Z620 Workstation / Intel® Xeon® E5-2643 v2 3.50 GHz

Z620 Workstation / Intel® Xeon® E5-2643 v2 3.50 GHz
Workstation
IBM

06 Mar 2014
141260

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Mini Tower
Mother Board Revision:	1.00
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI-Legacy: J61 v03.65 (12/19/2013)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2643 v2 3.50 GHz
RAM:	8 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	32-Bit PCI 2 1394 Firewire 9 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X8 2 PCI Express X16 PCI Express X4
Video Adapter:	ATI FirePro™ W7000
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel BD82C602 PCH , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	Samsung® HD256GM , Serial ATA (SATA)
CD/DVD:	Hitachi GST DVD-RAM GH60L , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.2.0-5.10

Config Notes

Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
VM Driver Pack: All 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).
SUSE Driver Kit: The ibm_x6-sle11sp3-x86_64 driver kit is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver kit was installed during the SLES install process as an initial bootable iso image. This driver must be downloaded and installed before the SLES install. To obtain the driver go to: http://drivers.suse.com/ibm/IBM-X6/sle11-sp3/install-readme.html.
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.

Referenced Bulletins
141518

Adapters and Drivers


ATI FirePro™ W7000
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: fglrx.ko
	Driver Date: 03-Feb-2014	Driver Size: 10684592
	Checksum: 6302c0b8ca00a1c20d37c323891a208c

Intel 82579LM Gigabit Ethernet PHY (single port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: e1000e.ko
	Driver Date: 02-Jul-2013	Driver Size: 383655
	Checksum: 8560cd7fda0d446add6f4fe91a863341
	Driver Version: 2.1.4-k

Intel 82574L Gigabit Ethernet
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: e1000e.ko
	Driver Date: 02-Jul-2013	Driver Size: 383655
	Checksum: 8560cd7fda0d446add6f4fe91a863341
	Driver Version: 2.1.4-k

Intel BD82C602 PCH
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 02-Jul-2013	Driver Size: 58287
	Checksum: 42bafd278da84bf8f5c1caa57604462d
	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:
www.ibm.com

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Z620 Workstation / Intel® Xeon® E5-2643 v2 3.50 GHz - Yes Bulletin 141260 | SUSE