SGI® Rackable™ C2002-F5

SGI® Rackable™ C2002-F5
Network Server
IBM

31 Jul 2010
133213

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Power 12

Product Description
SGI® Rackable™ platforms offer superior performance and energy efficiency 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.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	S2932G2NR-SI
BIOS/uEFI:	V2.06
CPU:	2 AMD Six-Core AMD Opteron™ 8431 2.40 GHz
RAM:	128 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 Serial 3 64-bit PCI-X 2 PCI Express X8 32-bit/33MHz PCI 4 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	ATI ES1000
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 8888ELP , Serial SCSI (SAS) NVIDIA® nForce™ Professional 3600 , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Seagate® Barracuda® ES.2 ST3750330NS , Serial ATA (SATA) 2 Seagate® ST3300655SS Cheetah 15K.5 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.6.0-34.1

Config Notes

Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were changed based on the content in the following knowledge-base article: http://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=3374462.
Power management: The System/Processor dynamic CPU frequency scaling functionality in SLES is not supported on POWER9 with PowerVM as this functionality is provided by the POWER9 with PowerVM hardware its-self.
Headless configuration - no graphics adapter. System configured using IBM remote Hardware Management Console (HMC) for graphics, keyboard and mouse.
Install: The SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server install was performed using a network install method.
Latest maintenance kernel 4.4.114-94.14-default.ppc64le is installed for basic POWER9 support from https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=MiaxOdQDFSA~

Referenced Bulletins
146671

Adapters and Drivers


ATI ES1000
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: radeon_drv.so
	Driver Date: 22-Apr-2008	Driver Size: 304640
	Checksum: 4532b0e93d2ab5a98ae54beefd43e51d

2 NVIDIA® nForce™ Pro 3600 Dual Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: forcedeth.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 54144
	Checksum: 2e9bc27c8df03d9643c1ca24796f50af

LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 8888ELP
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 69320
	Checksum: 9da425a767b07bf7252b8901709bc351

NVIDIA® nForce™ Professional 3600
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: sata_nv.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 48456
	Checksum: 920a7e2c21e7b1f47726e124f6bda16b

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:
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SGI® Rackable C2002-F5 - Yes Bulletin 133213 | SUSE