Sun Fire X4800 m2

Sun Fire X4800 m2
Network Server
Lenovo

14 Jul 2011
135892

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SLES 10	Arch: 32pae	Mode: Paravirtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 1 for SLES 11	Arch: 32pae	Mode: Fully Virtualized
Windows 2003 Server R2
	SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows 2003	Arch: 32	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
See http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/servers/x86/index.html and search for x4800 as a reference. The different is x4800 m2 support Intell Westmere-EX CPU.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	541-4709-01
BIOS/uEFI:	15.01.23.00
CPU:	8 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-8870 2.40 GHz
RAM:	2 TB
Ports and Bus Types:	8 PCI Express X8 2 USB Ports Serial
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2100
Host Bus Adapter:	Oracle America Inc. Sun Storage 6Gb/sec SAS RAID REM , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® ST9300603SS Savvio® 10K.3 6-Gb/s 300-GB , Serial SCSI (SAS) Seagate® ST9600205SS , Serial SCSI (SAS) 6 Seagate® ST9146803SS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
USB Keyboard:	Sun Type 7
USB Mouse:	Sun Type 7
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.0-81.1

Config Notes

Serial/USB/VGA port(s): provided through KVM connector console breakout cable which supplies one RS232 serial port, one VGA port and two USB ports, system also has one built-in USB port.
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard disk configuration: HDD - single SATA drive, M.2 boot drive - two SSD configured as a RAID 1. The "Device model" selected for the SLES guest virtual network adapter during testing was e1000, instead of the default virtio.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 15 guest. One of the Intel Integrated Ethernet Connection X722 for 10GbE SFP+ adapters was used in this testing.

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

4 Oracle America Inc. Dual 10GbE SFP+ PCIe ExpressModule
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbe.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 204624
	Checksum: 0c20f2004f7a3dd3e45ac10d4fd370e6

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

Oracle America Inc. Sun Storage 6Gb/sec SAS RAID REM
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 87304
	Checksum: 4b912ce3d71eff482ffc1283bab5c7f0

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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