Sun Server X2-8

Sun Server X2-8
Network Server
Lenovo

10 Jul 2012
137907

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 for AMD64 & Intel64

Other Products:

SUSE® Linux Micro 6.2

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SLES 10	Arch: 32	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SLES 10	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 1 for SLES 11	Arch: 32pae	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
See http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/servers/x86/index.html and search for Sun Server X2-8 (formerly Sun Fire X4800 M2) as a reference.

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:	Serial 8 PCI Express X8 2 USB Ports
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

Kdump (SLE12SP3): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=163M,high crashkernel=112M,low using YaST.
Install: System installed using the internal DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader configuration. Configuration does not support PXE boot/install. Hard disk configuration: RAID 1.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 12 SP3 guest. One of the internal Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T2 adapters was used in this testing.
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), the virtio network drivers were used during 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 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

4 Oracle America Inc. Dual 10GbE SFP+ PCIe ExpressModule
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbe.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 204400
	Checksum: 90b8289844bbcdce7677d3e21d3bd4a0

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: 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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