ProLiant XL420 Gen10 Plus (Apollo 4200) (3rd Gen-2.2, 32c)

ProLiant XL420 Gen10 Plus (Apollo 4200) (3rd Gen-2.2, 32c)
Network Server
IBM

15 Jul 2021
150506

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

Windows Server 2016
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
2 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 2 for SUSE SLES 15	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	Gen10 Plus
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: U50 (04/28/2021)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8352Y Processor 2.20 GHz
RAM:	Host: 256 GB, 64-bit VM Guests: 62 GB, Single Max VM 64-bit Guest Tested Memory: 202 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports Serial 2 PCI Express X16 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox Graphics Inc. G200eH3
Host Bus Adapter:	HPE Smart Array P408i-a SR Gen10 Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	HPE MO003200JWDLB MSA 3.2TB 12G SAS MU SSD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.5.0-29.4

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 0.
The megaraid_sas.ko used during testing is not SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver was installed from the following driver package: ibm_dd_sraidmr_6.602.03.00-2_sles11_32-64.tgz. This driver package must be downloaded and installed during the SLES install. To obtain the driver go to: http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/systemx/downloadFixes?parent=Lenovo%2BNeXtScale%2Bnx360%2BM5&product=ibm/systemx/5465&&platform=SLES+11+x64&function=fixId&fixids=ibm_dd_sraidmr_6.602.03.00-2_sles11_32-64&includeRequisites=1&includeSupersedes=0&downloadMethod=http.
Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 Xen maintenance update 9828, kernel update 9751 and grub2 update 9621 are required and were installed during certification testing. Changed Operating Mode in UEFI setup from default "Efficiency - Favor Performance" to "Custom".
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=4G dom0_max_vcpus=4.
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).

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox Graphics Inc. G200eH3
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 06-Jun-2020	Driver Size: 82584
	Checksum: f4565df412097c9a985a175aae408518

HPE Ethernet 1Gb 4-port Base-T I350-T4 OCP3 Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 06-Jun-2020	Driver Size: 496728
	Checksum: bbf398d0be838fc838a89ffa888d4513
	Driver Version: 5.6.0-k

	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igbvf.ko
	Driver Date: 06-Jun-2020	Driver Size: 91648
	Checksum: c3f471c2f7dbd65b4c98d5280e152139
	Driver Version: 2.4.0-k

HPE Smart Array P408i-a SR Gen10 Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: smartpqi.ko
	Driver Date: 07-Jun-2020	Driver Size: 175904
	Checksum: c42f15d5d3945f535de77f01460412a5
	Driver Version: 1.2.10-025

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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