PowerEdge R820 /4 Intel® Xeon® E5-4650 2.7 GHz

PowerEdge R820 /4 Intel® Xeon® E5-4650 2.7 GHz
Network Server
Hitachi Vantara

16 May 2012
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SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 12

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	A00
BIOS/uEFI:	1.0.0
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-4650 2.70 GHz
RAM:	1536 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express X16 5 PCI Express X8 Serial 4 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel 82801 SATA RAID Controller , Serial ATA (SATA) Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H710P , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	4 Seagate® ST9300453SS 15K 300GB SAS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	Philips and Lite-On Digital Storage Corporation DS-8A5SH , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.1.0-33.2

Config Notes

Install: PXE boot, OS installed via network.
Kdump (SLES12SP4): the crash kernel memory parameters were increased from default to crashkernel=768M,high crashkernel =128M,low using YaST.
Newer versions of the Mellanox firmware and drivers were used to support the Mellanox ConnectX-4 Lx MCX4121A-XCAT card that was tested in this configuration. The ISO located at http://www.mellanox.com/page/products_dyn?product_family=26&mtag=linux_sw_drivers and the instructions located at https://docs.mellanox.com/display/MLNXOFEDv461000/Installing+Mellanox+OFED were used. These drivers are not SolidDriver compliant.

Referenced Bulletins
148200

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 04-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 190688
	Checksum: 9ec99a5b6850be782df01c0b7663d67f

2 Broadcom® BCM5720 dual-port PCI Express® GbE Network Interface Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 223384
	Checksum: 76a70bfcec58d2d10d9514f1d2ec4a86

Intel 82801 SATA RAID Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 52464
	Checksum: 8e7f557e5cfe98455deef90148417821

Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H710P
	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:

Hitachi Vantara
2845 Lafayette Street
Santa Clara , CA 95050-2639
Voice: 1-408-970-1000
Toll Free: 1-800-446-0744
Fax: 1-408-457-0155
Website: www.hitachivantara.com

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