Sun Fire X4270

Sun Fire X4270
Network Server
IBM

12 Jan 2011
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SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 1 for SLES 11	Arch: 32	Mode: Paravirtualized
Windows 2003 Server R2
	SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows 2003	Arch: 32	Mode: Fully Virtualized
Windows 2003 Server R2
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized	SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows 2003

Product Description
The SunFire X4270 is a compute and storage server for powering multimedia streaming applications and data warehousing applications. The SunFire X4270 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.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	P2
BIOS/uEFI:	07060230
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor X5570 2.93 GHz
RAM:	72 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	5 USB Ports 6 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2000
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel Integrated 82801JIR (ICH10R) , Serial ATA (SATA) Sun SGXPCIESAS-R-INT-Z , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® ST914602SSUN146G , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	TSST TS-T633A , Serial ATA (SATA)
USB Keyboard:	virtual keyboard
USB Mouse:	virtual mouse
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.6.0-34.1

Config Notes

Install: PXE boot and network install requires the "?device=eth0" to be added to the install server boot process.
Xen host: system requires the latest Xen hypervisor and dom0 maintenance updates.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP1 and SLES 10 SP4 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2008 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.0.exe).
Integrated network: only two of the four ethernet adapters/ports on the I350-AM4 quad-port network controller are enabled on this system.

Referenced Bulletins
137705

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST2000
	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 Integrated 82575EB 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 82801JIR (ICH10R)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 79776
	Checksum: a4ba79aa31ae287ef1615db1852e8a5b

Sun SGXPCIESAS-R-INT-Z
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: aacraid.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 143392
	Checksum: 34e0e371a60792e16ef8982b1df4fcb3

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
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
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Sun Fire X4270 - Yes Bulletin 134510 | SUSE