HP ProLiant BL685c G7 Twelve Core 2.2GHz

HP ProLiant BL685c G7 Twelve Core 2.2GHz
Network Server
SGI

30 Jun 2010
132912

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 10

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 10	Arch: 32	Mode: Fully Virtualized
NetWare 6.5
	SP: Support Pack 8 for NetWare 6.5	Arch: 32	Mode: Paravirtualized
Windows 2003 Server R2
	SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows 2003	Arch: 32	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
For more information, please visit http://www.hp.com/go/proliantlinux.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	G7
BIOS/uEFI:	A20_04282010
CPU:	4 AMD Twelve-Core Opteron™ 6174 2.2 GHz
RAM:	16 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	3 PCI Express X8 2 PCI Express X4 Serial 3 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	ATI ES1000
Host Bus Adapter:	HP Smart Array P410i Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	HP MSA500G2 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Floppy Type:	NONE
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.5.0-0.30

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader ans system configuration. Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 0 and RAID1. Manually created the UEFI boot link in the F1 setup. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with and requires the following additional load parameters: dom0_mem=12G dom0_max_vcpus=4.
Kdump (SLE12SP3): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=158M,high crashkernel=112M,low using YaST.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 12 SP3 FV guest. One of the integrated Ethernet Controller I350-AM4 adapters was used in this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


ATI ES1000
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: radeon_drv.so
	Driver Date: 17-Mar-2008	Driver Size: 283804
	Checksum: 54e340ac765f3dcceb97d352ece9f560

2 HP NC551i Dual Port 10GB Network Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: be2net.ko
	Driver Date: 12-Jun-2010	Driver Size: 75654
	Checksum: 5fc26f7a9197c5d58f6f939ec17cc23f

HP Smart Array P410i Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: atiixp.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 13088
	Checksum: 6101b292a348220ef0de432186cc1b87

	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: cciss.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 87136
	Checksum: db9825e980f50ff584ff567f9009645b

	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 44068
	Checksum: 71171c052926eaef49f55e959ddf667a

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:

SGI
46600 Landing Parkway
Fremont , CA 94538
Voice: 650-960-1980
Website: http://www.sgi.com

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