ProLiant DL580 Gen9 2.50 GHz Eighteen Core

ProLiant DL580 Gen9 2.50 GHz Eighteen Core
Network Server
IBM

08 May 2015
143132

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

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

Windows Server 2008
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized	SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2008
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized	SP: Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86
	Arch: 32pae	Mode: Fully Virtualized	SP: 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:	Gen9
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: U17 (03/13/2015)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-8890 v3 2.50 GHz
RAM:	512 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 PCI Express X8 5 PCI Express X16 Serial 9 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eH
Host Bus Adapter:	HP P830i SmartArray Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	5 HP EG0600FBDBU 600GB SAS 2.5 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.3.0-113.3

Config Notes

Install: System installed using the internal USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
VM Driver Pack: All FV 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).
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.
Hard disk configuration: RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 5.
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.

Referenced Bulletins
141511

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200eH
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga
	Driver Date: 29-May-2013	Driver Size: 190720
	Checksum: cbbe7ba695cb37835f3c7d4e79ec43c5
	Driver Version: 1.4.11

HP FlexibleLOM 1Gb 4-port 331FLR Ethernet Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 04-Jun-2014	Driver Size: 243103
	Checksum: 8eebaa04a25c1502787fe17d6bb05300
	Driver Version: 3.129

HP Ethernet 1Gb 2-port 361T Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 04-Jun-2014	Driver Size: 287927
	Checksum: 01501141df52b4f566d1eaa628990280
	Driver Version: 4.1.2-k

HP P830i SmartArray Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: hpsa.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Apr-2014	Driver Size: 955417
	Checksum: 7856a1260c0e9fa8a4718e33e5830631
	Driver Version: 3.4.6-125

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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