Express5800/R120d-2M (E5-2620)

Express5800/R120d-2M (E5-2620)
Network Server
Hitachi, Ltd.

27 Aug 2013
140039

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 12

Product Description
The NEC Express5800/R120d-2M, a scalable compact dual-socket 2U rack server built on the Intel® Xeon® E5-2620 processors, offers superior performance, reliability, and energy savings. Its green technology enables the operation in temperatures of 40°C (104°F) to lower air conditioning costs for server rooms. The R120d-2M supports large memory capacity which is perfect for high data volume processing and future growth of your business. For more information see http://www.nec.com/.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	04S
BIOS/uEFI:	BIOS 4.6.1010 (04/27/2012)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2620 2.00 GHz
RAM:	24 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 Serial 6 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X8 2 PCI Express X4
Video Adapter:	Matrox® Millennium G200 SE
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 9267-8i RAID Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel BD82C602J PCH , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	Hitachi GST HUC106045CSS600 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	Teac DV-28S-Y , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.2.0-5.10

Config Notes

SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to one of the SLES 12 guests. One of the Intel® I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE adapters was used in this testing.
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 5. Kdump requires modification of crashkernel values - this system was tested at 256M for both high and low crashkernel values.
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).
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters added to the Xen section of the /etc/default/grub file: dom0_mem=10G dom0_max_vcpus=10.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® Millennium G200 SE
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 13-May-2013	Driver Size: 204964
	Checksum: 12efb07097320f259e3570652cf129da
	Driver Version: 1.4.11

Broadcom® Integrated BCM5718 Dual-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 194087
	Checksum: ea812f4b7487c74e53932b99057e98a1
	Driver Version: 3.129

LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 9267-8i RAID Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 94071
	Checksum: ebe0dac982da7dda6e42ffdc95e7da0c
	Driver Version: 06.506.00.00-rc1

Intel BD82C602J PCH
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_piix.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 39611
	Checksum: 58b693cc0565268a4791d8307ac1ac18
	Driver Version: 2.13

	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_generic.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 10087
	Checksum: b62b0cf2a55cf0bee144beb44c376953
	Driver Version: 0.2.15

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:

Hitachi, Ltd.
1 Horiyamashita, Hadano-shi
Kanagawa-ken 259-1392
JAPAN
Voice: +81-463-88-8010
Fax: +81-463-87-7495

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