BladeCenter HS23E (8038-B3x)

BladeCenter HS23E (8038-B3x)
Network Server
Dell Incorporated

22 May 2012
137677

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
The HS23E offers value for performance, with support for the new Intel® Xeon® E5-processors that processes up to 16 simultaneous threads and 1600 MHz memory. It is ideal for a variety of workloads such as business applications, virtualization, IT and web infrastructure, point of sale and smart computing.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	3
BIOS/uEFI:	AHE112CUS-1.00
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2407 2.20 GHz
RAM:	24 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM ServeRAID C105 , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	IBM 500GB Hot-Swap SATA HDD , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.1.0-33.2

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 15 SP4 guest. One of the Intel X540 ML2 Dual Port 10GbaseT adapters was used in this testing.

Referenced Bulletins
151660

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: fbdev_drv.so
	Driver Date: 21-Apr-2008	Driver Size: 23984
	Checksum: 51cc22089119a901912f6dec9ae0c1f4

Broadcom® Integrated BCM5718 Dual-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 183096
	Checksum: 65c37c8b6c899e96647bd9c0ba87a12c

IBM ServeRAID C105
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megasr.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Mar-2012	Driver Size: 1523272
	Checksum: 1f364c70d171c583fda1895d0ee0cee6

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:

Dell Incorporated
1 DELL WAY
ROUND ROCK , TX 78682

607880

BladeCenter HS23E (8038-B3x) - Yes Bulletin 137677 | SUSE