Support for up to six Sun InfiniBand Dual Port 4x QDR PCIe Low Profile Host Channel Adapter M2 Cards (Oracle part number 4243A) has been added to a Sun Server X2-8 system running Oracle Linux 6.4 (eight socket systems only). The following configuration has been tested:
Sun Server X2-8, eight socket system with 2TB memory
Sun InfiniBand Dual Port 4x QDR PCIe Low Profile Host Channel Adapter M2 Cards in slots: EM0.0, EM0.1, EM1.0, EM2.0, EM3.0, EM3.1 (EM1.1 and EM2.1 left empty)
System SW 1.2: SP version 3.0.16.20.c_r82507, BIOS 15020500
Sun Server X2-8 systems running versions of Oracle Linux earlier than 6.4, or with only four sockets, only support a maximum of four Sun InfiniBand Dual Port 4x QDR PCIe Low Profile Host Channel Adapter M2 Cards.