ProLiant BL465c Gen8 2.4 GHz Sixteen Core

ProLiant BL465c Gen8 2.4 GHz Sixteen Core
Network Server
Hewlett-Packard Company

08 Aug 2012
138097

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64 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:	G8
BIOS/uEFI:	A26 05/15/2012
CPU:	2 AMD Sixteen-Core Opteron™ 6278 2.40 GHz
RAM:	512 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	PCI Express X16 PCI Express X8 Serial 3 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eH
Host Bus Adapter:	HP Smart Array P220i , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	HP EG0900FBLSK-Seagate SAS II-2.5in 900G/10K , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.1.0-33.2

Config Notes

Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=170M,high crashkernel=142M,low" using YaST.
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard Disk Configuration: RAID1 and RAID 5. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=6G dom0_max_vcpus=4.
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 https://download.suse.com/ (VMDP-WIN-2.3.exe).
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a FV SLES 12 guest. One of the Intel I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE adapters was used in this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200eH
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 16-Feb-2011	Driver Size: 173128
	Checksum: 8ebfc17a3c242bbbf0e8881cb3c825c9

HP FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 554FLB FlexibleLOM
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: be2net.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 92512
	Checksum: 27069338dc85127fec078e67bc26a99c

HP Smart Array P220i
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: cciss.ko
	Driver Date: 30-May-2012	Driver Size: 147121
	Checksum: 07f083bb389f534518e002e6308005b2

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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