ProLiant BL685c G7 2.5GHz Sixteen Core

ProLiant BL685c G7 2.5GHz Sixteen Core
Network Server
Lenovo Group Limited

11 Dec 2012
138776

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 11

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:	G7
BIOS/uEFI:	A20_08152012
CPU:	AMD Sixteen-Core Opteron™ 6380 2.50 GHz
RAM:	16 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 300GB SAS 10K , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.1.0-33.2

Config Notes

System certification testing was performed with a SLES 15 SP7 64-bit virtual machine installed on UEFI firmware with Secure Boot enabled and configured with up to 768 CPUs and 24560 GB of memory.
Broadcom recommends using the Open VM Tools redistributed by operating system vendors. For additional information, see knowledge base article 313456 at https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?articleNumber=313456.
Broadcom recommends using the paravirtual drivers contributed upstream and redistributed by operating system vendors. For additional information, see knowledge base article 306577 at https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?articleNumber=306577.
The VMware Memory Ballooning driver included in SLES 15 SP7 is auto loaded to improve the virtual machine memory performance.
VMware guest OS installation information can be found at: http://partnerweb.vmware.com/GOSIG/SLE_15.html.

Adapters and Drivers


ATI ES1000
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: radeon_drv.so
	Driver Date: 17-Mar-2008	Driver Size: 283804
	Checksum: 54e340ac765f3dcceb97d352ece9f560

2 HP NC551i Dual Port 10GB Network Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: be2net.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 74672
	Checksum: cce79be9ce77ce1bda1691b36e8bb7c4

HP Smart Array P410i Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: cciss.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 111396
	Checksum: 59306070e2a323fb4bb733c003b95d7d

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 Group Limited
P.R.China
Bei Jing
Haidian District,Shangdi Chuangye Road 6#
Bei Jing , N/A 100085
CHINA

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