Sun Fire X4470

Sun Fire X4470
Network Server
Hewlett Packard Enterprise

13 Aug 2010
133349

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 10	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86
	Arch: 32	Mode: Paravirtualized
Windows 2003 Server R2
	SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows 2003	Arch: 32	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:	09012511
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Processor X7550 2.0 GHz
RAM:	512 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	5 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X4 8 PCI Express X8 Serial
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 Sun ST930003SSUN300G , Serial SCSI (SAS) 2 Seagate® ST914602SSUN146G , Serial SCSI (SAS) 2 Marvell® SD88SA02 , Serial ATA (SATA)
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

Install: System installed using PXE network using UEFI boot loader. Hard disk configuration: two HDD's and two M.2 (boot drive), each configured as separate RAID 0 devices.
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 a SLES 12 SP3 guest. One of the integrated Ethernet Connection X722 for 10GBASE-T adapters was used in this testing.

Referenced Bulletins
146079

Adapters and Drivers


4 Intel 82576 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 137336
	Checksum: 2bb7a5cff522a9e0f71b05995ddb05bf

Intel Integrated 82801JI ICH10
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 51600
	Checksum: a0ff737708185a51f37be27c35121d9d

LSI Logic MegaRAID® SAS 9260-8i
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 57280
	Checksum: a1d61d128cbb86948553d80d15240a10

LSI Logic LSISAS2008
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mpt2sas.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 173024
	Checksum: b56604c8477e2a631b9cd4d33fa9c9fe

ASPEED AST2100
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast_drv.so
	Driver Date: 21-Apr-2008	Driver Size: 49080
	Checksum: cc27bbc39f5b8aef80382c7e0398b0cb

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:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise
1701 E Mossy Oaks Rd
Spring , TX 77389

586327

Sun Fire X4470 - Yes Bulletin 133349 | SUSE