Sun Fire X4470

Sun Fire X4470
Network Server
Lenovo

09 Aug 2010
133317

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLED 12

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

3 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

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:	09020106
CPU:	8 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-8890 v3 2.50 GHz
RAM:	512 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	Serial 5 USB Ports 8 PCI Express X8 2 PCI Express X2
Video Adapter:	Hitachi Virtual VGA compatible controller
Host Bus Adapter:	Hitachi 16Gb 2-port Fibre Channel adapter , FibreChannel
Storage Area Network (SAN) Device:	Hitachi Data Systems Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage (AMS2300)
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 6.6.0-34.1

Config Notes

Install: SLES OS installation was performed by using a virtual DVD device.
The driver "i40e" that was used during testing is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver was installed from "intel-i40e-2.1.26-20.1.x86_64.rpm" and "intel-i40e-kmp-default-2.1.26_k4.4.21_69-20.1.x86_64.rpm". To obtain the driver package, access to https://sso.hds.com and click on "Support Connect", then select "Product Downloads". RPM can be used to install SUSE Linux Enterprise Server(SLES) to the SAN storage, and driver package can be installed after the SLES installation.
The driver "megaraid_sas" that was used during testing is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver was installed from "lsi-megaraid_sas-kmp-default-07.704.04.00_k4.4.21_69-6.1.x86_64.rpm". To obtain the driver package, access to https://sso.hds.com and click on "Support Connect", then select "Product Downloads". RPM can be used to install SUSE Linux Enterprise Server(SLES) to the SAN storage, and driver package can be installed after the SLES installation
All ports of Intel XXV710-DA2 Ethernet Network Adapters were tested at 25Gb/s speed.

Referenced Bulletins
146556

Adapters and Drivers


Intel Ethernet Server Adapter X520-2 (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbevf.ko
	Driver Date: 26-Oct-2015	Driver Size: 2176617
	Checksum: e57025fba6973479528ad3a7cf9fd3e9
	Driver Version: 2.16.4

Hitachi 16Gb 2-port Fibre Channel adapter
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: hfcldd.ko
	Driver Date: 07-Oct-2015	Driver Size: 11620897
	Checksum: 4a68c22bea8194ffd51d459ad4c4c963
	Driver Version: 4.12.18.3146

Hitachi Virtual VGA compatible controller
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: fbdev_drv.so
	Driver Date: 01-Jul-2014	Driver Size: 23624
	Checksum: b0bcae2b3561015d3e6d1b7b1720623c
	Driver Version: 0.4.4

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: modesetting_drv.so
	Driver Date: 06-Aug-2014	Driver Size: 44472
	Checksum: f212c9276b4bce5820bfe4500db351e9
	Driver Version: 0.9.0

The term SUSE YES 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

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Sun Fire X4470 - Yes Bulletin 133317 | SUSE