Sun Server X3-2L

Sun Server X3-2L
Network Server
NEC Corporation

12 May 2014
141483

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 15

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 11	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 11	Arch: 32	Mode: Paravirtualized
Windows 2003 Server R2
	SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows 2003	Arch: 32	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
Oracle's Sun Server X3-2L, powered by two Intel Xeon E5-2660 processors, is the ideal system for clustered databases and virtualized business applications. This server uses a 2U enclosure and offers 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:	Rev 03
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI-Legacy Boot: 18100400 (04/04/2014)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2660 2.20 GHz
RAM:	128 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	6 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X16 4 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2300
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic MegaRAID® SAS 9261-8i , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Hitachi GST HUC109060CSS600 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.2.0-5.10

Config Notes

Serial/USB/VGA port(s): provided through KVM connector console breakout cable which supplies one RS232 serial port, one VGA port and two USB ports
System was scaled up to 8-socket by joining four x880 X6 with 8S scalability connector.
SR-IOV/PCI Pass-through: Current system configuration does not support network SR-IOV or network PCI Pass-through.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 drivers are available from https://download.suse.com/ (VMDP-WIN-2.2.exe).
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters "dom0_mem=164G dom0_max_vcpus=48".
UEFI Configuration: The Processor State (p-state) setting in UEFI was changed from the default Enabled to Disabled. ( F1 Setup --> System Settings --> Processors )
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard disk configuration: JBOD

Referenced Bulletins
142692

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST2300
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: swrast_dri.so
	Driver Date: 29-May-2013	Driver Size: 14588208
	Checksum: b04453e653cab45eefe58ac419ccacb3

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast_drv.so
	Driver Date: 30-May-2013	Driver Size: 96096
	Checksum: 41733d0f905440b2b69759ee4d3dda05
	Driver Version: 0.92.2

2 Intel X540-AT2 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbe.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 346319
	Checksum: 2846e37a53524960bbcc266a96982742
	Driver Version: 3.11.33-k

LSI Logic MegaRAID® SAS 9261-8i
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 127823
	Checksum: ad23e332dab7a4378bea9f3c4b400113
	Driver Version: 06.506.00.00-rc1

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:

NEC Corporation
7-1, Shiba 5-Chome, Minato-ku
Tokyo 108-0014
JAPAN
Voice: 3-3454-1111
Fax: 3-3798-8794

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