Sun Fire X4470

Sun Fire X4470
Network Server
IBM

01 Jul 2010
132918

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
With it's 64 DIMM slots and 10 PCIe2 slots, the Sun Fire X4470 delivers the features needed to consolidate web application servers and collaboration tools, as well as batch processing and enterprise performance management workloads by having a large virtualization capacity, extreme I/O and network bandwidth, large memory footprint and integrated Sun Flash Modules.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	P1.1
BIOS/uEFI:	09012511
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Processor X7550 2.0 GHz
RAM:	512 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	8 PCI Express X8 Serial 5 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X4
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2100
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel Integrated 82801JI ICH10 , Serial ATA (SATA) LSI Logic MegaRAID® SAS 9260-8i , Serial SCSI (SAS) LSI Logic LSISAS2008 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Marvell® SD88SA02 , Serial ATA (SATA) 2 Seagate® ST914602SSUN146G , Serial SCSI (SAS) 2 Sun ST930003SSUN300G , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	Teac DV-W28SS-R , Serial ATA (SATA)
Floppy Type:	NONE
USB Keyboard:	American Megatrends Inc. Virtual Keyboard and Mouse
USB Mouse:	American Megatrends Inc. Virtual Keyboard and Mouse
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.5.0-0.30

Config Notes

Serial/USB/VGA port(s): provided through KVM connector console breakout cable which supplies one RS232 serial port, one VGA port and two USB ports.
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 0.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows Server 2016 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.4.exe), the virtio network drivers were used during testing.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to one of the SLES 12 guests. One of the integrated Intel Ethernet Controller I350-AM2 adapters was used in this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


4 Intel 82576 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 116120
	Checksum: 384f7df9f6046f20813724fd8b777e72

Intel Integrated 82801JI ICH10
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 57264
	Checksum: e8a95d74b2f76b30706e49b9f192fa60

LSI Logic MegaRAID® SAS 9260-8i
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Apr-2009	Driver Size: 60088
	Checksum: 14a3ed2367537b98bedf8f008bd002d5

LSI Logic LSISAS2008
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mpt2sas.ko
	Driver Date: 31-Aug-2009	Driver Size: 241648
	Checksum: 1017264430d3569273b95d8c61686bf0

ASPEED AST2100
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: swrast_dri.so
	Driver Date: 24-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 2263056
	Checksum: 40a094654e152214f99275ca56b4f860

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast_drv.so
	Driver Date: 25-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 56064
	Checksum: f3fc78f7eaf33809681be68203b4379a

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Sun Fire X4470 - Yes Bulletin 132918 | SUSE