 | Sun Blade™ X8440 Server Module
Network Server Sun Microsystems, Inc. | 29 Jan 2009
104565 |
YES CERTIFIED with the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 9 for AMD64® & Intel® EM64T® Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 9 |
Product Description
Sun's Sun Blade™ X8440 Server Module: A fast, reliable, and expandable two or four-way x64 server that runs SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server for x86_64. The Sun Blade X8440 Server Module is a key component in standardizing your infrastructure, helping to lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and simplifying data center management, all without compromise. Powered by either two or four (multi-core) AMD Opteron processors, 6 (x8) PCIe interfaces, and up to 128GB of DDR-2 system memory the Sun Blade X8440 Server Module provides the compute power and I/O expandability required to meet your needs now and into the future.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Blade Module |
| Mother Board Revision: | P1.0B |
| BIOS: | 04031800 |
| CPU: | 4 AMD Dual-Core Opteron™ Model 8222 3.0 GHz |
| RAM: | 128 GB |
| Bus Type: | 6 PCI Express X8 2 USB Ports |
| Video Adapter: | ATI® ES1000 |
| Host Bus Adapter: | QLogic
QLE2462: 4Gbps Dual Port Fibre Channel to PCI-Express HBA
, FibreChannel LSI Logic® LSI SAS 1064 , Serial SCSI (SAS) Emulex Corporation LPE11002 , FibreChannel |
| Hard Disk Drive: | 2 Seagate® ST973402SS , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| Storage Area Network (SAN) Device: | Sun StorEdge 3510 |
| Floppy Type: | Diskless |
| USB Keyboard: | ACER KB2971 |
| USB Mouse: | ACER MS.SBJ01 |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 6.1.0-0.28 |
Config Notes
| 1) The SLES install was performed using a network install method. |
| 2) General purpose serial port functionality is not provided by the hardware. Therefore the serial port is supported only for accessing the ILOM and the serial port certification test has been waived. |
Adapters and Drivers
| 6 Intel® Intel® PRO/1000 EB Network Connection with I/0 Acceleration | |||||||||
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | File Name: e1000.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 10-Dec-2007 | File Size: 339952 | ||||||||
| Checksum: db01fc589d718edb6a38ad69babda0d6 | |||||||||
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| QLogic QLE2462: 4Gbps Dual Port Fibre Channel to PCI-Express HBA | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | File Name: qla2400.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 10-Dec-2007 | File Size: 225208 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 49d743bb5dfd44def0ca586a58d55708 | |||||||||
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| LSI Logic® LSI SAS 1064 | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | File Name: mptsas.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 10-Dec-2007 | File Size: 49456 | ||||||||
| Checksum: aa5d1ad1858de6de4d9ab5799d45c3e9 | |||||||||
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| Emulex Corporation LPE11002 | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | File Name: lpfc.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 10-Dec-2007 | File Size: 363064 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 8448645a9c19b40f85f898bc160b9faf | |||||||||
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| ATI® ES1000 | |||||||||
| Driver Type: Video Driver | File Name: radeon_dri.so | ||||||||
| File Date: 17-Oct-2007 | File Size: 1743645 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 7e7a55169a4c55a98acc6d65464d50b8 | |||||||||
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The term YES CERTIFIED applies only to the exact configuration documented in this bulletin. Components including LAN adapters, host bus adapters and other individually YES CERTIFIED components may be exchanged for other YES CERTIFIED components. For more information on swapping YES CERTIFIED components, please access the following web page:
http://developer.novell.com/devres/system/policy/exchange.htm
For more information regarding the specific test configuration, please contact:
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