Bull Escala M6-800

Bull Escala M6-800
Network Server
SGI

23 Feb 2016
144111

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

Product Description
Escala modular servers: Power and performance at the service of your business.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	1
BIOS/uEFI:	1
CPU:	80 IBM POWER8 4.19 GHz
RAM:	2000 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	16 PCI Express X16
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM Obsidian-E PCI-E SCSI Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	6 Seagate® Savvio® 15K.3, 2.5-inch 300 GB 15K 6Gb/s SAS (ST9300653SS) , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.2.0-5.10

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard disk configuration: RAID 1.
Kdump (SLE12SP3): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=199M,high crashkernel=142M,low using YaST.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows Server 2016 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.4.exe).
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where one of the host network adapters was given to the SLES 12 SP3 FV guest. One of the internal Ethernet Controller I210-AT adapters was used for this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Broadcom® BCM5719 X4 PCI Express® Quad-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 285735
	Checksum: bd6cf819c0a7b684907628138ea06f1d
	Driver Version: 3.129

IBM Obsidian-E PCI-E SCSI Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ipr.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 213287
	Checksum: 3bce48a5eab10a3dc648f147006c87b9
	Driver Version: 2.6.0

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:

SGI
46600 Landing Parkway
Fremont , CA 94538
Voice: 650-960-1980
Website: http://www.sgi.com

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