SunFire X4170

SunFire X4170
Network Server
Lenovo

06 May 2010
131920

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 5 for SUSE® SLES 15

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 10	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86
	Arch: 32	Mode: Paravirtualized
Windows 2003 Server R2
	SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows 2003	Arch: 32	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
The SunFire X4170 is a versatile enterprise server that delivers high performance for your mission-critical applications, such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and databases. Its compact, energy-efficient 1RU design delivers savings on energy and space.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	P2
BIOS/uEFI:	07060223
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor X5570 2.93 GHz
RAM:	72 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	5 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X8 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2000
Host Bus Adapter:	Sun SGXPCIESAS-R-INT-Z , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® ST973451SS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	TSST TS-T633A , USB
USB Keyboard:	American Megatrends Inc. Virtual Keyboard and Mouse
USB Mouse:	American Megatrends Inc. Virtual Keyboard and Mouse
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.5.0-0.30

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard Drive Configuration: RAID 0. Manually created UEFI boot entry.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=174M,high crashkernel=122M,low" using YaST.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows Server 2016 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.4.exe), the virtio network drivers were used during testing.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where one of the host network adapters was given to a SLES 12 SP2 x86-64 guest. One of the integrated Emulex BE3 controller dual-port GbE adapter was used during this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST2000
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast_drv.so
	Driver Date: 25-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 56064
	Checksum: f3fc78f7eaf33809681be68203b4379a

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: swrast_dri.so
	Driver Date: 24-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 2263056
	Checksum: 40a094654e152214f99275ca56b4f860

4 Intel Integrated 82575EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 116216
	Checksum: 20acf909a146e85ce07528dc0e2b107e

Sun SGXPCIESAS-R-INT-Z
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: aacraid.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 125640
	Checksum: d57d854d9cdaa0b8b3fadc832c51c726

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:

Lenovo
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
support.lenovo.com

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