ProLiant BL685c G7 2.30GHz Sixteen Core

ProLiant BL685c G7 2.30GHz Sixteen Core
Network Server
Hewlett-Packard Company

21 Nov 2011
136395

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

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

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

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	G7
BIOS/uEFI:	A20 - 10/02/2011
CPU:	4 AMD Sixteen-Core Opteron™ 6276 2.30 GHz
RAM:	16 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	3 PCI Express X8 3 USB Ports Serial
Video Adapter:	ATI ES1000
Host Bus Adapter:	HP Smart Array P410i Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	HP 500GB SAS Model MM0500FAMYT , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Floppy Type:	NONE
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.0-81.1

Config Notes

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.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were changed based on the content in the following knowledge-base article: https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=3374462. Kdump (SLES11SP4): the crash kernel reserved memory parameter was changed to crashkernel=16384M-:8192M for kdump during certification testing.
Power management: The System/Processor dynamic CPU frequency scaling functionality in SLES is not supported on POWER8 (PowerVM) as this functionality is provided by the POWER8 hardware itself.
Maintenance updates: The following updates are required to the Kernel (12869), Kexec-tools (12962) and Kdump (12411). https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=abdTREGeaIw~ https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=s5MyAyB4ZRQ https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=yjNH0ugcd_E~
Kernel-bigmem for SAP HANA environments on ppc64: Kernel-bigmem is required to be run on a system with more than 1024 logical CPU threads, which in this case IBM Power System E880 was configured with 192 physical CPU core with SMT8 resulting 1536 logical CPU threads. Also, ppc64 systems with more than 1.5TB of main memory; for specific support, configuration and memory requirements please read the following knowledge base web link. https://www.suse.com/de-de/support/kb/doc/?id=7018408.

Adapters and Drivers


ATI ES1000
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: radeon_drv.so
	Driver Date: 17-Mar-2008	Driver Size: 283804
	Checksum: 54e340ac765f3dcceb97d352ece9f560

2 HP NC551i Dual Port 10GB Network Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: be2net.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 76664
	Checksum: ead0c0ada2a81d32510c205dd34cd5f4

HP Smart Array P410i Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: cciss.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 112752
	Checksum: 7e83e5a02cd591dd68cccca3154cd443

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:

Hewlett-Packard Company
Industry Standard Server Division
20555 SH249
Houston , TX 77070
Website: http://www.hp.com

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