Sun Fire X4140

Sun Fire X4140
Network Server
IBM

23 Sep 2010
133649

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
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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:	NVIDIA® MCP55 Pro , Serial ATA (SATA) Sun SG-XPCIE8SAS-I-Z , Serial SCSI (SAS)
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

Install: System installed using the internal DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where a network adapter was given to the SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. An added network adapter, Intel® PRO/1000 PM (82571EB) Dual-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller, was used in this testing.
SLES Virtual Machine Guests Setting: Cache mode was set to "none" for NIC tests to succeed. This setting is found under Virtual machine details > Disk > Advance Options > Performance Options.
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), and the virtio network drivers were used during testing.
Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 5.

Referenced Bulletins
139866

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 NVIDIA® MCP55 Pro Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: forcedeth.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 83808
	Checksum: 5a41aa70d1ad5640ffa923883faf7a5a

NVIDIA® MCP55 Pro
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: sata_nv.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 43616
	Checksum: c84a2f474e895f1d862f1423fe8e10a8

Sun SG-XPCIE8SAS-I-Z
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mptsas.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 89736
	Checksum: a305bf04c07867149c163920c96006ae

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 X4140 - Yes Bulletin 133649 | SUSE