Sun Fire X4540

Sun Fire X4540
Network Server
IBM

12 Aug 2010
133347

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Power 12 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 12

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86
	Arch: 32pae	Mode: Paravirtualized	SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 10
Windows 2003 Server R2
	SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows 2003	Arch: 32	Mode: Fully Virtualized
Windows 2003 Server R2
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized	SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows 2003

Product Description
http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/servers/x86/031210.htm

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	501-7819-05
BIOS/uEFI:	0ABNF040
CPU:	2 AMD Quad-Core Opteron™ Model 2384 2.70 GHz
RAM:	128 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	3 PCI Express X8 Serial 4 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2000
Host Bus Adapter:	6 LSI Logic LSISAS1068E 8-port SAS Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	48 Sun HDS7250SASUN500G , Serial ATA (SATA)
USB Keyboard:	Sun Microsystems
USB Mouse:	Sun Microsystems
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.6.0-34.1

Config Notes

Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were changed based on the content in the following knowledge-base article: https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=3374462
Headless configuration - no graphics adapter. System configured using IBM remote Hardware Management Console (HMC) for graphics, keyboard and mouse
Install: The SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server install was performed using a network install method
Power management: The System/Processor dynamic CPU frequency scaling functionality in SLES is not supported on POWER8 (PowerVM) as this functionality is provided by the POWER8 hardware itself.
Maintenance updates: the SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Power 12 SP1 system requires the following two maintenance updates, 1) kernel-default-3.12.57-60.35.1.ppc64le.rpm. The system can be updated after the initial install. This update can be downloaded from: https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=qd0PaT_bWqU~ and 2) kexec-tools 1056 update available at: https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=8uWJi0YOv-o~.

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST2000
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast_drv.so
	Driver Date: 21-Apr-2008	Driver Size: 49080
	Checksum: cc27bbc39f5b8aef80382c7e0398b0cb

4 NVIDIA® MCP55 Pro Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: forcedeth.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 44200
	Checksum: 4af2f84d4fdcfed0962aafad3ebe8afd

6 LSI Logic LSISAS1068E 8-port SAS Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mptsas.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 76208
	Checksum: 3d361cbbee63d442101031975688ddfa

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:

IBM
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
www.ibm.com

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Sun Fire X4540 - Yes Bulletin 133347 | SUSE