Sun Fire X4275

Sun Fire X4275
Network Server
IBM

14 Sep 2010
133581

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64

Product Description
The Sun Fire X4275 is a compute and storage server for powering multimedia streaming applications and data warehousing applications. It can cut your storage cost to less than $1/GB and deliver exceptional digital streaming performance. Plus, optional Solid State Drives can speed data warehousing queries exponentially. Key Features: Rack-optimized (2RU) x64 server; One or two Intel® Xeon® processor X5570, Intel HyperThreading, and 18 memory DIMMs for maximum memory of 144GB; Twelve 3.5-inch drive bays that can support SAS or SATA Hard Disk Drives or Solid State Drives for a storage capacity of up to 12 TB today (and 24 TB in the near future); 48 lanes of PCIe 2.0 via 6 PCIe 2.0 Low Profile Slots; Comprehensive and easy-to-use system management and monitoring built into every system.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	P1.Last
BIOS/uEFI:	07013803
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor X5570 2.93 GHz
RAM:	72 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	6 PCI Express X8 3 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2000
Host Bus Adapter:	Sun SGXPCIESAS-R-INT-Z , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® ST3450856SS Cheetah 15K.6 , Serial SCSI (SAS) Seagate® ST3300656SS Cheetah 15K.5 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
USB Keyboard:	American Megatrends Inc. Virtual Keyboard and Mouse
USB Mouse:	American Megatrends Inc. Virtual Keyboard and Mouse
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.4.0-0.21

Config Notes

Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books.
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard disk configuration: RAID 1.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter must be increased from the default value for kdump to function correctly.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.2.exe).
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 12 FV guest. One of the Intel I350-T4 ML2 GbE adapters was used in this testing.

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 Intel 82575EB Gigabit Network Connection (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 06-May-2008	Driver Size: 142672
	Checksum: 0f6255089e73f2720091eedfd1bbbb16

Sun SGXPCIESAS-R-INT-Z
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: aacraid.ko
	Driver Date: 06-May-2008	Driver Size: 123736
	Checksum: f039541659e9edc97043e5e3a57bae78

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:

IBM
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Sun Fire X4275 - Yes Bulletin 133581 | SUSE