SG®I Rackable® C2112-GP2

SG®I Rackable® C2112-GP2
Network Server
IBM

01 Apr 2016
144283

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

3 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SLES 11	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
SGI® Rackable® standard-depth, rack mount servers and clusters deliver top value and performance. Their winning combination of the latest Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v4 family architecture and SGI’s expertise in designing and delivering the most advanced performance computing systems available makes this possible. The powerful SGI® Rackable® C2112-GP2 is an ideal cluster head node or standalone departmental server.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	1.02A
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 2.0 (12/17/2015)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2699 v4 2.20 GHz
RAM:	192 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	Serial 2 USB Ports 6 PCI Express X8 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2400
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic SAS 3008 , Serial SCSI (SAS) LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS-3 3108 , Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel C612 Chipset (DH82029 PCH) , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	5 Seagate® ST3300655SS Cheetah 15K.5 , Serial SCSI (SAS) Western Digital WD1003FBYX-1 , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.5.0-20.4

Config Notes

VM Driver Pack: All 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), using the virtio driver for testing.
Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
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.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where two of the host network adapters were given, one each, to a SLES 11 SP3 i586 and SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guests. Two of the Intel® I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapters were used for this testing.
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.

Referenced Bulletins
141626

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST2400
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: swrast_dri.so
	Driver Date: 12-May-2015	Driver Size: 14588208
	Checksum: e32ce0677419b22ed04c0a096fd98546

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast_drv.so
	Driver Date: 17-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 134960
	Checksum: 01ba3e8b5ba7aff90b4e5d72d1a05efe
	Driver Version: 1.0.1

Intel Ethernet Controller I350-AM4 (Quad Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 334639
	Checksum: 9d13a78672ff61d57ef1b462ada1ae55
	Driver Version: 5.2.15-k

LSI Logic SAS 3008
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mpt3sas.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 356759
	Checksum: c3c5188ad5c9175a4878cd6aff2b4aa1
	Driver Version: 09.100.00.00

LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS-3 3108
Intel C612 Chipset (DH82029 PCH)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 58775
	Checksum: 7a0c250f60b9ac6b9684c7be9f36b03e
	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
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