Sun Fire X4800 M2

Sun Fire X4800 M2
Network Server
IBM

25 Jul 2012
138002

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 2 for SLES 11	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SLES 10	Arch: 32pae	Mode: Paravirtualized
Windows 2003 Server R2
	SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows 2003	Arch: 32	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
See http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/servers/x86/index.html and search for x4800 as a reference. The different is x4800 m2 support Intel E7-8870 CPU.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	P2
BIOS/uEFI:	15013200
CPU:	8 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-8870 2.40 GHz
RAM:	4 TB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 USB Ports 8 PCI Express X8 Serial
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2100
Host Bus Adapter:	Oracle America Inc. Sun Storage 6Gb/sec SAS RAID REM , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Hitachi GST HUC106030CSS600 , Serial SCSI (SAS) 2 Hitachi GST HUC106060CSS600 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.1.0-33.2

Config Notes

System certification testing was performed with a SLES 15 SP6 64-bit virtual machine installed on UEFI firmware with Secure Boot enabled and configured with up to 768 CPUs and 24560 GB of memory.
VMware recommends using the Open VM Tools redistributed by operating system vendors. For additional information, see knowledge base article 2073803 at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073803.
VMware recommends using the paravirtual drivers contributed upstream and redistributed by operating system vendors . For additional information, see knowledge base article 2073804 at https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073804.
The VMware Memory Ballooning driver included in SLES 15 SP6 is auto loaded to improve the virtual machine memory performance.
VMware guest OS installation information can be found at: http://partnerweb.vmware.com/GOSIG/SLE_15.html.

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST2100
	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

4 Intel 82576 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 243416
	Checksum: 9ba8fcc0cd23ad32167370c3322415b8

Oracle America Inc. Sun Storage 6Gb/sec SAS RAID REM
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 126248
	Checksum: 861a728179b7da9ddcb3e1781df51e81

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
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
www.ibm.com

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