NovaScale R440 F3

NovaScale R440 F3
Network Server
Lenovo

11 Sep 2012
138527

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 5 for SUSE® SLES 15

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
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:	2 PCI Express X16 Serial 5 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR
Host Bus Adapter:	Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H310 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Fujitsu MBE2147RC , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	Philips and Lite-On Digital Storage Corporation DVD+-RW DS-8A3S , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.1.0-33.2

Config Notes

Install: System installed using PXE UEFI network install; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration. Tested as a 1-node scalable partition with 4 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 6.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter in the elilo.conf file was changed from 128 to 256 (crashkernel=512M-:256M) for kdump to function correctly.
VM Driver Pack: All FV 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-2.2.exe).
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=10G dom0_max_vcpus=10.

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

Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H310
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 52464
	Checksum: 8e7f557e5cfe98455deef90148417821

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

The term SUSE "YES" Enterprise 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:

Lenovo
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
support.lenovo.com

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