PowerEdge R710 / 2 Intel® Xeon® E5530 2.40 GHz

PowerEdge R710 / 2 Intel® Xeon® E5530 2.40 GHz
Network Server
IBM

27 Jan 2010
131200

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

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

Other Products:

Novell® Open Enterprise Server 2 Support Pack 2

Product Description
The Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 is designed to be the cornerstone of today’s competitive enterprise. Engineered in response to input from IT professionals, it is the next-generation 2U rack server created to efficiently address a wide range of key business applications. The successor to the PowerEdge 2950 III, the R710 runs the Intel® Xeon® E5530 Processor and helps you lower the total cost of ownership with enhanced virtualization capabilities, improved energy efficiency, and innovative system management tools.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	A00
BIOS/uEFI:	1.3.6
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5530 2.40 GHz
RAM:	6 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	Serial 2 PCI Express X4 2 PCI Express X8 4 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eW
Host Bus Adapter:	Dell Integrated PERC 6/i RAID Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel Integrated 82801IB ICH9 , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Seagate® ST973402SS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	Philips and Lite-On Digital Storage Corporation DVD+-RW DS-8A3S , Serial ATA (SATA)
USB Floppy:	Dell FD-05PUB
USB Keyboard:	Belkin PS2 to USB KVM
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.5.0-0.30

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.3.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 guests. The the Intel I350-T2 adapters was used during this testing.
Kdump (SLE12SP2): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=159M,high crashkernel=112M,low using YaST.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eW
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 24-Aug-2009	Driver Size: 173128
	Checksum: 96a33dda383f3a9a0105217ce9af245a

4 Broadcom® Integrated 5709c NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 210128
	Checksum: 9f462115ad67e89b17221676e67ef9fc

Dell Integrated PERC 6/i RAID Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 69320
	Checksum: 9da425a767b07bf7252b8901709bc351

Intel Integrated 82801IB ICH9
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_piix.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 45928
	Checksum: a52e876adcd5e3c2c13ade06e300a3cf

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
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
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PowerEdge R710 / 2 Intel® Xeon® E5530 2.40 GHz - Yes Bulletin 131200 | SUSE