PowerEdge 2970 / 2 AMD Dual-Core Opteron™ 2212 2.0 GHz

PowerEdge 2970 / 2 AMD Dual-Core Opteron™ 2212 2.0 GHz
Network Server
Dell Incorporated

13 Mar 2010
131441

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 highly versatile AMD based Dell PowerEdge 2970 2-socket 2U rack server provides the optimal balance of server features and size. It gives businesses the ability to maximize server performance while keeping space and energy needs to a minimum. Designed to support most any type of enterprise application, including database, email and network infrastructure, it has the versatility that businesses require.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	A00
BIOS/uEFI:	4.1.1
CPU:	2 AMD Dual-Core Opteron™ Model 2212 2.0 GHz
RAM:	4 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	Serial 4 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X8 PCI Express X4
Video Adapter:	ATI ES1000
Host Bus Adapter:	Dell Integrated PERC 5/i RAID Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS) Broadcom® HT1000 Legacy IDE controller , IDE
Hard Disk Drive:	3 Fujitsu MAY2073RC , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	TSST TS-L462D , IDE
USB Keyboard:	Cybex® AutoView Commander™ KVM w/StarTech PS2-to-USB
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 system configuration. Hard disk configuration: single SATA hard disk connected to on-board SATA HBA, M.2-two SSD configured as RAID1.
Kdump (SLE12SP2): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=156M,high crashkernel=112M,low using YaST.
Installation Kit: The lenovo_servers_thinksystem-sle12sp2-x86_64-1.0.iso installation kit is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. This installation kit must be downloaded and used to start the SLES installation. To obtain the installation kit go to: https://drivers.suse.com/lenovo/Lenovo-ThinkSystem/sle-12-sp2-x86_64/1.0/.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 12 SP2 FV guest. The Intel Ethernet Connection X722 adapter 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


ATI ES1000
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: radeon_drv.so
	Driver Date: 21-Apr-2008	Driver Size: 304640
	Checksum: 4532b0e93d2ab5a98ae54beefd43e51d

2 Broadcom® Integrated BCM5708C NetXtreme II GbE (Dual-port) controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 210128
	Checksum: 9f462115ad67e89b17221676e67ef9fc

Dell Integrated PERC 5/i RAID Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 69320
	Checksum: 9da425a767b07bf7252b8901709bc351

Broadcom® HT1000 Legacy IDE controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: serverworks.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 29848
	Checksum: 64301ae59ac93a4135458c7abe5920fc

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
1 DELL WAY
ROUND ROCK , TX 78682

587798

PowerEdge 2970 / 2 AMD Dual-Core Opteron 2212 2.0 GHz - Yes Bulletin 131441 | SUSE