Express5800/A1040a

Express5800/A1040a
Network Server
Lenovo

29 Nov 2012
138711

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
Express5800/A1040a is scalable high-availability server. It supports multiple CPU's, large amount of RAM and 12 local disks.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	3.0.1.7
BIOS/uEFI:	2.66
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-8870 2.40 GHz
RAM:	256 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	PCI Express X16 6 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	XGI Volari Z9s
Host Bus Adapter:	2 LSI Logic MegaRAID® SAS 9260-8i , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	12 Seagate® Savvio® 15K.3, 2.5-inch 300 GB 15K 6Gb/s SAS (ST9300653SS) , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.1.0-42.5

Config Notes

Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configur
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 guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe); using the virtio driver during certification.

Referenced Bulletins
141329

Adapters and Drivers


XGI Volari Z9s
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: xgi_drv.so
	Driver Date: 04-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 267392
	Checksum: 2ab28daad0532364a0dd3d36b2559ba1

2 Intel 82576 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: e1000e.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 330536
	Checksum: 640eff661dfb9a34e21b31165c0c77f1

Intel Integrated 82571EB (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 246368
	Checksum: fcb34e6c5610ff2a00a5460f065817e6

2 LSI Logic MegaRAID® SAS 9260-8i
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 127144
	Checksum: 9064ff5d397905a2741116667bdcf91a

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:

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

569003

Express5800/A1040a - Yes Bulletin 138711 | SUSE