PRIMERGY® RX300 S3

PRIMERGY® RX300 S3
Network Server
SGI

24 Nov 2009
130786

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

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

Product Description
PRIMERGY RX300 S3 rack server packs the capacity of a fully-featured departmental server into a rack design only 2 U in height. It is offering the breakthrough performance features of leading edge Dual- or Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® CPUs embedded in a powerful design with an 8-port SAS controller and fast PCIe links and PCI-X busses. Expandability is covering for nearly any workload: 32 GB FBD667 memory, up to 6 SAS / SATA or up to 12x 2.5 inch SAS hard disk drives, and sufficient free PCI slots for heavy I/O requirements. To guarantee its high availability level, PRIMERGY RX300 S3 delivers: redundant hot-plug power supplies and fans option, Hot-pluggable hard disk drives and PCIe cards and onboard RAID. Special attention is given to secure memory data, with SDDC and memory mirroring option. The new „Cool-safe™“ technology secures optimal temperatures even at peak workloads, such ensuring longevity and extended Mean Time Between Failures. With this built-in failsafe functionality PRIMERGY RX300 S3 is suited ideally to meet demands for continuous operation in business critical environments, running data bases, terminal services, business applications or consolidation and virtual machine tasks.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	D2119
BIOS/uEFI:	4.06 Rev. 1.16.2119
CPU:	2 Intel Quad-Core Xeon® Processor E5335 2 GHz
RAM:	16 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	Serial 4 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X4 PCI Express X8 2 64-bit/133MHz PCI-X
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200e
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel Integrated 6311 ESB ICH , IDE LSI Logic LSISAS 1068 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Seagate® ST9146802SS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	HLDS GSA-T20N , IDE
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.5.0-0.28

Config Notes

PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where one of the host network adapters was given to one of the SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guests. The embedded, Intel® Ethernet Controller I350-AM4 (Quad Port), adapter was used during this testing.
VM Driver Pack: All 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).
Install: System installed using external USB connected DVD drive; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.

Referenced Bulletins
140612

Adapters and Drivers


Intel Integrated 6311 ESB ICH
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_piix.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 37888
	Checksum: f81281db8221f758e7111cd80015aebe

LSI Logic LSISAS 1068
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 52504
	Checksum: 759f46f9d1e9f6f78cd97907efc0ff27

Matrox® MGA G200e
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 25-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 195712
	Checksum: aa323e9b7243810830f170a73c0337cf

2 Broadcom® Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 168872
	Checksum: 99d396999a5f7b770a244b2318fef9ea

The term SUSE YES 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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PRIMERGY® RX300 S3 - Yes Bulletin 130786 | SUSE