ProLiant XL420 Gen9 (Apollo 4200) 2.30 GHz Eighteen Core

ProLiant XL420 Gen9 (Apollo 4200) 2.30 GHz Eighteen Core
Network Server
IBM

01 Nov 2015
143711

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 11	Arch: 64	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:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	Gen9
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 1.40 (05/06/2015)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2699 v3 2.30 GHz
RAM:	72 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 PCI Express X8 3 PCI Express X16 4 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eH
Host Bus Adapter:	HP Smart Array P840ar/2GB 12GB Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	HP MB1000FAMYU 1TB SAS 3.5 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.3.0-113.3

Config Notes

PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where one of the host network adapters was given to one of the SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guests. One adapter in the embedded I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE was used during this testing.
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).
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.

Referenced Bulletins
141273

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 2-port 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

HP Smart Array P840ar/2GB 12GB Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: hpsa.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Oct-2014	Driver Size: 149783
	Checksum: 359dc3fe04b3cd84e8e2a127eba3dfc9
	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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