ProLiant XL730f Gen9 (Apollo 8000) 2.3 GHz Eighteen Core

ProLiant XL730f Gen9 (Apollo 8000) 2.3 GHz Eighteen Core
Network Server
IBM

01 Nov 2015
143681

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:	Gen9
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 1.32 (03/05/2015)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2699 v3 @ 2.30 GHz
RAM:	256 GB
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eH
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel C612 Chipset (DH82029 PCH) , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	Intel SSD DC S3500 Series 400GB (SSDSC1NB400G401) , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.3.0-113.3

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: 29-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 97711
	Checksum: 0aa1fb610e038786b32b41ad30a9aa41

HP Ethernet 1Gb 361i
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 319895
	Checksum: 5dc831ebe3c0bfe03571c08dedd554dc
	Driver Version: 5.0.5-k

Intel C612 Chipset (DH82029 PCH)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 62335
	Checksum: 8992c5358b677d4a7df780cf01807613
	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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