Sun Blade X6270 Server Module

Sun Blade X6270 Server Module
Network Server
Lenovo

13 Jul 2010
133000

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 15

Product Description
Sun Blade X6270 Server Module: Powered by the Intel® Xeon® Processor X5570, the Sun Blade X6270 server module helps customers scale their compute resources without adding complexity. The Sun Blade X6270 server module leverages PCIe2 technology to provide up to 270Gb/s of ultra fast I/O bandwidth. With its 18 DIMM slots and four drive bays this two socket blade server offers streamlined management, breakthrough performance, and superior energy efficiency to run the most demanding workloads including Web, enterprise, database, grid and virtualization.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	P1.Last
BIOS/uEFI:	07023900
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor X5570 2.93 GHz
RAM:	72 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 PCI Express X8 2 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2000
Host Bus Adapter:	Sun STK RAID REM , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Seagate® ST9146802SS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
USB Keyboard:	American Megatrends Inc. Virtual Keyboard and Mouse
USB Mouse:	American Megatrends Inc. Virtual Keyboard and Mouse
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.4.0-0.21

Config Notes

Installation Kit: The lenovo_servers_thinksystem-sle12sp2-x86_64-1.0.iso installation kit is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. This installation kit must be downloaded and used to start the SLES installation. To obtain the installation kit go to: https://drivers.suse.com/lenovo/Lenovo-ThinkSystem/sle-12-sp2-x86_64/1.0/.
Install: System installed using the internal DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Disk configuration: HDD and M.2 (boot) drives configured as separate RAID 1. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=16G dom0_max_vcpus=16.
Kdump (SLE12SP2): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=172M,high crashkernel=122M,low using YaST.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 12 FV guest. One of the integrated Ethernet Connection X722 for 1GbE adapters was used in this testing.

Referenced Bulletins
145833

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST2000
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast_drv.so
	Driver Date: 25-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 56064
	Checksum: f3fc78f7eaf33809681be68203b4379a

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

2 Intel 82575EB Gigabit Network Connection (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 116120
	Checksum: 384f7df9f6046f20813724fd8b777e72

Sun STK RAID REM
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: aacraid.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 125048
	Checksum: ab226fa93f734e300dfd1cdf1ff0a0a3

The term SUSE "YES" Enterprise Certified applies only to the exact configuration documented in this bulletin. For more information on hardware exchange policies, please access the following document and view the Hardware Component Exchange Guide.

https://www.suse.com/product-certification/yes-certified/certification-requirements/

For more information regarding the specific test configuration, please contact:

Lenovo
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
support.lenovo.com

584197

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