UCS C420 M3

UCS C420 M3
Network Server
Lenovo

27 Oct 2014
142167

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 12

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 11	Arch: 32	Mode: Paravirtualized
Windows 2003 Server R2
	SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows 2003	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
The Cisco UCS C420 M3 Rack Server is a high-density, enterprise-class, four-socket, two-rack-unit (2RU) rack server designed for compute, I/O, storage, and memory-intensive standalone and virtualized applications. The addition of the Intel® Xeon® processor E5-4600 product family delivers an optimal combination of performance, flexibility, and efficiency gains. http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/servers-unified-computing/ucs-c420-m3-rack-server/index.html

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	3.0
BIOS/uEFI:	C420M3.1.5.7a.0.06
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-4620 2.20 GHz
RAM:	192 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 PCI Express X8 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® Millennium G200 SE
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 9271-8i , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Toshiba MBF2600RC , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.3.0-94.2

Config Notes

Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=190M,high crashkernel=142M,low" using YaST.
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 0.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.3.exe), the virtio network drivers were used during testing. SR-IOV/PCI Pass-through: Current system configuration does not support network SR-IOV or network PCI pass-through.

Referenced Bulletins
145048

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® Millennium G200 SE
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: drm.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 508623
	Checksum: 7051a1dc2af9f115dc89611460738634

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 17-Jul-2014	Driver Size: 124048
	Checksum: bed8e78793d30a8ec1b55a623d5647a3
	Driver Version: 1.6.3

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 98407
	Checksum: a860088c6d3673ee89ea8d56a33e3b68

Intel Ethernet Controller I350-AM4 (Quad Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 316863
	Checksum: 590fec6a467a98966b493b6071801c99
	Driver Version: 5.0.5-k

LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 9271-8i
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 167607
	Checksum: 9271ed61c05dd7cc9edb3bdd802cedc6
	Driver Version: 06.803.01.00-rc1

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:

Lenovo
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
support.lenovo.com

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