SGI® Rackable™ C2104-F5

SGI® Rackable™ C2104-F5
Network Server
IBM

09 Aug 2010
133301

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86 with XEN Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 10

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:	3 64-bit PCI-X 2 PCI Express X8 32-bit/33MHz PCI 4 USB Ports 2 Serial
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

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader ans system configuration. Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 0 and RAID1. Manually created the UEFI boot link in the F1 setup. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with and requires the following additional load parameters: dom0_mem=12G dom0_max_vcpus=4.
Kdump (SLE12SP3): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=158M,high crashkernel=112M,low using YaST.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 12 SP3 FV guest. One of the integrated Ethernet Controller I350-AM4 adapters was used in this testing.

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" Enterprise 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/

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IBM
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SGI® Rackable C2104-F5 - Yes Bulletin 133301 | SUSE