HP Integrity rx7640 PCI-express

HP Integrity rx7640 PCI-express
Network Server
Hewlett-Packard Company

04 Jun 2010
132640

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for Intel® Itanium® Processor Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
The HP Integrity rx7640 server delivers excellent performance and compute density for data center applications. Enterprises and high-performance computing centers will benefit from high levels of functionality and exceptional value in a midrange-class server.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	Rev. A4
BIOS/uEFI:	9.066
CPU:	8 Intel Dual-Core Itanium® Processor 9120N 1.42 GHz
RAM:	128 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	8 PCI Express X8 8 64-bit/133MHz PCI-X
Host Bus Adapter:	8 LSI Logic Company 53c1030 PCI-X Fusion-MPT Dual Ultra320 SCSI , SCSI
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® ST336754LC , SCSI Fujitsu MAX3036NC , SCSI 2 HP BD1468A4C5 146GB 10K Wide Ultra 320 SCSI , SCSI
Test Kit:	Partner certified 1.1

Config Notes

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.
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=20G dom0_max_vcpus=20.
Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8973 and kernel update 9105 (x86-64) are required and were installed during certification 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 R2 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
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.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where two of the host network adapters were given, one each, to the FV SLES 11 SP3 i586 and FV SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guests. Two of the Intel® I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapters was used during this testing.

Referenced Bulletins
141627

Adapters and Drivers


4 Intel 82546GB Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: e1000.ko
	Driver Date: 11-May-2010	Driver Size: 328120
	Checksum: f42f4b87a15c7b93348fb5049ff29f01

8 LSI Logic Company 53c1030 PCI-X Fusion-MPT Dual Ultra320 SCSI
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mptspi.ko
	Driver Date: 11-May-2010	Driver Size: 54464
	Checksum: 94063148b8ad891051e3ad01b4ebb18b

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:

Hewlett-Packard Company
Industry Standard Server Division
20555 SH249
Houston , TX 77070
Website: http://www.hp.com

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HP Integrity rx7640 PCI-express - Yes Bulletin 132640 | SUSE