SGI® Rackable™ C2108-RP2

SGI® Rackable™ C2108-RP2
Network Server
IBM

12 Sep 2013
140196

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Power 15 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 15

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

2 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 11	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
Windows Server 2008
	SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2008	Arch: 32	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
SGI® Rackable™ C2108-RP2, provides incredible configuration flexibility. Featuring a wide variety of processor and drive configurations, the C2108-RP2 is a flexible, cost-effective solution for a wide variety of applications that have tightly coupled compute and storage requirements.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	G11481-352
BIOS/uEFI:	Intel SE5C600.86B.02.01.0002.082220131453
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2697 v2 2.70 GHz
RAM:	192 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	5 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X8 4 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200e
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 9261-8i , Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel BD82C602 PCH , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	3 Western Digital WD9001BKHG , Serial SCSI (SAS) Seagate® ST3146854SS , Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel SSDSA2BW08 , Serial ATA (SATA) Seagate® ST31000524NS , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.2.0-5.10

Config Notes

Kdump: The crash kernel reserved memory parameters were changed based on the content in the following knowledge-base article for ppc64le: https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=3374462
Headless configuration - no graphics adapter. System configured using IBM remote Hardware Management Console (HMC) for graphics, keyboard and mouse.
Install: The SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server install was performed using a network install method.
CPU: This system is 4 CPU socket configuration with 24 core dual chip module per socket, totalling 96 cores. The Power10 3.9 GHz (Max) DCM CPUs tested each have 24 cores and with SMT8 totalling 768 vCPU threads.
Power management: The System/Processor dynamic CPU frequency scaling functionality in SLES is not supported on Power10 (PowerVM) as this functionality is provided by the Power10 hardware itself.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200e
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 30-Mar-2013	Driver Size: 190720
	Checksum: cbbe7ba695cb37835f3c7d4e79ec43c5
	Driver Version: 1.4.11

2 Intel Ethernet Controller I350-AM2 (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 287167
	Checksum: 81bfd34fb256a6fa3cab6fc2f6e9ed3e
	Driver Version: 4.1.2-k

LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 9261-8i
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 128775
	Checksum: 36c2f0e7dab4f4c97ea2e019d1fb44da
	Driver Version: 06.506.00.00-rc1

Intel BD82C602 PCH
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: isci.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 238071
	Checksum: 679b40a2734bc0680c620c9f6bd1be20
	Driver Version: 1.1.0

	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 58287
	Checksum: 473c4648eb91631c32be9d18fb2e85ad
	Driver Version: 3.0

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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