DL785-G5

DL785-G5
Network Server
IBM

23 Oct 2009
130550

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. i386 kernel is restricted to cpu/memory limits posted at: http://www.novell.com/products/server10/techspecs.html under "Kernel Limits".

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

Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=10G dom0_max_vcpus=10.
Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8973 and kernel update 9105 (x86-64) are required and were installed during certification testing.
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 R2 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
SUSE Driver Kit: The ibm_x6-sle11sp3-x86_64 driver kit is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver kit was installed during the SLES install process as an initial bootable iso image. This driver must be downloaded and installed before the SLES install. To obtain the driver go to: http://drivers.suse.com/ibm/IBM-X6/sle11-sp3/install-readme.html.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where two of the host network adapters were given to the FV SLES 11 SP3 i586 and SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guests. One adapter from each of the Intel® I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapters was used during this testing.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter in the elilo.conf file was changed from 128 to 256 (crashkernel:512M-:256M) for kdump to function correctly.

Referenced Bulletins
141556

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 Broadcom® Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (5706c)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 194032
	Checksum: 43acc5b4410defee9acb7422083f3c65

HP Smart Array P400 (SA P400) Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: cciss.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 92464
	Checksum: 42c9e6fa0309a9c5e603f02ab3e61a3c

Broadcom® BCM5785 SATA
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: serverworks.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 26976
	Checksum: 388a1d6cfd5d36565b132ea38a7ca951

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IBM
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DL785-G5 - Yes Bulletin 130550 | SUSE