Sun Fire X4470 M2

Sun Fire X4470 M2
Network Server
Hitachi Data Systems Corporation

13 Jun 2012
137739

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 2 for SLES 11	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SLES 10	Arch: 32pae	Mode: Paravirtualized
Windows Server 2008
	SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2008	Arch: 32	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
With it's 64 DIMM slots and 10 PCIe2 slots, the Sun Fire X4470 M2 delivers the features needed to consolidate web application servers and collaboration tools, as well as batch processing and enterprise performance management workloads by having a large virtualization capacity, extreme I/O and network bandwidth, large memory footprint and integrated Sun Flash Modules.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	P2
BIOS/uEFI:	16040102
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-4870 2.40 GHz
RAM:	1 TB
Ports and Bus Types:	5 USB Ports 8 PCI Express X8 2 PCI Express X4
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2000
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic MegaRAID® SAS 9261-8i , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Hitachi GST HUC106060CSS600 , Serial SCSI (SAS) Oracle America Inc. SUN ST960005SSUN600G , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	Teac DV-W28SS-R , USB
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.1.0-33.2

Config Notes

The driver "htc-hfcldd" are used during testing is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver was installed from the driver update disk(DUD) "dud-htc-hfcldd-4.12.18.3146.iso" and the driver package "htc-hfcldd-kmp-default-4.12.18.3146_3.12.28_4-1.sles12.x86_64.rpm". To obtain DUD and the driver package, access to http://www.hitachi.co.jp/products/bladesymphony/download/driver/12346613.html. DUD can be used to install SUSE Linux Enterprise Server(SLES) to the SAN storage, and driver package can be installed after the SLES installation.
Install: The SLES install was performed using a virtual DVD device.
This is SAN boot only system.
The maximum CPU cores or threads when hyper threading is enabled which can be allocated from LPAR is 88.

Referenced Bulletins
144899

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST2000
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast_drv.so
	Driver Date: 04-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 96096
	Checksum: 6b25c69ddbb86230132fc6ab3ddfa705

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: swrast_dri.so
	Driver Date: 04-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 3315528
	Checksum: 649711e7978ced3725c9502be7ea9f46

2 Intel 82576 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 243416
	Checksum: 9ba8fcc0cd23ad32167370c3322415b8

LSI Logic MegaRAID® SAS 9261-8i
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 126248
	Checksum: 861a728179b7da9ddcb3e1781df51e81

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:

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation
2845 Lafayette Street
Santa Clara , CA 95050-2639
Voice: 1-408-970-1000
Fax: 1-408-727-8036
Website: www.hds.com

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Sun Fire X4470 M2 - Yes Bulletin 137739 | SUSE