ProLiant BL465c Gen8 2.5 GHz Sixteen Core

ProLiant BL465c Gen8 2.5 GHz Sixteen Core
Network Server
Hewlett-Packard Company

04 Dec 2012
138739

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86 with XEN Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 10

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SLES 10	Arch: 32	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SLES 10	Arch: 32pae	Mode: Paravirtualized
Windows Server 2008
	SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2008	Arch: 32	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
For more information, please visit http://www.hp.com/go/proliantlinux

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	G8
BIOS/uEFI:	A26 08/14/2012
CPU:	2 AMD Sixteen-Core Opteron™ 6380 2.50 GHz
RAM:	16 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	PCI Express X16 PCI Express X8 Serial 3 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eH
Host Bus Adapter:	HP Smart Array P220i , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Fujitsu MBE2147RC , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.1.0-33.2

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Disk configuration: HDD two disks configured as RAID 0 and M.2 boot device with two SSDs configured as a RAID 1 device. The "Device model" selected for the SLES guest virtual network adapter during testing was e1000, instead of the default virtio.
Kdump (SLE15): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=233M,high crashkernel=132M,low using YaST.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows Server 2016 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.5.exe), the virtio network drivers were used during testing.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 15 guest. One of the integrated Intel Ethernet Connection X722 for 1GbE adapters was used in this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200eH
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 08-Feb-2011	Driver Size: 174712
	Checksum: 34ada57de469915d1dc3833aa1f21893

HP FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 554FLB FlexibleLOM
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: be2net.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 74672
	Checksum: cce79be9ce77ce1bda1691b36e8bb7c4

HP Smart Array P220i
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: cciss.ko
	Driver Date: 10-Dec-2011	Driver Size: 120668
	Checksum: 3a768ea0b345450af5ac28fb19610cd0

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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