SGI® Rackable™ C2108-G9

SGI® Rackable™ C2108-G9
Network Server
SGI

14 Nov 2011
136354

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

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

Product Description
SGI® Rackable™ systems feature high efficiency power supplies, memory and processors to help reduce data center power and consumption and heat output. Backed by SGI's industry-leading service and support, SGI® provides customers with exceptional value in the SGI® Rackable™ C2108-G9.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	2.00
BIOS/uEFI:	AMI 2.0 07/20/2011
CPU:	2 AMD Eight-Core Opteron™ Model 6220 3.0 GHz
RAM:	64 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	3 PCI Express X8 Serial 4 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eW
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic LSISAS1078E 8-port SAS Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Seagate® ST3146356SS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Floppy Type:	NONE
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.0-81.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: separate RAID 0.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=210M,high crashkernel=162M,low" using YaST.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to one of the SLES 12 guests. One of the embedded Intel X540 ML2 Dual Port 10GbaseT adapters was used in this testing.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.3.exe), the virtio network drivers were used during testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eW
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 30-May-2011	Driver Size: 190624
	Checksum: 06e27bda91a2f86d2f57b3a06b65cea3

2 Intel 82576 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 17-Jul-2011	Driver Size: 158992
	Checksum: f0e4c012d3e5b2ed5bfe4076fd7f6c8e

LSI Logic LSISAS1078E 8-port SAS Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 17-Jul-2011	Driver Size: 87152
	Checksum: cc9b4b41a57ebc3ff6887e8136ebf064

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
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