PowerEdge M630

PowerEdge M630
Network Server
IBM

01 Apr 2016
144309

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

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

Product Description
The PowerEdge M630 is supported on Dell PowerEdge VRTX. The Dell Shared PERC 8 card is located between the storage array and the power distribution board on the VRTX planar. The Dell Shared PERC 8 slot routes SAS to the nearby planar miniSAS connectors, which are used to internally cable SAS from the PERC to the SAS expander cards in the storage array. Please visit www.dell.com/vrtx for detail information.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	A01
BIOS/uEFI:	BIOS: 2.0.1 (02/16/2016)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2698 v4 2.20 GHz
RAM:	1536 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 USB Ports 9 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR
Host Bus Adapter:	Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H730P Mini , Serial SCSI (SAS) 2 Dell Shared PERC 8 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® ST9500620SS 500GB SAS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS) Toshiba MK2001TRKB , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	HLDS GU60N , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.5.0-20.4

Config Notes

Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
Hard disk configuration: JBOD
System was scaled up to 4-socket by joining two x880 X6 with 4S scalability connector.
SUSE Driver Kit: The ibm_x6-sle11sp3-x86_64 driver kit is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver kit was installed during the SLES install process as an initial bootable iso image. This driver must be downloaded and installed before the SLES install. To obtain the driver go to: http://drivers.suse.com/ibm/IBM-X6/sle11-sp3/install-readme.html

Referenced Bulletins
141544

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 18-May-2015	Driver Size: 190720
	Checksum: eeec94d7ef85cad092007144321a8b30
	Driver Version: 1.4.11

Broadcom® NetXtreme BCM5720 (Quad Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 249143
	Checksum: ceed4fcec3c2fa76027c456bc8e570d4
	Driver Version: 3.137

Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H730P Mini
2 Dell Shared PERC 8

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.

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For more information regarding the specific test configuration, please contact:

IBM
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
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PowerEdge M630 - Yes Bulletin 144309 | SUSE