NovaScale T840 F3

NovaScale T840 F3
Network Server
Cisco Systems, Inc.

11 Sep 2012
138525

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Tower
Mother Board Revision:	A00
BIOS/uEFI:	1.0.4
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2690 2.90 GHz
RAM:	768 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	PCI Express X4 2 PCI Express X8 4 PCI Express X16 6 USB Ports Serial
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR
Host Bus Adapter:	Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H710P , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® ST9300603SS Savvio® 10K.3 6-Gb/s 300-GB , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	Teac DV28SW , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.1.0-30.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed using an external USB connected DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
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).
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where one of the host network adapters was given to one of the SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guests. The embedded, Intel® Ethernet Controller I350-AM4 (Quad Port), adapter was used during this testing.
Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update, slessp3-xen-201307-8063, is required and was installed during certification testing.
Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 0.

Referenced Bulletins
140246

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 16-Jan-2012	Driver Size: 190688
	Checksum: 4c52fd55d809f6d1d874b06a086608af

Intel Ethernet Controller I350-AM2 (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 16-Jan-2012	Driver Size: 246368
	Checksum: f2bc5bf3e5efc2e90d4eb142f9a2b776

Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H710P
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 16-Jan-2012	Driver Size: 127144
	Checksum: b49348a99f280896c8645e6df242e745

	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 16-Jan-2012	Driver Size: 52608
	Checksum: bfbf2200a9e0ac0c5ce84f04b7370f2b

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:

Cisco Systems, Inc.
170 West Tasman Dr.
San Jose , CA 95134
Voice: (408) 526-4000
Toll Free: (800) 553-NETS or (800) 553-6387
Website: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/servers-unified-computing/unified-computing-system/products-technical-reference-list.html

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NovaScale T840 F3 - Yes Bulletin 138525 | SUSE