ProLiant DL165 G7 2.3GHz Sixteen Core

ProLiant DL165 G7 2.3GHz Sixteen Core
Network Server
IBM

30 Jan 2012
136482

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Power 12 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 12

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 - 09/30/2011
CPU:	2 AMD Sixteen-Core Opteron™ 6276 2.30 GHz
RAM:	384 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	PCI Express X16 PCI Express X8 Serial 4 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	ServerEngines™ Integrated Pilot II Controller
Host Bus Adapter:	ATI SB700 , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	Maxtor® 6L160M0 160GB SATA , Serial ATA (SATA) Fujitsu MHV2060BH , Serial ATA (SATA)
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
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
Install: The SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server install was performed using a network install method
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 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Power 12 SP1 system requires the following two maintenance updates, 1) kernel-default-3.12.57-60.35.1.ppc64le.rpm. The system can be updated after the initial install. This update can be downloaded from: https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=qd0PaT_bWqU~ and 2) kexec-tools 1056 update available at: https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=8uWJi0YOv-o~.

Adapters and Drivers


ServerEngines™ Integrated Pilot II Controller
	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: 173032
	Checksum: e885a7dabd215037973a22c40566a353

ATI SB700
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 68024
	Checksum: 24a55b3289035ed77c631a6370bb00e2

	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: atiixp.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 27112
	Checksum: 1dd26ba5d16b1ec740ff57f397b3e724

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/

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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