PowerEdge M420 /2 Intel® Xeon® E5-2470 2.3 GHz

PowerEdge M420 /2 Intel® Xeon® E5-2470 2.3 GHz
Network Server
Hewlett-Packard Company

02 Nov 2012
138665

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	A00
BIOS/uEFI:	1.0.1
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2470 2.30 GHz
RAM:	192 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eW
Host Bus Adapter:	Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H310 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Dell SMART XCEED IOPS SSD 50G SATA , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.1.0-33.2

Config Notes

Install: OS installed via USB CD/DVD drive.
Headless configuration - no graphics adapter. System configured using remote Hardware Management Console (HMC) for graphics, keyboard and mouse.
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.
No FC card installed in the server, the disk in the server is nvme ssd.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eW
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: fbdev_drv.so
	Driver Date: 21-Apr-2008	Driver Size: 23984
	Checksum: 51cc22089119a901912f6dec9ae0c1f4

Broadcom® BCM57810 10Gb Network Adapter (DualPort)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2x.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Dec-2011	Driver Size: 1353693


Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H310
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 131640
	Checksum: 7e4aa46a1bf609dd0be6697b574c1c82

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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PowerEdge M420 /2 Intel® Xeon® E5-2470 2.3 GHz - Yes Bulletin 138665 | SUSE