SGI® Rackable™ C2005-TY1

SGI® Rackable™ C2005-TY1
Network Server
SGI

29 Jan 2010
131214

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™ platforms offer superior 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™ C2005-TY1 platform.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	X03
BIOS/uEFI:	1.00
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor L5520 2.26 GHz
RAM:	48 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express X8 2 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2050
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel Integrated 82801JIR (ICH10R) , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	Western Digital WD RE3 WD1002FBYS , Serial ATA (SATA)
Floppy Type:	NONE
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.5.0-0.30

Config Notes

Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8588 and kernel update 8827 (x86-64) are required and were installed during certification testing.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter in the elilo.conf file was changed from 128 to 256 (crashkernel=512M-:256M) for kdump to function correctly.
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 R2 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=10G dom0_max_vcpus=10.
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 11 SP3 x86-64 guests. One adapter in the embedded I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE was used during this testing.

Referenced Bulletins
141274

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST2050
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast_drv.so
	Driver Date: 21-Apr-2008	Driver Size: 49080
	Checksum: cc27bbc39f5b8aef80382c7e0398b0cb

2 Intel 82576 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 146768
	Checksum: 4e0faf6cbc26fd4c01b8344e7c6ec1b1

Intel Integrated 82801JIR (ICH10R)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 63888
	Checksum: b71ff75c0d45cba740b5c3bd6d79d1cd

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:

SGI
46600 Landing Parkway
Fremont , CA 94538
Voice: 650-960-1980
Website: http://www.sgi.com

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