Sun Fire X4170 M2

Sun Fire X4170 M2
Network Server
IBM

22 Mar 2011
134846

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 3 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
	SP: Service Pack 1 for SLES 11	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 E5620 2.40 GHz
RAM:	144 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	5 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X8 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2100
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel Integrated 82801JR (ICH10R) , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	6 Seagate® ST9500530NS , Serial ATA (SATA)
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 using the internal DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8063 x86-64 is required and was installed during certification testing.
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters "dom0_mem=4G dom0_max_vcpus=4".
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where one of the host network adapters was given to one of the SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guests. One of the embedded Intel Ethernet Controller I350-AM4 adapters was used in this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


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

2 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

Intel Integrated 82801JR (ICH10R)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 51600
	Checksum: a0ff737708185a51f37be27c35121d9d

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
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
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Sun Fire X4170 M2 - Yes Bulletin 134846 | SUSE