SGI® Rackable™ C2108-G8

SGI® Rackable™ C2108-G8
Network Server
Lenovo

13 Jan 2011
134524

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 5 for SUSE® SLES 12

Product Description
SGI® Rackable™ systems feature high efficiency power supplies, memory and processors to help reduce data center power and consumption and heat output. Backed by SGI's industry-leading service and support, SGI® provides customers with exceptional value in the SGI® Rackable™ C2108-G8.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	1.01
BIOS/uEFI:	AMI 1.01c 12/06/2010
CPU:	2 AMD Twelve-Core Opteron™ 6176 SE 2.30 GHz
RAM:	64 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	3 PCI Express X8 Serial 4 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eW
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic LSISAS1068E 8-port SAS Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® ST3500514NS , Serial SCSI (SAS) 2 Seagate® ST3146854SS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Floppy Type:	NONE
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.6.0-34.1

Config Notes

SUSE Driver Kit: The lenovo_x6_and_m5-sle11sp3-x86_64-1.0.iso 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: https://drivers.suse.com/lenovo/Lenovo-System-x-X6-M5/sle-11-sp3-x86_64/1.0/install-readme.html.
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.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader configuration. Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 10560 and kernel update 10549 (x86-64) are required and were installed during certification testing. Hard disk configuration: separate RAID 0. Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.2.exe).
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where one of the host network adapters was given to the SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. One of the Broadcom BCM5720 GbE adapters was used during this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eW
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 09-May-2010	Driver Size: 190624
	Checksum: febbdb06c6bac590a0a303be395a87d6

2 Intel 82576 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 158144
	Checksum: b9a09438fe817bb29b037402742c4ec9

LSI Logic LSISAS1068E 8-port SAS Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mptsas.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 104480
	Checksum: d10fc288bccf2085b063ce9ad8f72687

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:

Lenovo
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
support.lenovo.com

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SGI® Rackable C2108-G8 - Yes Bulletin 134524 | SUSE