PowerEdge R6415

PowerEdge R6415
Network Server
Unisys Corporation

21 Aug 2018
147009

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):

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

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	A01
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 1.4.3 (06/29/2018)
CPU:	AMD EPYC™ 7601 2.20 GHz
RAM:	Host Platform: 1 TB, 64-bit VM Guests: 288 GB, Single Max VM 64-bit Guest Tested Memory: 960 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eW3
Host Bus Adapter:	Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H730P Mini , Serial SCSI (SAS) AMD EPYC™ 7601 Integrated FCH SATA Controller , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Toshiba Enterprise Performance HDD 900 GB SAS (AL14SXB90EAY) , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	Philips and Lite-On Digital Storage Corporation DU-8A5LH DVD +/-RW , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.1.0-83.2

Config Notes

Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter in the elilo.conf file was changed from 128 to 256 (crashkernel:512M-:256M) for kdump to function correctly.
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=20G dom0_max_vcpus=20.
Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8973 and kernel update 9105 (x86-64) are required and were installed during certification testing.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
SUSE Driver Kit: TheUnisys E7000 7600R G4 Bootable 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/unisys/Unisys_E7000_7600R_G4/sle11-sp3-x86_64/1.0/install-readme.html
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where two of the host network adapters were given, one each, to the FV SLES 11 SP3 i586 and FV SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guests. Two of the Intel® I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapters was used during this testing.

Referenced Bulletins
141627

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200eW3
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Aug-2018	Driver Size: 105288
	Checksum: 71e6052f01875b97a30bd891731aa586

Intel Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T4 (Quad Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Aug-2018	Driver Size: 489496
	Checksum: 465b1b290f2344777326ee47c5b22078
	Driver Version: 5.4.0-k

	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igbvf.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Aug-2018	Driver Size: 91176
	Checksum: ed96ec19f4e88194d3bd77e6494fc577
	Driver Version: 2.4.0-k

Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H730P Mini
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Aug-2018	Driver Size: 288936
	Checksum: cfc941ec9299c2ac9c5d7ec304c7531c
	Driver Version: 07.704.04.00-rc1

AMD EPYC™ 7601 Integrated FCH SATA Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Aug-2018	Driver Size: 79168
	Checksum: df863c78eae4eccdb697f5f71aa8bf85
	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:

Unisys Corporation
Unisys Way
Blue Bell , PA 19424
Voice: 408-434-2600
Fax: 408-434-2688
Website: http://www.unisys.com

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