ProLiant BL660c Gen9 2.1 GHz Eighteen Core

ProLiant BL660c Gen9 2.1 GHz Eighteen Core
Network Server
IBM

05 Jun 2015
143266

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 2 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:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	Gen9
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: I38 3/5/2015
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-4669 v3 2.10 GHz
RAM:	128 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports Serial 3 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eH
Host Bus Adapter:	HP Smart Array P246br Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	HP EG0900FBLSK 900GB 10K SAS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.3.0-97.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed using the internal USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
VM Driver Pack: All FV 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).
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.
Hard disk configuration: RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 5.
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.

Referenced Bulletins
141511

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 10Gb 2-port 560FLB Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbe.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 448271
	Checksum: be3032e53ff500cabb90c0c73f5c16c9
	Driver Version: 3.19.1-k

HP Smart Array P246br 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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ProLiant BL660c Gen9 2.1 GHz Eighteen Core - Yes Bulletin 143266 | SUSE