DL785-G6

DL785-G6
Network Server
Supermicro Computer

23 Oct 2009
130548

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 5 for SUSE® SLES 12

Product Description
The HP ProLiant DL785-G6 is an 8 socket x86 server, supporting up to eight(8) Six-Core AMD Opteron(tm) processors, 512GB of memory, 11 PCI-e I/O slots or an optional I/O backplane with 7 PCI-e & 2 HTx I/O slots. i386 kernel is restricted to cpu/memory limits posted at: http://www.novell.com/products/server10/techspecs.html under "Kernel Limits".

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	A1
BIOS/uEFI:	A15 08142009
CPU:	4 AMD Six-Core AMD Opteron™ 8439SE 2.80 GHz
RAM:	16 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	3 PCI Express X16 3 PCI Express X8 5 PCI Express X4
Video Adapter:	ATI ES1000
Host Bus Adapter:	HP Smart Array P400 (SA P400) Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS) Broadcom® BCM5785 SATA , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	8 HP DH072ABAA6 72GB SAS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	Teac DV-28E-V , IDE
USB Keyboard:	HP USB Keyboard KU-9963
USB Mouse:	HP USB Mouse (generic)
Test Kit:	Partner certified 1.1

Config Notes

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. The system also has one internal USB port. The two integrated BCM5718 dual-port network adapters are sold as a single Lenovo Flex System EN2024 4-port 1Gb Ethernet Adapter.
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 1.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=167M,high crashkernel=122M,low" using YaST.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from https://download.suse.com/ (VMDP-WIN-2.3.exe).
SR-IOV/PCI Pass-through: Current system configuration does not support network SR-IOV or network PCI Pass-through.

Adapters and Drivers


ATI ES1000
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: radeon_drv.so
	Driver Date: 17-Mar-2008	Driver Size: 283804
	Checksum: 54e340ac765f3dcceb97d352ece9f560

2 Broadcom® Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (5706c)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 194032
	Checksum: 43acc5b4410defee9acb7422083f3c65

HP Smart Array P400 (SA P400) Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: cciss.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 92464
	Checksum: 42c9e6fa0309a9c5e603f02ab3e61a3c

Broadcom® BCM5785 SATA
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: serverworks.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 26976
	Checksum: 388a1d6cfd5d36565b132ea38a7ca951

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:

Supermicro Computer
980 Rock Ave.
San Jose , CA 95131
Website: https://www.supermicro.com/

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DL785-G6 - Yes Bulletin 130548 | SUSE