
    4.  13.4 Installing a Power Supply Unit
  15. Chapter 14 Maintaining the Fan Units
    1.  14.1 Before Maintaining a Fan Unit
    2.  14.2 Configuration of the Fan Units
    3. Click 14.3 Removing a Fan Unit
    4. Click 14.4 Installing a Fan Unit
  16. Chapter 15 Maintaining the PCI Tray
    1.  15.1 Before Maintaining the PCI Tray
    2.  15.2 Configuration of the PCI Tray
    3. Click 15.3 Removing the PCI Tray
    4. Click 15.4 Installing the PCI Tray
  17. Chapter 16 Maintaining the I/O Board
    1.  16.1 Before Maintaining the I/O Board
    2.  16.2 Configuration of the I/O Board
    3. Click 16.3 Removing the I/O Board
    4. Click 16.4 Installing the I/O Board
  18. Chapter 17 Maintaining the Fan Backplane
    1.  17.1 Before Maintaining the Fan Backplane
    2.  17.2 Fan Backplane Location
    3. Click 17.3 Removing the Fan Backplane
    4. Click 17.4 Installing the Fan Backplane
  19. Appendix A Component List
  20. Appendix B Component Specifications
    1.  B.1 PCI Express Card
    2.  B.2 Link Board
    3.  B.3 Power Supply Unit
    4.  B.4 Fan Unit
    5.  B.5 PCI Tray
    6.  B.6 I/O Board
    7.  B.7 Fan Backplane
  21. Appendix C Problems During Firmware Update

3.1 Maintenance Types of the PCI Expansion Unit


3.1 Maintenance Types of the PCI Expansion Unit
This section describes the maintenance types of the PCI expansion unit.
Maintenance of the PCI expansion unit is divided into two types depending on the input power status of the PCI expansion unit: hot maintenance and cold maintenance. The terms are defined as follows:
Hot Maintenance
Maintenance can be performed with the power cord of the PCI expansion unit connected. Hot maintenance can be performed for the FRUs to be maintained by using the ioxadm or cfgadm command.
Cold Maintenance
Maintenance is performed with the power cord of the PCI expansion unit disconnected. Cold maintenance can be performed for all the FRUs of the PCI expansion unit.
Cold maintenance work varies depending on the method of releasing the link card mounted in the destination server.
  1. Releasing the link card after stopping the system
    This operation can be done when the connection destination of the PCI expansion unit is the SPARC M12-1/M12-2/M12-2S/M10-1/M10-4/M10-4S.
    Cold maintenance of the PCI expansion unit can be performed after stopping the system to which the PCI expansion unit is connected.
  2. Releasing the link card using PHP
    This operation can be done when the connection destination of the PCI expansion unit is the SPARC M12-2/M12-2S/M10-4/M10-4S and the setting for the direct I/O function is disabled.
    Cold maintenance of the PCI expansion unit can be performed after releasing the link card mounted in the destination server from the system using PCI hot plug (PHP).
  3. Releasing the link card using DR
    This operation can be done only when the connection destination of the PCI expansion unit has the building block configuration of the SPARC M12-2S/M10-4S.
    Cold maintenance of the PCI expansion unit can be performed after releasing the chassis in which the link card is mounted from the system using physical partition dynamic reconfiguration (DR).
Table 3-1 to Table 3-3 are lists of maintainable FRUs and maintenance types.
Table 3-1  When the Connection Destination of the PCI Expansion Unit is the SPARC M12-1/M10-1
-: Not maintainable
FRU Hot Maintenance Cold Maintenance Reference
PCI Express card (*1) Enabled (*2) Enabled Chapter 8
Link board - Enabled Chapter 9
Link cable - Enabled Chapter 11
Management cable - Enabled Chapter 12
Power supply unit Enabled (*3) Enabled Chapter 13
Fan unit Enabled Enabled Chapter 14
PCI tray - Enabled Chapter 15
I/O board - Enabled Chapter 16
Fan backplane - Enabled Chapter 17
*1 The types of maintenance for the PCIe card vary depending on the status of the PCIe card requiring maintenance. For details, see Table 3-5.
*2 Maintenance work is performed using PCI hot plug (PHP).
*3 This is supported only for a redundant configuration.
Table 3-2  When the Connection Destination of the PCI Expansion Unit is the SPARC M12-2/M12-2S/M10-4/M10-4S (in a Single-Unit Configuration)
-: Not maintainable
FRU Hot Maintenance Cold Maintenance Reference
PCI Express card (*1) Enabled (*2) Enabled Chapter 8
Link board Enabled (*3) Enabled Chapter 9
Link cable Enabled (*3) Enabled Chapter 11
Management cable Enabled (*3) Enabled Chapter 12
Power supply unit Enabled (*4) Enabled Chapter 13
Fan unit Enabled Enabled Chapter 14
PCI tray - Enabled Chapter 15
I/O board - Enabled Chapter 16
Fan backplane - Enabled Chapter 17
*1 The types of maintenance for the PCIe card vary depending on the status of the PCIe card requiring maintenance. For details, see Table 3-5.
*2 Maintenance work is performed using PCI hot plug (PHP). Combined with dynamic SR-IOV or the dynamic reconfiguration function for PCIe end point devices, it also enables active maintenance of a PCIe card assigned as the SR-IOV virtual function or PCIe end point, to an I/O domain.
*3 It is necessary to use PCI Hot Plug (PHP) to release the link card mounted on a destination server from the system. If the setting for the direct I/O function is enabled, then maintenance must be performed with the system powered off because the link card cannot use PHP.
*4 This is supported only for a redundant configuration.
Table 3-3  When the Connection Destination of the PCI Expansion Unit is the SPARC M12-2S/M10-4S (in a Building Block Configuration)
-: Not maintainable
FRU Hot Maintenance Cold Maintenance Reference
PCI Express card (*1) Enabled (*2) Enabled Chapter 8
Link board Enabled (*3) Enabled Chapter 9
Link cable Enabled (*3) Enabled Chapter 11
Management cable Enabled (*3) Enabled Chapter 12
Power supply unit Enabled (*4) Enabled Chapter 13
Fan unit Enabled Enabled Chapter 14
PCI tray - Enabled Chapter 15
I/O board - Enabled Chapter 16
Fan backplane - Enabled Chapter 17
*1 The types of maintenance for the PCIe card vary depending on the status of the PCIe card requiring maintenance. For details, see Table 3-6.
*2 Maintenance work is performed using PCI hot plug (PHP). Combined with dynamic SR-IOV or the dynamic reconfiguration function for PCIe end point devices, it also enables active maintenance of a PCIe card assigned as the SR-IOV virtual function or PCIe end point, to an I/O domain.
*3 It is necessary to use PCI Hot Plug (PHP) to release the link card mounted on a destination server from the system. If the setting for the direct I/O function is enabled, the link card cannot use PHP. So, release the link card from the system using physical partition dynamic reconfiguration (DR).
*4 This is supported only for a redundant configuration.

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