Express5800/R120A-2

Express5800/R120A-2
Network Server
IBM

27 Jan 2014
141103

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Power 15 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 15

Product Description
The Express5800/R120A-2 is a dual-socket compact server that delivers energy expenditure reduction for medium to large businesses, along with greater performance and ease of remote management in a space-saving 2U rack form factor for the continuous operation in business critical environments.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	S10
BIOS/uEFI:	BIOS: 1.0.1C08 (02/17/2009)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor X5570 2.93 GHz
RAM:	12 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express X4 3 PCI Express X8 Serial 4 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® Millennium G200 SE
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic MegaRAID® SAS 8708EM2 , Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel Integrated 82801JIB ICH10 , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	3 Hitachi GST Ultrastar hus153014vls300 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	Teac DV-28SL , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.2.0-5.10

Config Notes

Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were changed based on the content in the following knowledge-base article for ppc64le: https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=3374462
Headless configuration - no graphics adapter. System configured using IBM remote Hardware Management Console (HMC) for graphics, keyboard and mouse.
Install: The SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server install was performed using a network install method.
CPU: This system is 2 CPU socket configuration with 24 core dual chip module per socket, totalling 48 cores. The Power10 3.9 GHz (Max) DCM CPUs tested each have 24 cores and with SMT8 totalling 384 vCPU threads.
Power management: The System/Processor dynamic CPU frequency scaling functionality in SLES is not supported on Power10 (PowerVM) as this functionality is provided by the Power10 hardware itself.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® Millennium G200 SE
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 13-May-2013	Driver Size: 204964
	Checksum: 12efb07097320f259e3570652cf129da
	Driver Version: 1.4.11

Intel 82576EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 208935
	Checksum: 637395cb2ea09e567670b1cff0c4a31a
	Driver Version: 4.1.2-k

LSI Logic MegaRAID® SAS 8708EM2
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 94071
	Checksum: ebe0dac982da7dda6e42ffdc95e7da0c
	Driver Version: 06.506.00.00-rc1

Intel Integrated 82801JIB ICH10
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 48215
	Checksum: 5ebd17f69bbf0af9ccfca8f23d7c0762
	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:
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