SGI® Rackable™ C2108-TY3

SGI® Rackable™ C2108-TY3
Network Server
Hewlett-Packard Company

10 Nov 2009
130660

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 10

Product Description
SGI® Rackable™ platform offers performance and energy efficiency at a breakthrough price point. The combination of advanced Intel® Xeon® processor architecture, backed by SGI's industry-leading service and support, provides customers with exceptional value in the SGI® Rackable™ C2108-TY3 platform.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	X02
BIOS/uEFI:	AMI 0.93 06/18/2009
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor W5580 3.20 GHz
RAM:	48 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	PCI Express X8 2 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2000
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel Integrated 82801JIB ICH10 , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	Western Digital WD2502ABYS 250GB 3.5 SATA , Serial ATA (SATA)
Floppy Type:	NONE
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.4.0-0.21

Config Notes

256 CPUs require ESXi 6.7 U2 or higher update level.
System certification testing was performed with a SLES 12 SP4 64-bit virtual machine installed on UEFI firmware with Secure Boot enabled and configured with up to 256 CPUs and 6128 GB of memory.
VMware recommends using the Open VM Tools redistributed by operating system vendors. For additional information, see knowledge base article 2073803 at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073803
VMware recommends using the paravirtual drivers contributed upstream and redistributed by operating system vendors. For additional information, see knowledge base article 2073804 at https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073804.
The VMware Memory Ballooning driver included in SLES 12 SP4 is auto loaded to improve the virtual machine memory performance.
VMware guest OS installation information can be found at http://partnerweb.vmware.com/GOSIG/SLE_12.html

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST2000
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: swrast_dri.so
	Driver Date: 23-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 2263056


	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast_drv.so
	Driver Date: 25-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 56064


2 Intel 82576 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 116120
	Checksum: 384f7df9f6046f20813724fd8b777e72

Intel Integrated 82801JIB ICH10
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 57264
	Checksum: e8a95d74b2f76b30706e49b9f192fa60

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:

Hewlett-Packard Company
Industry Standard Server Division
20555 SH249
Houston , TX 77070
Website: http://www.hp.com

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SGI® Rackable C2108-TY3 - Yes Bulletin 130660 | SUSE