C880 M4

C880 M4
Network Server
Lenovo

17 Feb 2016
144094

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 5 for SUSE® SLES 12

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 11	Arch: 32pae	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 11	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
Windows Server 2008
	SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2008	Arch: 32	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
Cisco C880 M4

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	D3736
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 01.17 (04/17/2015)
CPU:	8 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-8890 v3 2.50 GHz
RAM:	768 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	13 PCI Express X8 2 PCI Express X16 16 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200e
Host Bus Adapter:	4 Fujitsu PRAID EP420i , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	8 Hitachi GST ULTRASTAR C15K600, 300GB, SAS (HUC156030CSS204) , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.3.0-113.3

Config Notes

Install: System installed using PXE network install; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Disk configuration: SSD RAID 10, HDD RAID 5. Kdump (SLES15): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=319M,high crashkernel=172M,low using YaST. Maintenance update: the latest SLES 15 kernel update is required and was installed during certification testing.
Persistent Memory: The Persistent Memory in the system was configured in mixed mode, 90-percent (~6.8TB) in Memory Mode and 10-percent (~1.0TB) in AppDirect Mode.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 15 guest. One of the Intel Ethernet Connection X722 (Quad-Port) for 1GbE adapters was used in this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200e
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga
	Driver Date: 29-May-2013	Driver Size: 190720
	Checksum: cbbe7ba695cb37835f3c7d4e79ec43c5
	Driver Version: 1.4.11

Intel X540-AT2 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbe.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 349319
	Checksum: 6b985656ab852761e6d44809093f0150
	Driver Version: 3.11.33-k

3 Intel Ethernet Controller I350-AM2 (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 287167
	Checksum: 81bfd34fb256a6fa3cab6fc2f6e9ed3e
	Driver Version: 4.1.2-k

4 Fujitsu PRAID EP420i
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 128775
	Checksum: 36c2f0e7dab4f4c97ea2e019d1fb44da
	Driver Version: 06.506.00.00-rc1

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:

Lenovo
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
support.lenovo.com

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C880 M4 - Yes Bulletin 144094 | SUSE