Appendix A Precautions and Restrictions
A.5 Precaution on OS Boot From FCode
Appendix A Precautions and Restrictions
A.1
Restrictions on Oracle VM Server for SPARC
Do not use the following functions to assign the Fujitsu 3.2 TB Flash Accelerator Card to a guest domain.
Dynamic PCIe buses assignment function
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Dynamic reconfiguration function for PCIe endpoint devices
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Direct I/O function (function that assigns direct I/Os, DIOs, or PCle endpoints to domains)
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A.2
Restrictions on PHP/PPAR DR and Active
Replacement
Active replacement and active addition/removal with the PCI Hot Plug (PHP) and physical partition dynamic
reconfiguration (PPAR DR) functions cannot be used.
A.3
Disk Label Precaution
Only the EFI disk label is supported because the size of the Fujitsu 3.2 TB Flash Accelerator Card is a disk
volume exceeding 2 TB.
A.4
LBA Format Precaution
The Fujitsu 3.2 TB Flash Accelerator Card supports only LBA formats with a block size of 512 bytes.
A.5
Precaution on OS Boot From FCode
On the SPARC M10, if you try to boot/reboot a logical domain after a certain amount of time has elapsed(*)
since physical partition (PPAR) power-on, the boot/reboot may fail.
This phenomenon does not occur on the SPARC M12.
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