Bull NovaScale R450 F3 /2 Intel® Xeon® E5-2470 2.3 GHz

Bull NovaScale R450 F3 /2 Intel® Xeon® E5-2470 2.3 GHz
Network Server
IBM

23 Nov 2012
138707

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
http://www.bull.com/catalogue/details.asp?tmp=nsu-rack&opt=nsr450f03&dt=ch

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	A00
BIOS/uEFI:	1.0.0
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2470 2.30 GHz
RAM:	384 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	PCI Express X16 3 PCI Express X8 Serial 5 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel BD82C602J PCH , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® ST500NM0011 , Serial ATA (SATA)
CD/DVD:	Philips and Lite-On Digital Storage Corporation DS-8A5SH , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.1.0-33.2

Config Notes

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).
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=5G dom0_max_vcpus=4.
Install: System installed using external USB connected DVD drive; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.

Referenced Bulletins
140084

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: fbdev_drv.so
	Driver Date: 17-Feb-2011	Driver Size: 23984


Broadcom® BCM5720 dual-port PCI Express® GbE Network Interface Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 07-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 198670


Intel BD82C602J PCH
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 68024
	Checksum: 24a55b3289035ed77c631a6370bb00e2

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:

IBM
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
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