ProLiant SL4540 Gen8 2.40 GHz Ten Core

ProLiant SL4540 Gen8 2.40 GHz Ten Core
Network Server
IBM

27 Oct 2014
142128

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

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

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 11	Arch: 32pae	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
Windows Server 2008
	SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2008	Arch: 64	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:	Gen8
BIOS/uEFI:	BIOS: P74 (02/10/2014)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2470 v2 2.40 GHz
RAM:	48 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	3 USB Ports Serial 2 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eH
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel BD82X79 PCH , Serial ATA (SATA) HP Smart Array P420i Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	HP MM1000GBKAL , Serial ATA (SATA) HP Logical Volume , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.3.0-97.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed using external USB connected DVD drive; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 1.
Integrated network: only two of the four ethernet adapters/ports on the I350-AM4 quad-port network controller are enabled on this system.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where the network adapter was given to one of the SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guests. One of the embedded Intel® Ethernet Controller I350-AM4 adapters was used in this testing.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200eH
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 97711
	Checksum: 2e18ee51e3395e6f9f9817ef7a9ab886

HP Ethernet 1Gb 2-port 361i
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 319895
	Checksum: e83cf8a401b130ca51657b5f25ab6b1f
	Driver Version: 5.0.5-k

Intel BD82X79 PCH
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 09-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 62335
	Checksum: 4122cf892b7d16858ec5c89c063ad84e
	Driver Version: 3.0

HP Smart Array P420i Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: hpsa.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 149783
	Checksum: c242d4e4c13a9fcd6af2af0b857045b9
	Driver Version: 3.4.4-126

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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