ProLiant XL170r Gen9 (Apollo 2000) 2.30 GHz Eighteen Core

ProLiant XL170r Gen9 (Apollo 2000) 2.30 GHz Eighteen Core
Network Server
Unisys Corporation

01 Nov 2015
143705

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN 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: U14 (12/25/2014)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2699 v3 2.30 GHz
RAM:	512 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X16 PCI Express X8 Serial
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eH
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel C612 Chipset (DH82029 PCH) , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	HP MB0500GCEHE , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.3.0-113.3

Config Notes

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.
Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=20G dom0_max_vcpus=20.
Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8973 and kernel update 9105 (x86-64) are required and were installed during certification testing.
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).
SUSE Driver Kit: The Unisys E7000 7600R G4 Bootable 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: https://drivers.suse.com/unisys/Unisys_E7000_7600R_G4/sle11-sp3-x86_64/1.0/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.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where one of the host network adapters was given to the FV SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. One of the Intel® I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapters was used during this testing.

Referenced Bulletins
141517

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200eH
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga
	Driver Date: 29-May-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:

Unisys Corporation
Unisys Way
Blue Bell , PA 19424
Voice: 408-434-2600
Fax: 408-434-2688
Website: http://www.unisys.com

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ProLiant XL170r Gen9 (Apollo 2000) 2.30 GHz Eighteen Core - Yes Bulletin 143705 | SUSE