Z840 Workstation / Intel® Xeon® E5-2603 v3 1.60 GHz

Z840 Workstation / Intel® Xeon® E5-2603 v3 1.60 GHz
Workstation
IBM

06 Mar 2015
142925

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

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

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Mini Tower
Mother Board Revision:	1.0
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 1.21 (11/21/2014)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2603 v3 1.60 GHz
RAM:	16 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	PCI Express X4 2 PCI Express X8 3 PCI Express X16 PCI Express X1 Serial 10 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	NVIDIA® Quadro® K420
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic LSISAS 2308 SAS Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel C612 Chipset (DH82029 PCH) , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	Western Digital WD10EZEX-60M , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	HP DVDRAM GUB0N , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.3.0-113.3

Config Notes

Install: System installed using PXE network install; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Disk configuration: HDD two disk RAID 0 and M.2 boot device with two SSD configured as RAID 0. The "Device model" selected for the SLES guest virtual network adapter during testing was e1000, instead of the default virtio.
Kdump (SLE15): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=231M,high crashkernel=122M,low using YaST.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows Server 2016 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.5.exe), the virtio network drivers were used during testing.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 15 FV guest. One of the internal X550-T2 10GBase-T adapters was used in this testing.

Referenced Bulletins
146837

Adapters and Drivers


NVIDIA® Quadro® K420
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: nouveau.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Oct-2014	Driver Size: 1597423
	Checksum: bea877fb010a30874483ed7858f01b2d

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: nvidia.ko
	Driver Date: 10-Feb-2015	Driver Size: 19357580
	Checksum: 7c6e51b6574fb2d473bae0b80a9719ef
	Driver Version: 340.24

Intel Ethernet Controller I210-AT
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 319895
	Checksum: 5dc831ebe3c0bfe03571c08dedd554dc
	Driver Version: 5.0.5-k

Intel Ethernet Connection I218-LM
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: e1000e.ko
	Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 420135
	Checksum: a1f409c5bddc83725e587cc3e5abd324
	Driver Version: 2.3.2-k

LSI Logic LSISAS 2308 SAS Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mpt2sas.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Oct-2014	Driver Size: 353335
	Checksum: 4607b47693e001c4cd8e1dc98fd88c11
	Driver Version: 18.100.00.00

Intel C612 Chipset (DH82029 PCH)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 62335
	Checksum: 8992c5358b677d4a7df780cf01807613
	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
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Z840 Workstation / Intel® Xeon® E5-2603 v3 1.60 GHz - Yes Bulletin 142925 | SUSE