SUN Fire X4140

SUN Fire X4140
Network Server
Hewlett-Packard Company

27 Dec 2009
131025

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM

Product Description
http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4140

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	501-7722-06
BIOS/uEFI:	0ABMN068
CPU:	2 AMD Six-Core AMD Opteron™ 2439 SE 2.80 GHz
RAM:	128 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	PCI Express X16 2 PCI Express X8 4 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2000
Host Bus Adapter:	Sun SG-XPCIE8SAS-I-Z , Serial SCSI (SAS) NVIDIA® MCP55 Pro , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® ST914602SSUN146G , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	Samsung® TS-T632A , IDE
USB Keyboard:	SUN Type VI
USB Mouse:	SUN Type VI
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.5.0-0.30

Config Notes

Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update slessp3-xen-201310-8479 (bnc#836239) is required and was installed during certification testing.
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters "dom0_mem=8G dom0_max_vcpus=8".
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
Hard disk configuration: JBOD
System was scaled up to 4-socket by joining two x880 X6 with 4S scalability connector.
6) 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.htm
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).

Referenced Bulletins
141546

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST2000
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast_drv.so
	Driver Date: 21-Apr-2008	Driver Size: 49080
	Checksum: cc27bbc39f5b8aef80382c7e0398b0cb

4 NVIDIA® MCP55 Pro Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: forcedeth.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 54144
	Checksum: 2e9bc27c8df03d9643c1ca24796f50af

Sun SG-XPCIE8SAS-I-Z
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mptsas.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 88496
	Checksum: 6008f1ab475edc8ffc35a67a6d71c096

NVIDIA® MCP55 Pro
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: sata_nv.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 48456
	Checksum: 920a7e2c21e7b1f47726e124f6bda16b

The term SUSE "YES" Enterprise 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:

Hewlett-Packard Company
HP Servers Division
20555 SH249
Houston , TX 77070

564566

SUN Fire X4140 - Yes Bulletin 131025 | SUSE