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Sun Fire X4100 M2 / X4200 M2 Server Family
HardwareQ:Do the Sun Fire X4100 M2/X4200 M2 Servers come with a rackmount kit?
A:
No. A rackmount kit needs to be ordered separately. The part number is X8029A-Z. The same rackmount kit can be used on the Sun Fire X2100 M2 and Sun Fire X2200 M2 Servers.
Q: Can you rackmount the Sun Fire X4100 M2/X4200 M2 Servers without a rackmount kit?
A:
A shelf must be used if our rail kit is not utilized. There are no mounting holes in the chassis. If you use a shelf you cannot space the servers adjacently, i.e. you will lose 1U per shelf per server.
Q: Which racks can the Sun Fire X4100 M2/X4200 M2 Servers be mounted in?
A:
The Sun Fire X4100 M2/X4200 M2 Servers will fit into all current Sun racks and many non-Sun racks.
3rd-party racks which meet these criteria should support the Sun Fire X4100 M2/X4200 M2 Servers:
Q: Can different clock speed CPUs be mixed in the Sun Fire X4100 M2/X4200 M2 Servers?
A:
No
Q: Is the term Rev F equal to the term Socket F (1207)?
A:
No. Rev F refers to the processor stepping while the term Socket F is the physical socket. Rev F Opteron uses two sockets; Opteron 2000 and 8000 series use Socket F (1207) whereas Opteron 1000 series use AM2.
Q: Can Sun Fire X4100/X4200 Server memory DIMMs be interchanged with the Sun Fire X4100 M2/X4200 M2 Server memory DIMMS?
A:
No. The two server series use different DIMMs. The Sun Fire X4100 and Sun Fire X4200 use DDR1/400 registered DIMMs while the Sun Fire X4100 M2 and Sun X4200 M2 Servers take advantage of the Opteron Rev F CPU's DDR2 memory controller and use DDR2/667 DIMMs.
In all cases, the systems have 4 memory DIMM slots per CPU socket and the DIMMs should be installed in pairs for 128-bit memory access. The systems will run with only 1 DIMM installed but memory access speed will be diminished. For the Sun Fire X4100 M2 and X4200 M2 servers, the 2 GB and 4GB DIMMs are dual ranked. If more than 4 dual ranked DIMMs are populated per CPU, DDR2 clocking drops from 667 MHz to 533MHz. Q: What does the ChipKill feature provide?
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ChipKill allows a single DRAM chip to fail (not the DIMM just a DRAM chip on the DIMM, providing that the DIMM is of the type built from DRAM that have an I/O width of 4) and the system to continue running. It does have a slight performance penalty and can be disabled in the BIOS. The default is for chipkill turned on, though the OS can over-ride this setting.
Q: What size PCI cards fit into Sun Fire X4100 M2/X4200 M2 Servers?
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The Sun Fire X4100 M2 supports up to two low profile, half-length PCI-E cards while the Sun Fire X4200 M2 Server supports up to four low profile, half-length PCI-E cards and a low profile MD2 PCI-X card.
Q: In what order should the PCI slots be populated?
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For the Sun Fire X4100 M2/X4200 M2: PCI-E Slots 0, 1, 3 and 4(3 and 4 in X4200 M2 only) are 8-lane slots. The X4200 M2 also has a 64-bit/133 MHz PCI-X Slot 1. The population order isn't as important in the X4100 M2 and X4200 M2 because all slots have dedicated buses.
Q: Are PCI cards hot-swappable in Sun Fire X4100/X4100 M2/X4200/X4200 M2 Servers?
A:
No.
Q: Is there an SSL accelerator card for the Sun Fire X4100/X4100 M2/X4200/X4200 M2 Servers?
A:
There is an PCI-e SSL accelerator, P/N X6000A, for the Sun Fire X4100/X4100 M2/X4200/X4200 M2 and Sun Fire X4600/X4600 M2 Servers.
Q: Is there any graphics support on the Sun Fire X4100 M2/X4200 M2 Servers?
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There is no graphics support beyond the motherboard VGA Video, which is fixed at 1024x768 as that is the limit of the resolution that the service processor will forward through redirection.
Q: What kind of RAID is supported on the Sun Fire X4100 M2/X4200 M2 Servers?
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Only RAID 0 and 1 are supported.
Q: Is there a battery backed HW RAID card certified for Sun Fire X4100 M2/X4200 M2 Servers?
A:
No. Not at this time.
Q: What kind of cache does the LSI SAS1064 onboard RAID controller use?
A:
The embedded LSI SAS1064 has no cache. However it uses NVSRAM to store the write journaling info.
Q: Are the SAS1064 drivers available from LSI Logic?
A:
Yes. the SAS1064 drivers can be downloaded from LSI Logic. But they should be downloaded from Sun if available.
Q: Can I upgrade the LSI Firmware via the ILOM SP?
A:
No, the LSI firmware can only be upgraded via the host, there is currently no way to upgrade via the ILOM Service Processor. That means that the server has to be rebooted to boot from the upgrade CD.
Q: How do I setup RAID using the LSI setup utility?
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Q: Can the RAID Controller provide and handle hot spare disks?
A:
Yes, 2 mirrored disks + 1 3rd disk setup as hot-spare is supported.
Q: Can the RAID Controller support multiple volumes?
A:
IM (RAID1) and IS (RAID0) functionality are supported, and up to 2 volumes can be created per HBA. RAID0 volumes can be of up to 4 disks, and RAID1 volumes up to 2 disks.
The possible RAID combinations in a 4-HDD Sun Fire X4100 M2/X4200 M2 Server are:
Q: Does the RAID Controller need any special drivers to mirror the boot disks?
A:
No, the RAID controller works independently from the OS. After the BIOS screen, there will be a SCSI setup screen where you can configure the RAID controller to mirror disks before the OS kicks in.
Q: What Ethernet controller(s) are used in the Sun Fire X4100M2/X4200 M2 Servers?
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The Sun Fire X4100 M2/X4200 M2 Servers use an Nvidia CK8-04DP (NIC 0), an Nvidia IO-04 (NIC 1), and an Intel 82546GB dual-port Gigabit Ethernet (NICs 2&3).
Q: What are Sun Fire X4100 M2/X4200 M2 ethernet port mappings?
A:
Network ports on the back of the system are numbered 0, 1, 2, and 3, which may not map directly to how each operating systems numbers the ports.
The port mapping for the Sun Fire X4100 M2/X4200 M2 Servers in various supported OSs is:
SoftwareQ:What options exist for doing IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation (aka "NIC teaming", "bonding", or "EtherChannels")?
A:
Solaris 10: Use the native data-link capabilities of Solaris 10 to aggregate NIC ports from one or many different vendors.
See the dladm(1M) command for more information.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (64bit): Under Red Hat and SUSE Linux NIC ports from one or many different vendors can be bonded together. Use the following instructions: http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_79_899.shtm Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (32bit and 64bit): Use the following instructions: http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_85_6313.shtm SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, 10 (64bit): Use the following instructions: http://support.novell.com/techcenter/sdb/en/2004/09/tami_sles9_bonding_setup.html |
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