ProLiant XL450 Gen9 (Apollo 4500) 2.30 GHz Sixteen Core

ProLiant XL450 Gen9 (Apollo 4500) 2.30 GHz Sixteen Core
Network Server
IBM

01 Nov 2015
143679

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
For more information please visit http://www.hp.com/go/proliantlinux

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	Gen9
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: U21 05/06/2015
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2698 v3 2.30 GHz
RAM:	1024 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 USB Ports Serial 4 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eH
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel C612 Chipset (DH82029 PCH) , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	HP MM1000GBKAL , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.4.0-30.3

Config Notes

Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
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.
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.

Referenced Bulletins
141541

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200eH
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 30-Mar-2013	Driver Size: 190720
	Checksum: cbbe7ba695cb37835f3c7d4e79ec43c5
	Driver Version: 1.4.11

HP Ethernet 1Gb 2-port 361i
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 04-Jun-2014	Driver Size: 287927
	Checksum: 01501141df52b4f566d1eaa628990280
	Driver Version: 4.1.2-k

Intel C612 Chipset (DH82029 PCH)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 04-Jun-2014	Driver Size: 57383
	Checksum: 48c2e7dcca1f31450b28711e51b5a055
	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
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
www.ibm.com

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