DL785-G5

DL785-G5
Network Server
IBM

23 Oct 2009
130549

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

Product Description
The HP ProLiant DL785-G5 is an 8 socket x86 server, supporting up to eight(8) Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) processors, 512GB of memory, 11 PCI-e I/O slots or an optional I/O backplane with 7 PCI-e & 2 HTx I/O slots.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	A1
BIOS/uEFI:	A15 08142009
CPU:	4 AMD Quad-Core Opteron™ Model 2393SE 3.1GHz
RAM:	16 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	3 PCI Express X16 3 PCI Express X8 5 PCI Express X4
Video Adapter:	ATI ES1000
Host Bus Adapter:	HP Smart Array P400 (SA P400) Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS) Broadcom® BCM5785 SATA , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	8 HP DH072ABAA6 72GB SAS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	Teac DV-28E-V , IDE
USB Keyboard:	HP USB Keyboard KU-9963
USB Mouse:	HP USB Mouse (generic)
Test Kit:	Partner certified 1.1

Config Notes

Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 0 and RAID1.
Install: System installed using an external USB connected DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where the network adapter was given to the SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. An added network adapter, Intel PRO/1000 PT Server Adapter (82572EI GB Ethernet Controller), was used in this testing - this adapter was using the standard SP3 e1000e driver.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV network drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2008 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).

Referenced Bulletins
139884

Adapters and Drivers


ATI ES1000
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: radeon_drv.so
	Driver Date: 21-Apr-2008	Driver Size: 304640
	Checksum: 4532b0e93d2ab5a98ae54beefd43e51d

2 Broadcom® Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (5706c)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 210128
	Checksum: 9f462115ad67e89b17221676e67ef9fc

HP Smart Array P400 (SA P400) Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: cciss.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 117000
	Checksum: 07e9c11ddd32c66718cd6ef1bd10d59d

Broadcom® BCM5785 SATA
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: serverworks.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 29848
	Checksum: 64301ae59ac93a4135458c7abe5920fc

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For more information regarding the specific test configuration, please contact:

IBM
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DL785-G5 - Yes Bulletin 130549 | SUSE