PRIMERGY® RX4770 M1

PRIMERGY® RX4770 M1
Network Server
IBM

02 Jun 2014
141515

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 for IBM Power

Other Products:

SUSE® Linux Micro 6.2

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: 32pae	Mode: Fully Virtualized
Windows Server 2008
	SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2008	Arch: 32	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
The FUJITSU Server PRIMERGY RX4770 M1 is an industry-standard x86 system with four sockets, providing superior levels of performance, scalability and efficiency. This combination turns the server into the ideal platform for running databases and transactional applications, business intelligence (BI) workloads, back-end and in-memory databases, as well as data-intensive applications. Plus, it substantially simplifies carrying out infrastructure-related tasks like server virtualization and consolidation. Featuring the Intel® Xeon® processor E7 v2 product family with up to 60 cores dramatically increase the compute performance and deliver more efficient business results. With up to triple the previous generation’s memory capacity, the system can easily handle complex, data-intensive workloads such as in-memory databases and real-time business analytics. The PRIMERGY RX4770 M1 support 12 Gbit/s SAS/SATA controller with optional FBU and up to eight hot-plug storage drives providing faster access to more data. An onboard dual-channel 10 Gbit/s Ethernet controller, plus eleven PCI-Express Gen3 slots help to increase bandwidth for even faster time to business insights. With built-in redundancy and hot-pluggable components, as well as advanced business-critical RAS features such as Resilient System- and Memory Technologies, the RX4770 M1 provides higher availability and uptime. Virtualization and consolidation of IT resources offers many benefits, but often also leads to increased expenses for server administration. Thus the PRIMERGY RX4770 M1 delivers state-of-the-art management capabilities with the new integrated Remote Management Controller (iRMC S4) offering a variety of user-friendly functions to ensure a faster and more cost-effective infrastructure management, no matter whether the server is located in the server-room next door or in another part of the world. For more detailed information, please refer to the data sheet at: http://docs.ts.fujitsu.com/dl.aspx?id=8d3c9645-e2ae-4a64-b0a0-76a969dccf5d

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	D3342
BIOS/uEFI:	BIOS/UEFI-Legacy Boot: R1.6.0 (05/09/2014)
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-4890 v2 2.80 GHz
RAM:	6 TB
Ports and Bus Types:	Serial 5 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X16 9 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200e
Host Bus Adapter:	Fujitsu RAID Ctrl SAS 6G 1GB (D3116C) , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	4 Seagate® Savvio® 15K.3, 2.5-inch 300 GB 15K 6Gb/s SAS (ST9300653SS) , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.2.0-5.10

Config Notes

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.
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=20G dom0_max_vcpus=20.
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 9105 (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: 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.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
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
141627

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200e
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 30-Mar-2013	Driver Size: 190720
	Checksum: cbbe7ba695cb37835f3c7d4e79ec43c5
	Driver Version: 1.4.11

Intel 82599EB 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbe.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 349319
	Checksum: 6b985656ab852761e6d44809093f0150
	Driver Version: 3.11.33-k

Intel X540-AT2 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbe.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 349319
	Checksum: 6b985656ab852761e6d44809093f0150
	Driver Version: 3.11.33-k

Fujitsu RAID Ctrl SAS 6G 1GB (D3116C)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 128775
	Checksum: 36c2f0e7dab4f4c97ea2e019d1fb44da
	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:

IBM
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