Sun Fire X4450

Sun Fire X4450
Network Server
IBM

17 Aug 2010
133379

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
The Sun Fire X4450 is a 4-socket 2U X64 Rack Mount server based on the Intel Xeon X7350 processor.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	P2.0
BIOS/uEFI:	S93_3B67
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2630 v2 2.60 GHz
RAM:	28 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports 4 PCI Express X4 2 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel BD82C602J PCH , Serial ATA (SATA) IBM ServeRAID M5110e SAS/SATA Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 IBM 146 GB 10K 2.5-inch SFF HOT-SWAP , Serial SCSI (SAS) IBM 300 GB 10K 6 Gbps SAS 2.5-inch SFF HS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS) 2 IBM 73 GB 10k 2.5 Hot-Swap SAS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	Panasonic DVD-RAM UJ890 , Serial ATA (SATA)
USB Keyboard:	Sun Type 7
USB Mouse:	Sun Type 7
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.6.0-34.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed using PXE network install; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Disk configuration: SSD RAID 10, HDD RAID 5. Kdump (SLES15): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=319M,high crashkernel=172M,low using YaST. Maintenance update: the latest SLES 15 kernel update is required and was installed during certification testing.
Persistent Memory: The Persistent Memory in the system was configured in mixed mode, 90-percent (~6.8TB) in Memory Mode and 10-percent (~1.0TB) in AppDirect Mode.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 15 guest. One of the Intel Ethernet Connection X722 (Quad-Port) for 1GbE adapters was used in this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 30-Mar-2013	Driver Size: 190720
	Checksum: cbbe7ba695cb37835f3c7d4e79ec43c5
	Driver Version: 1.4.11

Intel Ethernet Controller I350-AM4 (Quad Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 287167
	Checksum: 81bfd34fb256a6fa3cab6fc2f6e9ed3e
	Driver Version: 4.1.2-k

Intel BD82C602J PCH
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 58287
	Checksum: 473c4648eb91631c32be9d18fb2e85ad
	Driver Version: 3.0

IBM ServeRAID M5110e SAS/SATA Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 128775
	Checksum: 36c2f0e7dab4f4c97ea2e019d1fb44da
	Driver Version: 06.506.00.00-rc1

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
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Sun Fire X4450 - Yes Bulletin 133379 | SUSE