PowerEdge R515 / 2 AMD Eight-Core Opteron™ 4284 3.0 GHz

PowerEdge R515 / 2 AMD Eight-Core Opteron™ 4284 3.0 GHz
Network Server
IBM

03 Apr 2012
137287

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

Product Description
The PowerEdge R515 is a 2-socket, 2U rack server ideal for IT infrastructure, file/print, web application, email and small virtualization deployments as well as entry HPC implementations.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	A00
BIOS/uEFI:	1.8.6
CPU:	2 AMD Eight-Core Opteron™ Model 4284 3.0 GHz
RAM:	128 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	PCI Express X8 3 PCI Express X4 Serial 5 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eW
Host Bus Adapter:	Dell PERC H700 Integrated , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® ST32000644NS - Constellation™ ES SATA 3Gb/s 2-TB Hard Drive , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.1.0-33.2

Config Notes

System was configured as 2-node scalable partition.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe), and the virtio network drivers were used during testing.
Install: System installed using the internal DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
Kdump: Yast2 - Kernel kdump - kdump memory was increased from 128 to 256 MB for kdump to function.
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=5G dom0_max_vcpus=4.

Referenced Bulletins
139150

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eW
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 04-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 190688
	Checksum: 9ec99a5b6850be782df01c0b7663d67f

Broadcom® BCM5716 NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 123200
	Checksum: 98580a3cc9f9f045befc4fa619c9cd70

Dell PERC H700 Integrated
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 127144
	Checksum: 9064ff5d397905a2741116667bdcf91a

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
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PowerEdge R515 / 2 AMD Eight-Core Opteron™ 4284 3.0 GHz - Yes Bulletin 137287 | SUSE