ProLiant DL580 Gen9 2.50 GHz Eighteen Core

ProLiant DL580 Gen9 2.50 GHz Eighteen Core
Network Server
IBM

01 Nov 2015
143682

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

Windows Server 2008
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized	SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2008
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86
	Arch: 32pae	Mode: Fully Virtualized	SP: 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: 1.0 (03/13/2015)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-8890 v3 2.50 GHz
RAM:	512 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 PCI Express X8 5 PCI Express X16 Serial 9 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eH
Host Bus Adapter:	HP P830i SmartArray Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	5 HP EG0600FBDBU 600GB SAS 2.5 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.3.0-113.3

Config Notes

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 0, RAID 1 and RAID 5.
Maintenance update: SLES 12 kernel update 136 is required and was installed during certification testing.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from https://download.suse.com/ (VMDP-WIN-2.2.exe).
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to one of the SLES 12 FV guests. One of the Intel I350-T4 ML2 GbE adapters was used in this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200eH
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 97711
	Checksum: 0aa1fb610e038786b32b41ad30a9aa41

HP Ethernet 1Gb 2-port 361T Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 319895
	Checksum: 5dc831ebe3c0bfe03571c08dedd554dc
	Driver Version: 5.0.5-k

HP FlexibleLOM 1Gb 4-port 331FLR Ethernet Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 255327
	Checksum: e18cc27309231e8a0bb40c95f18a30f2
	Driver Version: 3.136

HP P830i SmartArray Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: hpsa.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Oct-2014	Driver Size: 149783
	Checksum: 359dc3fe04b3cd84e8e2a127eba3dfc9
	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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