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
143737

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

2 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized	SP: Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11
Windows Server 2008
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized	SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2008

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: U19 (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

System certification testing was performed with a SLES 15 SP6 64-bit virtual machine installed on UEFI firmware with Secure Boot enabled and configured with up to 768 CPUs and 24560 GB of memory.
VMware recommends using the Open VM Tools redistributed by operating system vendors. For additional information, see knowledge base article 2073803 at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073803.
VMware recommends using the paravirtual drivers contributed upstream and redistributed by operating system vendors . For additional information, see knowledge base article 2073804 at https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073804.
The VMware Memory Ballooning driver included in SLES 15 SP6 is auto loaded to improve the virtual machine memory performance.
VMware guest OS installation information can be found at: http://partnerweb.vmware.com/GOSIG/SLE_15.html.

Referenced Bulletins
153452

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 Ethernet 1Gb 2-port 361i
	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 Smart Array P840ar/2GB 12GB Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: hpsa.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2014	Driver Size: 149582
	Checksum: 90bdc2d7eb92e566a2accec1091cf149
	Driver Version: 3.4.6-165

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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