ProLiant DL288 G6 3.06GHz Six Core

ProLiant DL288 G6 3.06GHz Six Core
Network Server
Unisys Corporation

25 Jul 2011
135928

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SLES 10	Arch: 32pae	Mode: Paravirtualized
SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SLES 10	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
Windows 2003 Server R2
	SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows 2003	Arch: 32	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
HP Proliant DL288 G6 support with Intel's Westmere processors.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	G6
BIOS/uEFI:	O20
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor X5675 3.06 GHz
RAM:	48 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express X16 PCI Express X4
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200e
Host Bus Adapter:	HP Smart Array P410 controller , Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel Integrated 82801JI ICH10 , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	8 Seagate® ST3146854SS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	HP DVD A DS8A5LH , IDE
USB Keyboard:	HP Model No: KU-0316
USB Mouse:	PIXART No:OP-220
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.0-81.1

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 Unisys E7000 7600R G4 Bootable 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/unisys/Unisys_E7000_7600R_G4/sle11-sp3-x86_64/1.0/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


Matrox® MGA G200e
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 16-Feb-2011	Driver Size: 173128
	Checksum: 8ebfc17a3c242bbbf0e8881cb3c825c9

HP NC362i Dual Port Gigabit Server Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 163616
	Checksum: 74024b1a47ab8d4273bb985f18017e16

HP Smart Array P410 controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: cciss.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 123832
	Checksum: 40858d2206d2cea7095b82a4bba79082

Intel Integrated 82801JI ICH10
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_piix.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 34392
	Checksum: 1da23a8df6d6feaab4dcaf64c909c893

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:

Unisys Corporation
Unisys Way
Blue Bell , PA 19424
Voice: 408-434-2600
Fax: 408-434-2688
Website: http://www.unisys.com

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