PowerEdge R940xa

PowerEdge R940xa
Network Server
Hewlett-Packard Company

15 Aug 2018
146993

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for Intel® Itanium® Processor Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 10

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

2 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
Windows Server 2012 R2
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	A00
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 1.1.1 (03/31/2018)
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8180M Processor 2.50 GHz
RAM:	Host Platform: 6 TB, 64-bit VM Guests: 1487 GB, Single Max VM 64-bit Guest Tested Memory: 1536 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	5 USB Ports 10 PCI Express X16 2 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eW3
Host Bus Adapter:	Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H730P , Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel C621 Chipset , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Seagate® Seagate Enterprise Capacity, 2.5 HDD, SAS, (ST1000NX0473) , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	LG GU90N , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.1.0-83.2

Config Notes

Install: System installed using the internal DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where a network adapter was given to the SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. An added network adapter, Intel® PRO/1000 PM (82571EB) Dual-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller, was used in this testing.
SLES Virtual Machine Guests Setting: Cache mode was set to "none" for NIC tests to succeed. This setting is found under Virtual machine details > Disk > Advance Options > Performance Options.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe), and the virtio network drivers were used during testing.
Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 5.

Referenced Bulletins
139866

Adapters and Drivers


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

Intel I350c rNDC GbE 4 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

	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igbvf.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 91176
	Checksum: 0e086f13fa88839bfea7aef53fc5a5e5
	Driver Version: 2.4.0-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

Intel C621 Chipset
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 79168
	Checksum: 4f7c7f0d69f4ac743ca67d4e22b5c8ef
	Driver Version: 3.0

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:

Hewlett-Packard Company
Workstation Global Business Unit
Fort Collins , CO 80528
Website: http://www.hp.com

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