ProLiant DL385p Gen8 2.70GHz Sixteen Core

ProLiant DL385p Gen8 2.70GHz Sixteen Core
Network Server
IBM

10 Aug 2012
138106

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

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

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SLES 10	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SLES 10	Arch: 32pae	Mode: Paravirtualized
Windows Server 2008
	SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2008	Arch: 32	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
For more information, please visit http://www.hp.com/go/proliantlinux

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	Gen8
BIOS/uEFI:	A28 - 05/15/2012
CPU:	2 AMD Sixteen-Core Opteron™ 6284 SE 2.70 GHz
RAM:	32 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express X8 PCI Express X4 Serial 8 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eH
Host Bus Adapter:	AMD SP5100 , Serial ATA (SATA) HP Smart Array P420i Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	HP MM1000FBFVR 1TB SAS 2.5'' , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	HP DV_W28S_W , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.1.0-33.2

Config Notes

The mpt2sas driver can be downloaded and installed when SLES is installed. To obtain the driver go to: http://www.lsi.com/downloads/Public/Host%20Bus%20Adapters/Host%20Bus%20Adapters%20Common%20Files/SAS_SATA_6G_P10/LinuxMPT_SAS2_RHEL5-6_SLES10-11_P10.zip Unzip this zip file,find the mpt2sas-10.00.00.00-1-sles11sp1.x86_64.iso.gz in the path: LinuxMPT_SAS2_RHEL5-6_SLES10-11_P10\mpt2sas_rhel5_rel\mpt2sas-release\disks-1 ,decompress the gz and use the inside of the file "mpt2sas-10.00.00.00-1-sles11sp1.x86_64.iso" as a update disk in the following steps: 1 Boot from the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server installation media. 2 Press F6 to load the driver update after the boot menu appears, and select Yes ,then you are prompted to insert the update disk at the appropriate point in the installation process. This driver is not PLDP compliant.
Install: OS Installed via USB CD/DVD Drive.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200eH
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 16-Feb-2011	Driver Size: 173128
	Checksum: 8ebfc17a3c242bbbf0e8881cb3c825c9

HP 1Gb Ethernet 4-port 331FLR Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 174896
	Checksum: fecfa4aab334b3fe685eb108dfd9037c

AMD SP5100
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 55736
	Checksum: 44965535f993ebd7a02cc9cee3eaf1f5

HP Smart Array P420i Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: cciss.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 123832
	Checksum: 40858d2206d2cea7095b82a4bba79082

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:
www.ibm.com

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