Sun Server X3-2L

Sun Server X3-2L
Network Server
Oracle America Inc.

10 Jul 2012
137917

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
Oracle''s Sun Server X3-2L (formerly Sun Fire X4270 M3) , powered by two of the highest performing CPUs from the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product family, 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:	18012201
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2660 2.20 GHz
RAM:	512 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	PCI Express X16 5 PCI Express X8 6 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2300
Host Bus Adapter:	Oracle America Inc. SUN STORAGETEK 8 Gb (FC), SG-XPCIE2FC-EM8-Z , FibreChannel Oracle America Inc. SUN STORAGETEK 8 Gb (FC), SG-XPCIE2FC-QF8-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)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Seagate® ST33000SSSUN3.0T , Serial SCSI (SAS) 2 Hitachi H106030SDSUN300G , Serial SCSI (SAS) 2 Seagate® ST330000FSUN300G , FibreChannel
USB Keyboard:	American Megatrends Inc. Virtual Keyboard
USB Mouse:	American Megatrends Inc. Virtual Mouse
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.1.0-33.2

Config Notes

Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=10G dom0_max_vcpus=10.
Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8973 and kernel update 9329 (x86-64) are required and were installed during certification testing.
VM Driver Pack: All 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).
SUSE Driver Kit: TheUnisys E7000 7600R G4 Bootable 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/unisys/Unisys_E7000_7600R_G4/sle11-sp3-x86_64/1.0/install-readme.html
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
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.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where two of the host network adapters were given, one each, to the FV SLES 11 SP3 i586 and FV SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guests. Two of the Intel® I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapters was used during this testing.

Referenced Bulletins
141670

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST2300
	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

2 Intel X540-AT2 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbe.ko
	Driver Date: 06-Dec-2011	Driver Size: 358256
	Checksum: e9c651aef2f4b223a0ed12d3bdede617

Oracle America Inc. SUN STORAGETEK 8 Gb (FC), SG-XPCIE2FC-EM8-Z
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: lpfc.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 777360
	Checksum: fe839bf44ba9a838b2f43b747ea6e389

Oracle America Inc. SUN STORAGETEK 8 Gb (FC), SG-XPCIE2FC-QF8-Z
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: qla2xxx.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 445832
	Checksum: cd67787d698b9e84b01afc1e1bd06835

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: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 86816
	Checksum: e134db428c0a19236892c62123cdb779

Oracle America Inc. SUN STORAGE 6 Gb SAS PCIe, SGX-SAS6-INT-Z
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mpt2sas.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 216504
	Checksum: 4f4d893c3e89e8f971c1ed835b470a5c

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:

Oracle America Inc.
500 Oracle Parkway
Redwood Shores , CA 94065
Website: www.Oracle.com

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Sun Server X3-2L - Yes Bulletin 137917 | SUSE