ProLiant DL385p Gen8 2.8GHz Sixteen Core

ProLiant DL385p Gen8 2.8GHz Sixteen Core
Network Server
Lenovo

11 Dec 2012
138766

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 12

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

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	Gen8
BIOS/uEFI:	A28 8/14/2012
CPU:	2 AMD Sixteen-Core Opteron™ 6386 SE 2.80 GHz
RAM:	768 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express X8 PCI Express X4 Serial 8 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eH
Host Bus Adapter:	AMD SP5100 , Serial ATA (SATA) HP Smart Array P420i Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	HP MM1000FBFVR 1TB SAS 2.5'' , Serial SCSI (SAS) 3 Seagate® ST973452SS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	HP DV_W28S_W , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.1.0-33.2

Config Notes

Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0. Xen Hypervisor: it is required that the hypervisor is booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=12G dom0_max_vcpus=8.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 11 FV guest. One of the Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T2 adapters was used in this testing.
Installation Kit: The lenovo_servers_thinksystem-sle12sp2-x86_64-1.0.iso installation kit is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. This installation kit must be downloaded and used to start the SLES installation. To obtain the installation kit go to: https://drivers.suse.com/lenovo/Lenovo-ThinkSystem/sle-12-sp2-x86_64/1.0/.
Kdump (SLE12SP2): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=165M,high crashkernel=122M,low using YaST.

Referenced Bulletins
145832

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200eH
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 04-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 190688
	Checksum: 9ec99a5b6850be782df01c0b7663d67f

HP 1Gb Ethernet 4-port 331FLR Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 223384
	Checksum: 76a70bfcec58d2d10d9514f1d2ec4a86

AMD SP5100
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 52464
	Checksum: 8e7f557e5cfe98455deef90148417821

HP Smart Array P420i Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: hpsa.ko
	Driver Date: 16-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 89712
	Checksum: 78c36bed4feaa2464620b88646e6780c

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

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ProLiant DL385p Gen8 2.8GHz Sixteen Core - Yes Bulletin 138766 | SUSE