PowerEdge T610 / 2 Intel® Xeon® E5530 2.40 GHz

PowerEdge T610 / 2 Intel® Xeon® E5530 2.40 GHz
Network Server
Dell Incorporated

17 Jan 2010
131131

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

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

Other Products:

Novell® Open Enterprise Server 2 Support Pack 2

Product Description
The Dell™ PowerEdge™ T610 server is a key data center building block for IT professionals seeking the highest level of performance, availability, and expandability in a 2-socket server. Featuring Intel® Xeon® E5530 processor, embedded hypervisors and expanded memory and I/O, Dell’s next generation PowerEdge server offers better overall system performance and virtual machine per server capacity than ever before. Ideally suited for small and medium businesses and remote office customers, the T610 delivers enhanced virtualization, improved design, and energy efficiency in a design engineered to address current and future business needs.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Tower
Mother Board Revision:	A00
BIOS/uEFI:	1.3.6
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5530 2.40 GHz
RAM:	6 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express X4 3 PCI Express X8 8 USB Ports Serial
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eW
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel Integrated 82801IB ICH9 , Serial ATA (SATA) Dell Integrated PERC 6/i RAID Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Seagate® ST973402SS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	TSST TS-H653F , Serial ATA (SATA)
USB Keyboard:	Belkin PS2 to USB KVM
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.5.0-0.30

Config Notes

Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
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.
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.
Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.

Referenced Bulletins
141625

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eW
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 24-Aug-2009	Driver Size: 173128
	Checksum: 96a33dda383f3a9a0105217ce9af245a

2 Broadcom® Integrated 5709c NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 210128
	Checksum: 9f462115ad67e89b17221676e67ef9fc

Intel Integrated 82801IB ICH9
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_piix.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 45928
	Checksum: a52e876adcd5e3c2c13ade06e300a3cf

Dell Integrated PERC 6/i RAID Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 69320
	Checksum: 9da425a767b07bf7252b8901709bc351

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:

Dell Incorporated
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