UCS C250 M2

UCS C250 M2
Network Server
Lenovo

31 Jan 2012
136502

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 12

Product Description
Cisco UCS C250 M2 rack mount server, http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/ps10265/ps10493/data_sheet_c78-587525.html

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	2.0
BIOS/uEFI:	C250.1.4.3a.0.122120111208
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor X5570 2.93 GHz
RAM:	64 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express X16 3 PCI Express X8 Serial 2 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200e
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel Integrated 82801JIR (ICH10R) , Serial ATA (SATA) LSI Logic SAS1068E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Seagate® ST9146803SS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	TSST DVD+/-RW TS-L633C , Serial ATA (SATA)
USB Keyboard:	Logitech
USB Mouse:	Logitech
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.0-81.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Tested as a 1-node scalable partition with 4 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 1.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to one of the SLES 12 guests. One of the Emulex VFA5 ML2 Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ Adapters was used in this testing.
VM Driver Pack: All 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.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.3.exe).
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=223M,high crashkernel=142M,low" using YaST.

Referenced Bulletins
144976

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

Broadcom® Integrated 5709c NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Quad Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 224440
	Checksum: 7f09c2163ed8665f9b349b7d775151c0

Intel Integrated 82801JIR (ICH10R)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_piix.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 46680
	Checksum: a3f37a00c24677981ed4bf2bbca089fb

LSI Logic SAS1068E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mptsas.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 93904
	Checksum: aaa4a851751d4fe198683ef91694f133

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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