Sun Fire X4470 M2

Sun Fire X4470 M2
Network Server
Lenovo

28 Jul 2011
135941

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 12

Product Description
With it's 64 DIMM slots and 10 PCIe2 slots, the Sun Fire X4470 M2 delivers the features needed to consolidate web application servers and collaboration tools, as well as batch processing and enterprise performance management workloads by having a large virtualization capacity, extreme I/O and network bandwidth, large memory footprint and integrated Sun Flash Modules.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	P2
BIOS/uEFI:	16020101
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-4870 2.40 GHz
RAM:	1024 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	5 USB Ports Serial 2 PCI Express X4 8 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2000
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel Integrated 82801JIR (ICH10R) , Serial ATA (SATA) LSI Logic MegaRAID® SAS 9260-8i , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Sun ST930003SSUN300G , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	Teac DV-W28SS-R , Serial ATA (SATA)
USB Keyboard:	American Megatrends Inc. Virtual keyboard and mouse
USB Mouse:	American Megatrends Inc. Virtual Keyboard and mouse
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 integrated USB port). System was scaled up to 4-sockets by joining two x480 X6 with 4S scalability connector.
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard disk configuration: JBOD. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=6G dom0_max_vcpus=4.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows Server 2016 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.4.exe).
SR-IOV/PCI Pass-through: Current system configuration does not support network SR-IOV or network PCI pass-through.
Kdump (SLE12SP2): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=163M,high crashkernel=122M,low using YaST.

Referenced Bulletins
145383

Adapters and Drivers


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

2 Intel 82576 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 173032
	Checksum: e885a7dabd215037973a22c40566a353

Intel Integrated 82801JIR (ICH10R)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 68024
	Checksum: 24a55b3289035ed77c631a6370bb00e2

LSI Logic MegaRAID® SAS 9260-8i
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 131640
	Checksum: 7e4aa46a1bf609dd0be6697b574c1c82

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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Sun Fire X4470 M2 - Yes Bulletin 135941 | SUSE