PowerEdge R815 / 4 AMD Sixteen-Core Opteron™ 6380 2.50 GHz

PowerEdge R815 / 4 AMD Sixteen-Core Opteron™ 6380 2.50 GHz
Network Server
IBM

02 Dec 2014
142487

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
Ideal for virtualization, medium databases, high-performance computing (HPC) and other highly threaded applications, the Dell PowerEdge R815 is a four-socket, 2U rack server that offers an excellent balance of processor density, redundancy and value in a space-saving form factor. Four-socket performance in a space-saving 2U form factor, Advanced systems-management capability with Lifecycle Controller

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	A01
BIOS/uEFI:	BIOS Boot: 3.2.2 (09/15/2014)
CPU:	4 AMD Sixteen-Core Opteron™ 6380 2.50 GHz
RAM:	1048544 MB
Ports and Bus Types:	7 USB Ports Serial 5 PCI Express X8 2 PCI Express X4
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eW
Host Bus Adapter:	Dell PERC H700 Integrated , Serial SCSI (SAS) ATI SB700 , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® ST91000640NS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	TSST DVD+/-RW TS-L633B , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.3.0-113.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed using the internal DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2008 drivers are available from https://download.suse.com/ (VMDP-WIN-2.2.exe).
Serial port: The serial port is for system development purposes and not general user access. It was not tested during certification and therefore is not supported.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter was changed to 512 (crashkernel=1024M-:512M) for kdump to function correctly.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eW
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 97711
	Checksum: 0aa1fb610e038786b32b41ad30a9aa41

Broadcom® Integrated 5709c NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Quad Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2.ko
	Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 133583
	Checksum: 9ae8d4e4e3c295fe528b2ff0239a6510
	Driver Version: 2.2.5

Dell PERC H700 Integrated
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 168407
	Checksum: 929c950a0f075f2e946ed38367bf1daf
	Driver Version: 06.803.01.00-rc1

ATI SB700
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 62335
	Checksum: 6fa167c9a90f7cef6c3ac0e9c1a56fdd
	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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PowerEdge R815 / 4 AMD Sixteen-Core Opteron™ 6380 2.50 GHz - Yes Bulletin 142487 | SUSE