Sun Fire X4470 M2

Sun Fire X4470 M2
Network Server
Lenovo

11 Aug 2011
136019

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 5 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 2 PCI Express X4 8 PCI Express X8 Serial
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

Install: The SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server install was performed using a network install method.
Headless configuration - no graphics adapter. System configured using IBM remote Hardware Management Console (HMC) for graphics, keyboard and mouse.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were changed based on the content in the following knowledge-base article for ppc64le: https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=3374462
Power management: The System/Processor dynamic CPU frequency scaling functionality in SLES is not supported on Power11 (PowerVM) as this functionality is provided by the Power11 hardware itself.
CPU: This system is a 4U Rack unit configuration with 2 CPU sockets. The Power11 2.8--3.95 GHz CPUs tested each have 30 cores (DCM) and with SMT8. Totaling for the system 60 cores or 480 vCPU threads.

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST2000
	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: 09-May-2010	Driver Size: 60848


2 Intel 82576 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 158144
	Checksum: b9a09438fe817bb29b037402742c4ec9

Intel Integrated 82801JIR (ICH10R)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 79616
	Checksum: 9a56d2e958906e7bda5247c29d4d282f

LSI Logic MegaRAID® SAS 9260-8i
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 86816
	Checksum: e134db428c0a19236892c62123cdb779

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 136019 | SUSE