Sun Blade X6270 Server

Sun Blade X6270 Server
Network Server
Fujitsu

08 Oct 2010
133826

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
Sun Blade™ X6270 Server Module: Powered by the Intel® Xeon® Processor X5560, the Sun Blade X6270 server module helps customers scale their compute resources without adding complexity. The Sun Blade X6270 server module leverages PCIe2 technology to provide up to 270Gb/s of ultra fast I/O bandwidth. With its 18 DIMM slots and four drive bays this two socket blade server offers streamlined management, breakthrough performance, and energy efficiency to run the most demanding workloads including Web, enterprise, database, grid and virtualization.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	P2
BIOS/uEFI:	07060215
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor X5560 2.80 GHz
RAM:	40 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express X8 2 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2000
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel Integrated 82801JR (ICH10R) , IDE Sun STK RAID REM , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Unigen UGB30SDC16H0 CompactFlash Card , IDE Seagate® ST973451SS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
USB Keyboard:	Sun Type 7 Keyboard
USB Mouse:	Sun Type 7 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.
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=10G dom0_max_vcpus=10.
Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8973 and kernel update 9329 (x86-64) are required and were installed during certification testing.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
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.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where two of the host network adapters were given, one each, to the FV SLES 11 SP3 i586 and FV SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guests. Two of the Intel® I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapters was used during this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Intel Integrated 82801JR (ICH10R)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 63888
	Checksum: b71ff75c0d45cba740b5c3bd6d79d1cd

ASPEED AST2000
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast_drv.so
	Driver Date: 21-Apr-2008	Driver Size: 49080
	Checksum: cc27bbc39f5b8aef80382c7e0398b0cb

2 Intel Integrated 82575EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 146768
	Checksum: 4e0faf6cbc26fd4c01b8344e7c6ec1b1

Sun STK RAID REM
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: aacraid.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 132200
	Checksum: fc7b3b4951079b8e1e654908f3b8aaa7

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:

Fujitsu
Fujitsu Technology Solutions GmbH
FTS PDG ST
Heinz-Nixdorf-Ring 1
Paderborn 33106
GERMANY

564877

Sun Blade X6270 Server - Yes Bulletin 133826 | SUSE