Sun Fire X4440

Sun Fire X4440
Network Server
IBM

04 Oct 2010
133779

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Power 12 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 12

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	602-3793-07
BIOS/uEFI:	0ABMN052
CPU:	4 AMD Dual-Core Opteron™ Model 8224 SE 3.2 GHz
RAM:	256 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:	4 Intel X25-E , Serial ATA (SATA) 4 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 6.3.0-0.6

Config Notes

Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were changed based on the content in the following knowledge-base article: https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=3374462
Headless configuration - no graphics adapter. System configured using IBM remote Hardware Management Console (HMC) for graphics, keyboard and mouse
Install: The SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server install was performed using a network install method
Power management: The System/Processor dynamic CPU frequency scaling functionality in SLES is not supported on POWER8 (PowerVM) as this functionality is provided by the POWER8 hardware itself.
Maintenance updates: the SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Power 12 SP1 system requires the following two maintenance updates, 1) kernel-default-3.12.57-60.35.1.ppc64le.rpm. The system can be updated after the initial install. This update can be downloaded from: https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=qd0PaT_bWqU~ and 2) kexec-tools 1056 update available at: https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=8uWJi0YOv-o~.

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 SG-XPCIE8SAS-I-Z
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mptsas.ko
	Driver Date: 06-May-2008	Driver Size: 68096
	Checksum: 355892f7619a44126ab381c00956cdc3

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 X4440 - Yes Bulletin 133779 | SUSE