SGI® Rackable® C2108-GP5

SGI® Rackable® C2108-GP5
Network Server
IBM

16 Jan 2015
142629

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM

Product Description
SGI® Rackable® standard-depth, rack mount servers and clusters deliver top value and performance. Their winning combination of the latest Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v3 family architecture and SGI’s expertise in designing and delivering the most advanced performance computing systems available makes this possible. The powerful SGI® Rackable® C2108-GP5 is available with unique accelerator solutions and is an ideal cluster head node or standalone departmental server.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	1.0
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: F02 (11/28/2014)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2699 v3 2.30 GHz
RAM:	192 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	Serial 2 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X8 8 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2400
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel C612 Chipset (DH82029 PCH) , Serial ATA (SATA) LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 2208 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Seagate® ST9300603SS Savvio® 10K.3 6-Gb/s 300-GB , Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel SSD 320 Series (SSDSA2CW120G301, 120GB, 2.5in SATA 3Gb/s, 25nm, MLC, 9.5mm) , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.3.0-113.3

Config Notes

Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 0
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 12 x86_64 guest. One of the embedded Intel® Ethernet Controller I350-AM4 (Quad Port) adapters was used in this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST2400
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast
	Driver Date: 29-May-2013	Driver Size: 14588208
	Checksum: b04453e653cab45eefe58ac419ccacb3

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast
	Driver Date: 29-May-2013	Driver Size: 96096
	Checksum: 41733d0f905440b2b69759ee4d3dda05
	Driver Version: 0.92.2

Intel 82599EB 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbe.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 349319
	Checksum: 6b985656ab852761e6d44809093f0150
	Driver Version: 3.11.33-k

Intel C612 Chipset (DH82029 PCH)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 58287
	Checksum: 473c4648eb91631c32be9d18fb2e85ad
	Driver Version: 3.0

LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 2208
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 128775
	Checksum: 36c2f0e7dab4f4c97ea2e019d1fb44da
	Driver Version: 06.506.00.00-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:

IBM
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