ProLiant DL580 Gen8 2.80 GHz Fifteen Core

ProLiant DL580 Gen8 2.80 GHz Fifteen Core
Network Server
IBM

20 Feb 2014
141201

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	G8
BIOS/uEFI:	P79 01/24/2014
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-4890 v2 2.80 GHz
RAM:	3072 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	8 USB Ports Serial 5 PCI Express X16 4 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eH
Host Bus Adapter:	HP P830i SmartArray Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	HP EG0900FBLSK 900GB 10K SAS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	Partner Certified 7.2.0

Config Notes

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: two separate RAID 0 devices. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with and requires the following additional load parameters: dom0_mem=16G dom0_max_vcpus=4 (parameters are required, values can be changed).
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 12 FV guest. One of the Intel X540 ML2 Dual Port 10GbaseT adapters was used in this testing.

Referenced Bulletins
147341

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200eH
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 30-Mar-2013	Driver Size: 190720
	Checksum: cbbe7ba695cb37835f3c7d4e79ec43c5
	Driver Version: 1.4.11

HP 1Gb Ethernet 4-port 331FLR Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 242863
	Checksum: f89cba187ed6394b55c6f3545b981f06
	Driver Version: 3.129

HP P830i SmartArray Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: hpsa.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 106383
	Checksum: 35b99058e190bf6f22cf20cf895fc598
	Driver Version: 3.2.0

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
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