Sun Fire X4270 M2

Sun Fire X4270 M2
Network Server
Lenovo

03 Jan 2011
134457

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 15

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	SP: Service Pack 1 for SLES 11
Windows 2003 Server R2
	SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows 2003	Arch: 32	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
The new Sun Fire X4270 M2 server offers maximum performance, scalability, and robust I/O bandwith in a compact 2RU (rack unit) enclosure. Offering the ultimate in flexibility with two storage configurations and two flash storage options, this server delivers massive data capacity and accelerated I/O performance, making it an ideal server in its class for clustered databases and virtualized workloads.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	P1.Last
BIOS/uEFI:	08030103
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor X5680 3.33 GHz
RAM:	144 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	5 USB Ports 6 PCI Express X8
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

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 0. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=8G dom0_max_vcpus=4.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=153M,high crashkernel=112M,low" using YaST.
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-2.3.exe). SR-IOV/PCI Pass-through: Current system configuration does not support network SR-IOV or network PCI pass-through.

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST2100
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast_drv.so
	Driver Date: 21-Apr-2008	Driver Size: 49080
	Checksum: cc27bbc39f5b8aef80382c7e0398b0cb

4 Intel 82576EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 137336
	Checksum: 2bb7a5cff522a9e0f71b05995ddb05bf

LSI Logic LSISAS2008
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mpt2sas.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 173024
	Checksum: b56604c8477e2a631b9cd4d33fa9c9fe

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:

Lenovo
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
support.lenovo.com

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