HP Integrity rx3600 PCI-express

HP Integrity rx3600 PCI-express
Network Server
Hewlett-Packard Company

07 Jan 2010
131044

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for Intel® Itanium® Processor Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 10

Product Description
The HP Integrity rx3600 Server is a powerful entry-class workhorse for demanding application and database workloads. The Integrity rx3600 Server's balanced architecture, designed around the HP zx2 Chipset, delivers high levels of capacity and availability. The Integrity rx3600 Server can scale to 2 processors/4 cores and will support up to 96 GB of memory and eight internal hard disk drives. http://h20338.www2.hp.com/integrity/w1/en/entry-class/rx3600-specifications.html

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	Rev. A2
BIOS/uEFI:	04.11
CPU:	2 Intel Dual-Core Itanium® 2 Processor 9040 1.60 GHz
RAM:	96 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 64-bit/66MHz PCI-X 2 64-bit/133MHz PCI-X 4 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	ATI ATI Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE]
Host Bus Adapter:	HP Smart Array P800 Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	8 HP DG146ABAB4 146GB SAS 10K , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	Partner certified 1.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
Hard disk configuration: JBOD
System was scaled up to 4-socket by joining two x880 X6 with 4S scalability connector.
SUSE Driver Kit: The ibm_x6-sle11sp3-x86_64 driver kit is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver kit was installed during the SLES install process as an initial bootable iso image. This driver must be downloaded and installed before the SLES install. To obtain the driver go to: http://drivers.suse.com/ibm/IBM-X6/sle11-sp3/install-readme.html
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).

Referenced Bulletins
141545

Adapters and Drivers


2 HP Core Dual Port 1000Base-T [AB352A]
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: e1000.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 1148688
	Checksum: 7afa0ca48e77a1f2a77523626b914df4

HP Smart Array P800 Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: cciss.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 718936
	Checksum: 5e7d652edc1c81842e23ce32abf8d137

ATI ATI Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE]
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: radeon_drv.so
	Driver Date: 21-Apr-2008	Driver Size: 650032
	Checksum: 3448d3aac0b48431c3fbf0692228bf3c

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
Workstation Global Business Unit
Fort Collins , CO 80528
Website: http://www.hp.com

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