PowerEdge R640

PowerEdge R640
Network Server
Dell Incorporated

10 Dec 2020
150045

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 15

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

3 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 1 for SUSE SLES 15	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	A00
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 2.9.4 (11/06/2020)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8280M Processor 2.70 GHz
RAM:	Host Platform: 3072 GB, 64-bit VM Guests: 842 GB, Single Max VM 64-bit Guest Tested Memory: 2560 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X16 2 PCI Express X4
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eW3
Host Bus Adapter:	Dell PERC H740P Mini , Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel C621 Chipset , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	3 Seagate® ST1000NX0453 2.5 inch, 1TB, 12Gb/s, SAS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	LG GU90N , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.5.0-29.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed using the internal DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where one of the host network adapters was given to one of the SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guests. One of the embedded Intel Ethernet Controller I350-AM4 adapters was used in this 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 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe), and the virtio network drivers were used during testing.

Referenced Bulletins
140237

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200eW3
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 14-May-2019	Driver Size: 102080
	Checksum: 07cad92cf9d842281e5e704f469b323c

Intel I350c rNDC GbE 4 port
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igbvf.ko
	Driver Date: 14-May-2019	Driver Size: 90808
	Checksum: 08d105b5cb3f020502441d107d9bb083
	Driver Version: 2.4.0-k

	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 15-May-2019	Driver Size: 496992
	Checksum: 1bbdfabf69501dd0a3c43a5e18035bd4
	Driver Version: 5.4.0-k

Dell PERC H740P Mini
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 14-May-2019	Driver Size: 296104
	Checksum: 0c021a1293826b2f98a1f58789f0ebda
	Driver Version: 07.707.50.00-rc1

Intel C621 Chipset
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 14-May-2019	Driver Size: 81288
	Checksum: cda6f840da0973af652a5672382ed473
	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:

Dell Incorporated
1 DELL WAY
ROUND ROCK , TX 78682

560837

PowerEdge R640 - Yes Bulletin 150045 | SUSE