S3420GPLX

S3420GPLX
Network Server
IBM

13 Oct 2009
130446

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
Intel® S3420GP server uses the Intel® Xeon® X3470 CPU and PCH chipset, memory controller is combined in CPU, PCH is the IO Hub. This system uses a normal ATX form factor motherboard.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	E51974-401
BIOS/uEFI:	S3420GP.86B.01.00.0027
CPU:	Intel Xeon® Processor X3470 2.93 GHz
RAM:	12 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	32-Bit PCI 9 USB Ports 2 Serial PCI Express X1 2 PCI Express X4 2 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	ServerEngines™ Integrated Pilot II Controller
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel BD3420 PCH , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® Barracuda 7200.10 ST380815AS , Serial ATA (SATA)
CD/DVD:	Teac DV-28S , Serial ATA (SATA)
USB Keyboard:	KEYTRONIC KT800U3
USB Mouse:	Logitech M-BP82
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.4.0-0.21

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0.
Serial/USB/VGA port(s): provided through KVM connector console breakout cable which supplies one RS232 serial port, one VGA port and two USB ports.
Kdump (SLE12SP2): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=144M,high crashkernel=112M,low using YaST.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows Server 2016 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.4.exe), the virtio network drivers were used during testing.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where one of the host network adapters was given to one of the SLES 12 SP2 guests. The integrated Lenovo CN4052 2-port 10Gb Virtual Fabric adapter was used for this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


ServerEngines™ Integrated Pilot II Controller
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 25-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 201412
	Checksum: 82bb390e7cef098e3160a754caeb9408

Intel 82574L Gigabit Ethernet
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: e1000e.ko
	Driver Date: 30-Jun-2009	Driver Size: 166304
	Checksum: d16f3f9bd02e8e2c49510e5385428c05

Intel 82578 GbE PHY
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: e1000e.ko
	Driver Date: 30-Jun-2009	Driver Size: 166304
	Checksum: d16f3f9bd02e8e2c49510e5385428c05

Intel BD3420 PCH
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 43740
	Checksum: 2e07f4998d56b5c4d38dbc0d1c0f980e

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
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S3420GPLX - Yes Bulletin 130446 | SUSE