Z420 Workstation / Intel® Xeon® E5-1607 3.00 GHz

Z420 Workstation / Intel® Xeon® E5-1607 3.00 GHz
Workstation
IBM

21 Sep 2013
140305

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Mini Tower
Mother Board Revision:	1.0
BIOS/uEFI:	J61 v03.18
CPU:	Intel Xeon® Processor E5-1607 3.00 GHz
RAM:	6 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 1394 Firewire 9 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X8 2 PCI Express X16 32-Bit PCI PCI Express X4 Serial
Video Adapter:	NVIDIA® Quadro® 2000
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel BD82C602 PCH , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	Western Digital WD5000AAKX-6 , Serial ATA (SATA)
CD/DVD:	Hitachi GST DVD-RAM GH60L , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.2.0-5.10

Config Notes

Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=264M,high crashkernel=172M,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-2.4.exe).
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 12 SP3 FV guest. One of the integrated I350-T4 ML2 GbE adapters was used in this testing.
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Tested as a 1-node scalable partition with 4 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 1. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with and requires the following additional load parameters: dom0_mem=16G dom0_max_vcpus=16 (parameters are required, the specific values can be changed).

Referenced Bulletins
146126

Adapters and Drivers


NVIDIA® Quadro® 2000
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: nvidia.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2013	Driver Size: 16636731
	Checksum: b4b4be57d9bf5745969b3151931ae1bb
	Driver Version: 319.32

Intel 82579LM Gigabit Ethernet PHY (single port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: e1000e.ko
	Driver Date: 19-Jul-2013	Driver Size: 383668
	Checksum: bc381bd0b3d5dce33166377383e0327c
	Driver Version: 2.1.4-k

Intel BD82C602 PCH
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 19-Jul-2013	Driver Size: 58332
	Checksum: 62e8ba2252a3953aad8e54869a5dc6f9
	Driver Version: 3.0

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:

IBM
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
www.ibm.com

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Z420 Workstation / Intel® Xeon® E5-1607 3.00 GHz - Yes Bulletin 140305 | SUSE