SGI® Rackable™ C1103-TY12

SGI® Rackable™ C1103-TY12
Workstation
IBM

17 Feb 2010
131315

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 10

Product Description
SGI® Rackable™ platforms offer performance and energy efficency at a breakthrough price point. The combination of advanced Intel® Xeon™ processor architecture, backed by SGI's industry-leading service and support, provides customers with exceptional value in the SGI® Rackable™ platform line available in half-depth or full-depth rack mount configurations as well as 1U, 2U, or 3U chassis options enabling customers to select the right configuration for their computing needs.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	1.3
BIOS/uEFI:	AMI V080016 12/16/2009
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor X5560 2.80 GHz
RAM:	16 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express X16 PCI Express X8 Serial 2 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	NVIDIA® Quadro® FX 5800
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel Integrated 82801JIR (ICH10R) , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	Hitachi GST HDT72502 , Serial ATA (SATA)
Floppy Type:	NONE
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.5.0-0.30

Config Notes

Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8588 and kernel update 8827 (x86-64) are required and were installed during certification testing.
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.
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).
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=10G dom0_max_vcpus=10.
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. One adapter in the embedded I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE was used during this testing.

Referenced Bulletins
141274

Adapters and Drivers


NVIDIA® Quadro® FX 5800
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: nvidia_drv.so
	Driver Date: 26-Jan-2010	Driver Size: 4520392
	Checksum: 9431d0b23bc994cc3c27a52a9954b7ee

2 Intel 82576 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 116120
	Checksum: 384f7df9f6046f20813724fd8b777e72

Intel Integrated 82801JIR (ICH10R)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 57264
	Checksum: e8a95d74b2f76b30706e49b9f192fa60

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
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
www.ibm.com

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SGI® Rackable C1103-TY12 - Yes Bulletin 131315 | SUSE