Sun Fire X4470 M2

Sun Fire X4470 M2
Network Server
IBM

29 Feb 2012
137043

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

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:	16030103
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-4870 2.40 GHz
RAM:	1 TB
Ports and Bus Types:	5 USB Ports Serial 8 PCI Express X8 2 PCI Express X4
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2000
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic MegaRAID® SAS 9260-8i , Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel Integrated 82801JIR (ICH10R) , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Hitachi GST HUC106060CSS600 , 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

This is a SAN boot only system.
Install: The SLES install was performed using a virtual DVD device.
Kernel update: SLES11 SP3 kernel update 9237 (3.0.101-0.29 x86-64) is required and was installed during certification testing.
The maximum CPU cores or threads when hyper threading is enabled which can be allocated from LPAR is 64.
The driver "htc-hfcldd" used during testing is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver was installed from the driver update disk(DUD) "dud-htc-hfcldd-4.11.18.3130.iso" and the driver package "htc-hfcldd-kmp-default-4.11.18.3130_3.0.76_0.11-1.sles11sp3.x86_64.rpm". To obtain DUD and the driver package, access to http://www.hitachi.co.jp/products/bladesymphony/download/driver/12346444.html. DUD can be used to install SUSE Linux Enterprise Server(SLES) to the SAN storage, and driver package can be installed after the SLES installation.
The driver "ixgbe" used during testing is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver "ixgbe" use Intel(R) 10GbE PCI Express Family of Server Adapters and the driver package name is "ixgbe-kmp-default-3.21.2_3.0.101_0.29-h1.x86_64.rpm". This driver package can be downloaded and installed after the SLES11SP3 install. To obtain the driver go to: http://www.hitachi.co.jp/products/bladesymphony/download/driver/12346369.html

Referenced Bulletins
143501

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: 163616
	Checksum: 74024b1a47ab8d4273bb985f18017e16

LSI Logic MegaRAID® SAS 9260-8i
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 119472
	Checksum: 7ed0552718b84ed9cfdb5809356d5ec2

Intel Integrated 82801JIR (ICH10R)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 55736
	Checksum: 44965535f993ebd7a02cc9cee3eaf1f5

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
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