ProLiant DL580 Gen8 2.80 GHz Fifteen Core

ProLiant DL580 Gen8 2.80 GHz Fifteen Core
Network Server
IBM

27 Oct 2014
141949

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

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

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:	UEFI-Legacy: P79 (08/01/2014)
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-4890 v2 2.80 GHz
RAM:	6 TB
Ports and Bus Types:	9 USB Ports Serial 4 PCI Express X8 5 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eH
Host Bus Adapter:	HP P830i SmartArray Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	3 HP 300GB 10K SAS Model EG0300FCSPH , Serial SCSI (SAS) HP MM0500FBFVQ , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.3.0-97.1

Config Notes

Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were changed based on the content in the following knowledge-base article: 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
Power management: The System/Processor dynamic CPU frequency scaling functionality in SLES is not supported on POWER8 (PowerVM) as this functionality is provided by the POWER8 hardware itself.
Maintenance updates: the SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Power 12 SP1 system requires the following two maintenance updates, 1) kernel-default-3.12.57-60.35.1.ppc64le.rpm. The system can be updated after the initial install. This update can be downloaded from: https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=qd0PaT_bWqU~ and 2) kexec-tools 1056 update available at: https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=8uWJi0YOv-o~.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200eH
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 97711
	Checksum: 2e18ee51e3395e6f9f9817ef7a9ab886

HP 1Gb Ethernet 4-port 331FLR Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 09-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 255327
	Checksum: 93319c81002c211d917ab344aaeb9fc1
	Driver Version: 3.136

HP P830i SmartArray Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: hpsa.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 149783
	Checksum: c242d4e4c13a9fcd6af2af0b857045b9
	Driver Version: 3.4.4-126

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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