Sun Fire X4170 M2

Sun Fire X4170 M2
Network Server
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd

22 Nov 2010
134117

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 10	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86
	Arch: 32	Mode: Paravirtualized
Windows 2003 Server R2
	SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows 2003	Arch: 32	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
The new Sun Fire X4170 M2 is a robust enterprise class server that packs excellent price/performance, maximum energy and space efficiencies in a dense 1RU form factor for running IT infrastructure applications (file/print, DHCP, security) as well as collaborative applications (email, enterprise 2.0) either in datacenters or at departmental sites or branch offices.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	P1.Last
BIOS/uEFI:	08040110
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor X5680 3.33 GHz
RAM:	144 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	PCI Express X16 2 PCI Express X8 5 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2100
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic LSISAS2008 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	24 Sun ST930003SSUN300G , Serial SCSI (SAS)
USB Keyboard:	Sun Type 7
USB Mouse:	Sun Type 7
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.6.0-34.1

Config Notes

SUSE update ISO: The SLES-11-SP3-MINI-ISO-power8.iso is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. This update must be downloaded and used before SUSE Linux Enterprise Server install. To obtain the driver go to: http://drivers.suse.com/ibm/IBM-POWER/sle11-sp3/install-readme.html and review the installation instructions.
Headless configuration - no graphics adapter. System configured using IBM remote Hardware Management Console (HMC) for graphics, keyboard and mouse.
Power management: The System/Processor dynamic CPU frequency scaling functionality in SLES is not supported on POWER8 as this functionality is provided by the POWER8 hardware itself.
Required configuration: SLES 11 SP3 will run in POWER7 Compatibility mode. 'Compatibility mode' simply means that the POWER8 processor with SMT8 will act as though it were a POWER7 processor with SMT4.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were changed based on the content in the following knowledge-base article: http://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=3374462.
Install: The SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server install was performed using a network install method.
Required configuration: SLES 12 SP5 will run in POWER9 Compatibility mode. 'Compatibility mode' simply means that the POWER10 processor with SMT8 will act as though it were a POWER9 processor with SMT8.

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST2100
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: swrast_dri.so
	Driver Date: 12-Apr-2010	Driver Size: 2380528
	Checksum: ccc1c687b5bf885f56dcdea73a7076ec

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast_drv.so
	Driver Date: 12-Apr-2010	Driver Size: 60848
	Checksum: 8e4e7eec0ef3525ae067564d6cccbe56

LSI Logic LSISAS2008
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 79776
	Checksum: a4ba79aa31ae287ef1615db1852e8a5b

4 Intel 82576EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 158400
	Checksum: ae22c8a7eb02f93b94556c6531bf9d41

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:

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
Banxuegang Industrial Park Buji Longgang
Shenzhen 518129
CHINA

565376

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