PRIMERGY® TX150 S8

PRIMERGY® TX150 S8
Network Server
Hewlett-Packard Company

29 Aug 2012
138458

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 10

Other Products:

Novell® Open Enterprise Server 2 Support Pack 2

Product Description
The PRIMERGY TX150 S8 stands for reliable and expandable server performance for SMEs, branch offices and virtualized environments. New to the PRIMERGY TX150 platform: The Intel® Xeon® E5-2400 processor family provides a maximum of expandability in an one-socket server. Future demand is perfectly covered by 5 PCIe Gen2/3 expansion slots, up to 96 GB of memory and up to 16 hard disk drives. At the same time the optional redundant power supply units and fans ensure stable and reliable computing. And of course: Fujitsu’s patented Cool-safe™ concept together with processors of the Intel® E5-2400 family guarantee best energy efficient performance. For more details please refer to the data sheet at: http://docs.ts.fujitsu.com/dl.aspx?id=83a8daa0-eebb-4c68-8e97-d45f92eed6d1

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Tower
Mother Board Revision:	D3079
BIOS/uEFI:	R1.6.0
CPU:	Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2440 2.40 GHz
RAM:	16 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	PCI Express X16 3 PCI Express X4 PCI Express X1 32-bit/33MHz PCI 9 USB Ports Serial
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200e
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel BD82C602 PCH , Serial ATA (SATA) LSI Logic MegaRAID® SAS 9261-8i , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Seagate® ST9146853SS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	TSST CDDVDW SN-208AB , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.1.0-33.2

Config Notes

Headless configuration - no graphics adapter. System configured using IBM remote Hardware Management Console (HMC) for graphics, keyboard and mouse.
Install: The SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server install was performed using a network install method. The following TID was used to perform the install: https://www.suse.com/de-de/support/kb/doc/?id=7021181. The kernel was then updated with the following kernel update: https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=s57IyOa_Iw8~ Following TID https://www.suse.com/de-de/support/kb/doc/?id=7023433 was used to add additional boot parameters.
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
Power management: The System/Processor dynamic CPU frequency scaling functionality in SLES is not supported on POWER9 (PowerVM) as this functionality is provided by the POWER9 hardware itself.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200e
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 04-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 204964
	Checksum: 6e4febcdc166990d8ac5cfdb0dfbd20d

2 Intel 82574L Gigabit Ethernet
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: e1000e.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 239220
	Checksum: 8c5e4a93254a9dee43c9269262dd38e8

Intel BD82C602 PCH
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 16-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 42976
	Checksum: f38a6f2c38ccc056ced4d9ed302fcf7a

LSI Logic MegaRAID® SAS 9261-8i
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 91432
	Checksum: 4347a5d366074680614ca1f187029e3d

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
Storage Division
11445 Compaq Center Dr. W
Houston , TX 77070
Website: http://h18006.www1.hp.com/storage/tapestorage/index.html

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