Sun Fire X4270 M3

Sun Fire X4270 M3
Network Server
IBM

05 Jul 2012
137886

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 11 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 2 for SLES 11	Arch: 32	Mode: Paravirtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 2 for SLES 11	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
Windows Server 2008
	SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2008	Arch: 32	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
Oracle's Sun Fire X4270 M3 server, powered by two of the highest performing CPUs from the Intel Xeon processors family, the E5-2690, is the ideal system for clustered databases and virtualized business applications. This server uses a 2U enclosure and is available in three flexible chassis configurations, offering superior scalability with terabytes of storage and six PCIe 3.0 expansion slots. The four onboard 10 GbE ports provide ten times faster network throughput than 1 GbE ports and reduce cabling, increase data throughput and save PCIe slots for other peripherals. System performance and power efficiency are maximized with flash storage options that deliver high I/O performance and reduced energy consumption.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	P1.1
BIOS/uEFI:	18021300
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2690 2.90 GHz
RAM:	512 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	6 USB Ports 5 PCI Express X8 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2300
Host Bus Adapter:	Oracle America Inc. SUN STORAGETEK 8 Gb (FC), SG-XPCIE2FC-EM8-Z , FibreChannel Oracle America Inc. SUN STORAGE 6 Gb SAS PCIe RAID, SGX-SAS6-R-INT-Z , Serial SCSI (SAS) Oracle America Inc. SUN STORAGE 6 Gb SAS PCIe, SGX-SAS6-INT-Z , Serial SCSI (SAS) Oracle America Inc. SUN STORAGETEK 8 Gb (FC), SG-XPCIE2FC-QF8-Z , FibreChannel
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Hitachi H106030SDSUN300G , Serial SCSI (SAS) 2 Seagate® ST330000FSUN300G , FibreChannel 2 Seagate® ST33000SSSUN3.0T , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.1.0-33.2

Config Notes

SUSE Driver Kit: The ibm_x6-sle11sp3-x86_64 driver kit is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver kit was installed during the SLES install process as an initial bootable iso image. This driver must be downloaded and installed before the SLES install. To obtain the driver go to: http://drivers.suse.com/ibm/IBM-X6/sle11-sp3/install-readme.html.
Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8973 and kernel update 9105 (x86-64) are required and were installed during certification testing.
Install: System installed using the internal USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo 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 R2 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter in the elilo.conf file was changed from 128 to 256 (crashkernel=512M-:256M) for kdump to function correctly.
Hard disk configuration: RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 5.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where one of the host network adapters was given to the FV SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. One of the Intel® I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapters was used during this testing.

Referenced Bulletins
141509

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST2300
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast_drv.so
	Driver Date: 04-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 96096
	Checksum: 6b25c69ddbb86230132fc6ab3ddfa705

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: swrast_dri.so
	Driver Date: 04-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 3315528
	Checksum: 649711e7978ced3725c9502be7ea9f46

2 Intel X540-AT2 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbe.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 303760
	Checksum: 1a2e823c44188856a3af53632c8495a4
	Driver Version: 3.3.8-k2

Oracle America Inc. SUN STORAGETEK 8 Gb (FC), SG-XPCIE2FC-EM8-Z
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: lpfc.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 989840
	Checksum: 587c3f31bb17d5fc2a4f889dd06acaeb

Oracle America Inc. SUN STORAGE 6 Gb SAS PCIe RAID, SGX-SAS6-R-INT-Z
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 126248
	Checksum: 861a728179b7da9ddcb3e1781df51e81

Oracle America Inc. SUN STORAGE 6 Gb SAS PCIe, SGX-SAS6-INT-Z
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mpt2sas.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 253048
	Checksum: 4a7cf02da81e903522d10faa86f90da3

Oracle America Inc. SUN STORAGETEK 8 Gb (FC), SG-XPCIE2FC-QF8-Z
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: qla2xxx.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 618408
	Checksum: cb592286792f5dfdb9bb1b99244b0495

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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