SGI® Altix® UV 1000

SGI® Altix® UV 1000
Network Server
Lenovo

10 Feb 2015
142734

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

Product Description
SGI® Altix® UV offers superior scaling, performance, and efficiency. The combination of large global shared memory and Intel® Xeon® Processor architecture, backed by SGI's industry leading support, provides customers with exceptional value in the SGI® Altix® UV 1000 platform.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Super Server
Mother Board Revision:	1.0
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 0.0 (2013-09-20)
CPU:	16 Intel Xeon® Processor E7520 1.86 GHz
RAM:	128 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	12 PCI Express X8 12 PCI Express X16 3 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200e
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic SAS1064ET PCI-Express Fusion-MPT , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® ST9300603SS Savvio® 10K.3 6-Gb/s 300-GB , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.3.0-113.3

Config Notes

VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe), and the virtio drivers was used.
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.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where two of the host network adapters were given, one each, to a SLES 11 SP3 i586 guest and a SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. Two adapters (ports) from the Intel® I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapter was used during this testing.
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.
Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.

Referenced Bulletins
141668

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200e
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: drm.ko
	Driver Date: 21-Jan-2015	Driver Size: 523199
	Checksum: 7f2ea83053aff0518c8adb7109cca527

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 21-Jan-2015	Driver Size: 97711
	Checksum: c5be0ec5388decfccf2c7cadd969b2ae

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

Intel 82576 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 21-Jan-2015	Driver Size: 319943
	Checksum: ea562c5684c8ce908ffbc2597f1f4b42
	Driver Version: 5.0.5-k

LSI Logic SAS1064ET PCI-Express Fusion-MPT
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mptsas.ko
	Driver Date: 21-Jan-2015	Driver Size: 84615
	Checksum: bbf9e7d0d9b0b55c658fa85737b44166
	Driver Version: 3.04.20

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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