Sun Fire X4640

Sun Fire X4640
Network Server
IBM

06 Oct 2010
133797

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 10

Product Description
Please see http://www.Oracle.com for more information.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	511-1387-07
BIOS/uEFI:	0ABSF007
CPU:	8 AMD Six-Core AMD Opteron™ 8435 2.60 GHz
RAM:	512 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 PCI Express X8 2 PCI Express X4 2 64-bit/100MHz PCI-X 4 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	ATI Mach64
Host Bus Adapter:	NVIDIA® NFORCE-CK804 , Serial ATA (SATA) LSI Logic LSI SAS 1064 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® ST9146803SS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	TSST TS-T633A , Serial ATA (SATA)
USB Keyboard:	Sun SUB keyboard
USB Mouse:	Sun SUB mouse
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.5.0-0.30

Config Notes

Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter in the elilo.conf file was changed from 128 to 256 (crashkernel=512M-:256M) for kdump to function correctly.
SUSE Driver Kit: The ibm_x6-sle11sp3-x86_64 driver kit is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver kit was installed during the SLES install process as an initial bootable iso image. This driver must be downloaded and installed before the SLES install. To obtain the driver go to: http://drivers.suse.com/ibm/IBM-X6/sle11-sp3/install-readme.html.
Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.

Referenced Bulletins
141667

Adapters and Drivers


ATI Mach64
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ati_drv.so
	Driver Date: 21-Apr-2008	Driver Size: 69056
	Checksum: 36e757a52aadba52c9173d8c21dd0035

2 Intel 82546GB Dual Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: e1000.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 298840
	Checksum: 807194b810e47194c53061332ab91fe7

NVIDIA® NFORCE-CK804
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: amd74xx.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 41136
	Checksum: f5ebccaae53f7ed53186792c0e13350f

	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: sata_nv.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 48456
	Checksum: 920a7e2c21e7b1f47726e124f6bda16b

LSI Logic LSI SAS 1064
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mptsas.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 88496
	Checksum: 6008f1ab475edc8ffc35a67a6d71c096

The term SUSE "YES" Enterprise 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
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
www.ibm.com

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Sun Fire X4640 - Yes Bulletin 133797 | SUSE