ProLiant BL685c G7 2.5GHz Sixteen Core

ProLiant BL685c G7 2.5GHz Sixteen Core
Network Server
Hewlett-Packard Company

11 Dec 2012
138774

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 10

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SLES 10	Arch: 64	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:	G7
BIOS/uEFI:	A20_08152012
CPU:	AMD Sixteen-Core Opteron™ 6380 2.50 GHz
RAM:	64 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	3 USB Ports Serial 3 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	ATI ES1000
Host Bus Adapter:	HP Smart Array P410i Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	HP DB1000BABFF 1TB 7200rpm SAS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.1.0-33.2

Config Notes

Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8588 and kernel update 8827 (x86-64) are required and were installed during certification testing.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
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 FV 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).
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=10G dom0_max_vcpus=10.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where one of the host network adapters was given to one of the SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guests. One adapter in the embedded I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE was used during this testing.

Referenced Bulletins
141274

Adapters and Drivers


ATI ES1000
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: radeon_drv.so
	Driver Date: 22-Apr-2008	Driver Size: 304640
	Checksum: 4532b0e93d2ab5a98ae54beefd43e51d

2 HP NC551i Dual Port 10GB Network Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: be2net.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 82568
	Checksum: 9a9885dd44dc6c6469e62adb0b83c1d6

HP Smart Array P410i Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: cciss.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 123832
	Checksum: 40858d2206d2cea7095b82a4bba79082

The term SUSE "YES" Enterprise 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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