ProLiant DL360 Gen9 2.3 GHz Eighteen Core

ProLiant DL360 Gen9 2.3 GHz Eighteen Core
Network Server
IBM

15 Sep 2014
141884

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 11	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 11	Arch: 32pae	Mode: Fully Virtualized
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:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	Gen9
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: P89-07/11/2014
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2699 v3 2.30 GHz
RAM:	80 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	5 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X16 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eH
Host Bus Adapter:	HP Smart Array P440ar , Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel C612 Chipset (DH82029 PCH) , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	HP EG0900FBLSK 900GB 10K SAS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	HP DU-8A5SH , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.2.0-5.10

Config Notes

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.
SUSE Driver Kit: The ibm_x6-sle11sp3-x86_64 driver kit is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver kit was installed during the SLES install process as an initial bootable iso image. This driver must be downloaded and installed before the SLES install. To obtain the driver go to: http://drivers.suse.com/ibm/IBM-X6/sle11-sp3/install-readme.html.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.

Referenced Bulletins
141558

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 331i Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 04-Jun-2014	Driver Size: 243103
	Checksum: 8eebaa04a25c1502787fe17d6bb05300
	Driver Version: 3.129

HP Smart Array P440ar
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: hpsa.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2014	Driver Size: 149582
	Checksum: 90bdc2d7eb92e566a2accec1091cf149
	Driver Version: 3.4.6-165

Intel C612 Chipset (DH82029 PCH)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 04-Jun-2014	Driver Size: 57383
	Checksum: 48c2e7dcca1f31450b28711e51b5a055
	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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ProLiant DL360 Gen9 2.3 GHz Eighteen Core - Yes Bulletin 141884 | SUSE