Sun BladeX6270 M2

Sun BladeX6270 M2
Network Server
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd

07 Dec 2010
134144

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11

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
Oracle's Sun Blade X6270 M2 Server Module: Powered by the Intel Xeon Processor X5680, the Oracle Sun Blade X6270 M2 server module helps customers scale their compute resources without adding complexity. The Oracle Sun Blade X6270 M2 server module leverages PCIe2 and SAS2 technologies to provide up to 282Gb/s of ultra fast I/O bandwith. With its 18 DIMM slots and four drive bays this two socket blade server offers streamlined management, enhanced performance, and energy efficiency to run the most demanding workloads including Web, enterprise, database, grid, and virtualization.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	P1.Last
BIOS/uEFI:	08020105
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor X5680 3.33 GHz
RAM:	144 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2100
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel Integrated 82801JR (ICH10R) , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	4 Seagate® ST9500530NS , Serial ATA (SATA)
USB Keyboard:	Sun Type7
USB Mouse:	Sun Type 7
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.6.0-34.1

Config Notes

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
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).
Maintenance updates: Xen 8479 (bnc#836239) and Linux Kernel 9329 updates are required and were installed during certification testing.
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters "dom0_mem=16G dom0_max_vcpus=16"
System was scaled up to 8-socket by joining four x880 X6 with 8S scalability connector.
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

Referenced Bulletins
141694

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST2100
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: swrast_dri.so
	Driver Date: 12-Apr-2010	Driver Size: 2380528
	Checksum: ccc1c687b5bf885f56dcdea73a7076ec

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast_drv.so
	Driver Date: 12-Apr-2010	Driver Size: 60848
	Checksum: 8e4e7eec0ef3525ae067564d6cccbe56

2 Intel 82576EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 158400
	Checksum: ae22c8a7eb02f93b94556c6531bf9d41

Intel Integrated 82801JR (ICH10R)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 79776
	Checksum: a4ba79aa31ae287ef1615db1852e8a5b

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:

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
Banxuegang Industrial Park Buji Longgang
Shenzhen 518129
CHINA

565050

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