Sun Fire X4240

Sun Fire X4240
Network Server
Dell Incorporated

23 Sep 2010
133661

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 10

Other Products:

Novell® Open Enterprise Server 2 Support Pack 3

Product Description
http://www.Oracle.com/

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	501-7722-06
BIOS/uEFI:	0ABMN064
CPU:	2 AMD Six-Core AMD Opteron™ 2435 2.60 GHz
RAM:	64 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	PCI Express X4 4 PCI Express X8 PCI Express X16 4 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2000
Host Bus Adapter:	NVIDIA® MCP55 Pro , Serial ATA (SATA) Sun SGXPCIESAS-R-INT-Z , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® ST914602SSUN146G , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	Samsung® TS-T632A , IDE
USB Keyboard:	SUN Type VI
USB Mouse:	SUN Type VI
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.4.0-0.21

Config Notes

Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=223M,high crashkernel=142M,low" using YaST.
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Tested as a 1-node scalable partition with 4 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 1. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=16G dom0_max_vcpus=8.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.3.exe).
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 12 FV guest. One of the Emulex VFA5 ML2 Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ adapters was used in this testing.

Referenced Bulletins
144975

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: 06-May-2008	Driver Size: 53760
	Checksum: 7c8585af5dabf4a08139e67c99be32e3

NVIDIA® MCP55 Pro
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: sata_nv.ko
	Driver Date: 06-May-2008	Driver Size: 48456
	Checksum: 51bb3045e2a272cc572d8eb94173e75b

Sun SGXPCIESAS-R-INT-Z
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: aacraid.ko
	Driver Date: 06-May-2008	Driver Size: 123736
	Checksum: f039541659e9edc97043e5e3a57bae78

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:

Dell Incorporated
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ROUND ROCK , TX 78682

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Sun Fire X4240 - Yes Bulletin 133661 | SUSE