Integrity Superdome X - BL920s Gen9 System

Integrity Superdome X - BL920s Gen9 System
Network Server
IBM

30 Sep 2015
143620

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86 with XEN Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 10

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SLES 11	Arch: 32pae	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
Windows Server 2008
	SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2008	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
For more information, please visit http://www.hp.com/go/proliantlinux

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Super Server
Mother Board Revision:	AT068A
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 7.4 (07/18/2015)
CPU:	16 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-8890 v3 2.50 GHz
RAM:	12288 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	8 PCI Express X8 16 PCI Express X16 2 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eH
Host Bus Adapter:	8 HP QMH2672 16Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter , FibreChannel
Hard Disk Drive:	HP 450GB SAS HD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Storage Area Network (SAN) Device:	HP StorageWorks P2000 G3 FC Modular Smart Array
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.4.0-30.3

Config Notes

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.
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) and the virtio network drivers were used during testing.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200eH
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 97711
	Checksum: 0f544cdea86814ccc264ecdcc60663af

8 HP FlexFabric 20Gb 2-port 630FLB Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2x.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 1102295
	Checksum: 9918211731babbb9a86cffaf6aa10a7f
	Driver Version: 1.78.19-0

8 HP QMH2672 16Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: qla2xxx.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 1003231
	Checksum: a664f9048d2ca10827ae89208a2302c2
	Driver Version: 8.07.00.08.12.0-

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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