Sun Fire X4470

Sun Fire X4470
Network Server
Oracle America Inc.

13 Aug 2010
133354

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 1 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:	09020106
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Processor X7550 2.0 GHz
RAM:	512 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express X2 8 PCI Express X8 5 USB Ports 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 Marvell® SD88SA02 , Serial ATA (SATA) 2 Sun ST930003SSUN300G , Serial SCSI (SAS) 2 Seagate® ST914602SSUN146G , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	Teac DV-W28SS-R , USB
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: The SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server install was performed using a network install method.
Headless configuration - no graphics adapter. System configured using IBM remote Hardware Management Console (HMC) for graphics, keyboard and mouse.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were changed based on the content in the following knowledge-base article for ppc64le: https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=3374462
Power management: The System/Processor dynamic CPU frequency scaling functionality in SLES is not supported on Power11 (PowerVM) as this functionality is provided by the Power11 hardware itself.
CPU: This system is a 2-CPU socket configuration with a 30-core dual-chip module per socket, totalling 60 cores. The Power11 2.8–3.95 GHz (Max) DCM CPUs tested each have 30 cores and, with SMT8, a total of 480 vCPU threads.

Referenced Bulletins
154747

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST2100
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: swrast_dri.so
	Driver Date: 12-Apr-2010	Driver Size: 2380528
	Checksum: ccc1c687b5bf885f56dcdea73a7076ec

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast_drv.so
	Driver Date: 12-Apr-2010	Driver Size: 60848
	Checksum: 8e4e7eec0ef3525ae067564d6cccbe56

4 Intel 82576 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 158144
	Checksum: b9a09438fe817bb29b037402742c4ec9

Intel Integrated 82801JI ICH10
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 79616
	Checksum: 9a56d2e958906e7bda5247c29d4d282f

LSI Logic MegaRAID® SAS 9260-8i
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 86816
	Checksum: e134db428c0a19236892c62123cdb779

LSI Logic LSISAS2008
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mpt2sas.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 216504
	Checksum: 4f4d893c3e89e8f971c1ed835b470a5c

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:

Oracle America Inc.
500 Oracle Parkway
Redwood Shores , CA 94065

613043

Sun Fire X4470 - Yes Bulletin 133354 | SUSE