ProLiant DL165 G7 2.0GHz Eight Core

ProLiant DL165 G7 2.0GHz Eight Core
Network Server
IBM

18 Aug 2011
136070

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

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

Product Description
For more information, please visit http://www.hp.com/go/proliantlinux.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	G7
BIOS/uEFI:	O37 - 12/20/2010
CPU:	2 AMD Eight-Core Opteron™ Model 6128 2.0 GHz
RAM:	256 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports PCI Express X16 PCI Express X8 Serial
Video Adapter:	ServerEngines™ Integrated Pilot II Controller
Host Bus Adapter:	ATI SB700 , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® ST31000340NS Barracuda , Serial ATA (SATA) Seagate® ST3250620NS , Serial ATA (SATA)
CD/DVD:	Sony Optiarc DVD-ROM DDU820S , Serial ATA (SATA)
Floppy Type:	NONE
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.6.0-34.1

Config Notes

Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
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.
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.

Referenced Bulletins
141518

Adapters and Drivers


ServerEngines™ Integrated Pilot II Controller
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 173128
	Checksum: 96a33dda383f3a9a0105217ce9af245a

4 HP NC362i Dual Port Gigabit Server Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 146768
	Checksum: 4e0faf6cbc26fd4c01b8344e7c6ec1b1

ATI SB700
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: atiixp.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 26944
	Checksum: fac61db82b12bf5d97935254ebb6cbb3

	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 63888
	Checksum: b71ff75c0d45cba740b5c3bd6d79d1cd

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:
www.ibm.com

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