Sun Fire X4240

Sun Fire X4240
Network Server
IBM

23 Sep 2010
133693

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

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

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	602-3793-07
BIOS/uEFI:	0ABMN052
CPU:	2 AMD Quad-Core Opteron™ Model 2360 SE 2.50 GHz
RAM:	128 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports Serial PCI Express X16 4 PCI Express X8 PCI Express X4
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2000
Host Bus Adapter:	NVIDIA® MCP55 Pro , Serial ATA (SATA) Sun SG-XPCIE8SAS-I-Z , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	8 Intel X25-E , Serial ATA (SATA) 8 Seagate® ST914602SSUN146G , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	TSST TS-TS632A , IDE
USB Keyboard:	SUN Type VI
USB Mouse:	SUN Type VI
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.4.0-0.21

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 1. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=10G dom0_max_vcpus=10.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter must be increased from the default value for kdump to function correctly.
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-2.2.exe).
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 12 FV guest and another virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 11 SP3 x86_64 FV guest. Two Intel I350-T4 ML2 GbE adapters were used in this testing.
Maintenance update: SLES 12 Xen kernel update 333 is required and was installed on the host during certification testing. SLES 12 kernel update 333 was installed on SLES 12 FV guest, SLES 11 SP3 kernel update 10103 was installed on SLES 11 SP3 x86_64 FV guest. 64-bit guests were tested with a maximum memory configuration of 64GB.

Referenced Bulletins
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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: 43688
	Checksum: 473c217f876cb9ae047614672a698f19

NVIDIA® MCP55 Pro
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: sata_nv.ko
	Driver Date: 06-May-2008	Driver Size: 36168
	Checksum: 3f187f3ee7ad9981e00b6b8a3718bcbc

Sun SG-XPCIE8SAS-I-Z
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mptsas.ko
	Driver Date: 06-May-2008	Driver Size: 55808
	Checksum: 94fed3f36010065655cf2b92c67ff600

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 X4240 - Yes Bulletin 133693 | SUSE