PowerEdge R940

PowerEdge R940
Network Server
IBM

30 Jul 2018
146962

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 for x86 Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLED 11

Other Products:

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Point of Service (SLEPOS)

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	A00
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 1.4.8 (05/21/2018)
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8180M Processor 2.50 GHz
RAM:	6 TB
Ports and Bus Types:	3 USB Ports 7 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eW3
Host Bus Adapter:	Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H730P , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® ST1200MM0088 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.1.0-80.2

Config Notes

Desktop Effects: Graphics driver/adapter does not support desktop effects.
Install: PXE Boot, OS Installed via Network.
Power Management: System/Processor supports throttling.
Power Management: Hibernation / Suspend to Disk / ACPI S4 is supported on this system.
Power Management: System/Processor does not support dynamic CPU frequency scaling.
Sound: Recording on an external microphone is not supported on this system.
Power Management: System does not support standby.
Maintenance update: SLED 11 SP2 maintenance kernel (3.0.34-0.7.9) is required to properly detect floppy drive medium. Kernel patch installed: kernel-default-base-3.0.34-0.7.9.i586.rpm and kernel-default-3.0.34-0.7.9.i586.rpm. The maintenance kernel rpms can be downloaded from http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=S5dXSxMK3jQ
Floppy disks used on this system must be manually mounted. To do this, perform the following steps first: a) run "mknod /lib/udev/devices/fd0 b 2 0" b) add "/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,users,rw 0 0" to /etc/fstab, c) run command "mkdir /media/floppy", d) reboot. Thereafter, whenever a floppy is inserted, run command "mount /dev/fd0" to mount the floppy drive.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200eW3
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 105288
	Checksum: 1eae76e8c5bf871e23a8cf646aaf1ed6

Intel Gigabit 4P I350 bNDC (Quad Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 489024
	Checksum: d5232654a1debc91e634dcdcdf5d1fc8
	Driver Version: 5.4.0-k

Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H730P
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 288872
	Checksum: 05a11c19ea5020998382f29c3ae31971
	Driver Version: 07.704.04.00-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:

IBM
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
www.ibm.com

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PowerEdge R940 - Yes Bulletin 146962 | SUSE