PowerEdge M630

PowerEdge M630
Network Server
Lenovo

01 Apr 2016
144307

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM

Product Description
The PowerEdge M630 is supported on Dell PowerEdge VRTX. The Dell Shared PERC 8 card is located between the storage array and the power distribution board on the VRTX planar. The Dell Shared PERC 8 slot routes SAS to the nearby planar miniSAS connectors, which are used to internally cable SAS from the PERC to the SAS expander cards in the storage array. Please visit www.dell.com/vrtx for detail information.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	A01
BIOS/uEFI:	BIOS: 2.0.1 (02/16/2016)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2698 v4 2.20 GHz
RAM:	1536 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 USB Ports 9 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR
Host Bus Adapter:	Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H730P Mini , Serial SCSI (SAS) 2 Dell Shared PERC 8 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® ST9500620SS 500GB SAS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS) Toshiba MK2001TRKB , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	HLDS GU60N , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.5.0-20.4

Config Notes

Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader configuration. Hard Disk Configuration: JBOD
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 12 x86_64 guest. One of the embedded Four-Port 10GB Virtual Fabric Ethernet LOM adapters was used in this testing.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 drivers are available from https://download.suse.com/ (VMDP-WIN-2.2.exe).
Serial/USB/VGA port(s): provided through KVM connector console breakout cable which supplies one RS232 serial port, one VGA port and two USB ports. The system also has one internal USB port. System was scaled up to 4-socket by joining two x880 X6 with 4S scalability connector.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 97943
	Checksum: a9ff8d5c05122cb81c250915190b6b5d

Broadcom® NetXtreme BCM5720 (Quad Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 257119
	Checksum: 68b956cb5c8bb96a07d2dd38941a72f7
	Driver Version: 3.137

Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H730P Mini
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 193671
	Checksum: 231400c0c6871290e279dba7766c2fd7
	Driver Version: 06.807.10.00-rc1

2 Dell Shared PERC 8
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 193671
	Checksum: 231400c0c6871290e279dba7766c2fd7
	Driver Version: 06.807.10.00-rc1

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:

Lenovo
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
support.lenovo.com

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PowerEdge M630 - Yes Bulletin 144307 | SUSE