PowerEdge M520

PowerEdge M520
Network Server
Hitachi Data Systems Corporation

01 Jul 2015
143361

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

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

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	A01
BIOS/uEFI:	BIOS: 2.4.2 (02/03/2015)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2470 v2 2.40 GHz
RAM:	384 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR
Host Bus Adapter:	Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H710P , Serial SCSI (SAS) Dell Shared PERC 8 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® ST9900805SS 900GB 6Gbp/s SAS , Serial SCSI (SAS) Toshiba AL13SEB300 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	HLDS GU60N , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.3.0-113.3

Config Notes

PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where the network adapter was given to the SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. An added network adapter, Intel PRO/1000 PT Server Adapter (82572EI GB Ethernet Controller), was used in this testing - this adapter was using the standard SP3 e1000e driver.
Install: System installed using the internal DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 5.
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 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe), and the virtio network drivers were used during testing.
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=5G dom0_max_vcpus=4.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga
	Driver Date: 29-May-2013	Driver Size: 190720
	Checksum: cbbe7ba695cb37835f3c7d4e79ec43c5
	Driver Version: 1.4.11

Broadcom® BCM5720 dual-port PCI Express® GbE Network Interface Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 242863
	Checksum: f89cba187ed6394b55c6f3545b981f06
	Driver Version: 3.129

Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H710P
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 21-Apr-2015	Driver Size: 1939337
	Checksum: a6bf6b323c995cfb531e77865a0626be
	Driver Version: 06.902.57.00

Dell Shared PERC 8
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 21-Apr-2015	Driver Size: 1939337
	Checksum: a6bf6b323c995cfb531e77865a0626be
	Driver Version: 06.902.57.00

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:

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation
2845 Lafayette Street
Santa Clara , CA 95050-2639
Voice: 1-408-970-1000
Fax: 1-408-727-8036
Website: www.hds.com

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PowerEdge M520 - Yes Bulletin 143361 | SUSE