PowerEdge R710 / 2 Intel® Xeon® X5570 2.93 GHz

PowerEdge R710 / 2 Intel® Xeon® X5570 2.93 GHz
Network Server
IBM

22 Dec 2009
131010

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
PowerEdge R710

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	A02
BIOS/uEFI:	1.2.6
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor X5570 2.93 GHz
RAM:	8 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express X4 2 PCI Express X8 5 USB Ports Serial
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eW
Host Bus Adapter:	Dell Integrated SAS 6/iR Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS) QLogic ISP2432-based 4Gb Fibre Channel to PCI Express HBA , FibreChannel Intel Integrated 82801IB ICH9 , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Seagate® ST973451SS , Serial SCSI (SAS) 10 Seagate® ST3300655SS Cheetah 15K.5 , FibreChannel
Storage Area Network (SAN) Device:	EMC CLARiiON CX4 Model 480
CD/DVD:	Teac DVD-ROM DV28E-C , Serial ATA (SATA)
USB Keyboard:	Dell SK-8115
USB Mouse:	Dell M-UR69
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.
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 a SLES 12 SP3 guest. One of the integrated Ethernet Controller I350-AM4 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 Server 2016 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.4.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: 25-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 201412
	Checksum: 82bb390e7cef098e3160a754caeb9408

4 Broadcom® Integrated 5709c NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 185028
	Checksum: 7167ced0f73fb67282fe8b1944f7fd5a

Dell Integrated SAS 6/iR Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mptsas.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 68796
	Checksum: a3aebcbf2e2e8f2e4e20c693f2fbc312

QLogic ISP2432-based 4Gb Fibre Channel to PCI Express HBA
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: qla2xxx.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 237452
	Checksum: aa040744f0c67f325482cbab66170543
	Driver Version: 8.02.01.03.1

Intel Integrated 82801IB ICH9
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_piix.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 26820
	Checksum: 7a92dea337a702c11024dde1a0356d5c

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:

IBM
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PowerEdge R710 / 2 Intel® Xeon® X5570 2.93 GHz - Yes Bulletin 131010 | SUSE