ProLiant BL460c Gen9 2.2 GHz Twenty-Two Core

ProLiant BL460c Gen9 2.2 GHz Twenty-Two Core
Network Server
IBM

01 Apr 2016
144329

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 10

Product Description
For more information please visit http://www.hp.com/go/proliantlinux

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	Gen9
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: I36 12/28/2015
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2699 v4 2.20 GHz
RAM:	768 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	3 USB Ports Serial 2 PCI Express X8 2 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eH
Host Bus Adapter:	HPE Smart Array P244br Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	HP 500GB SAS Model MM0500FAMYT , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.5.0-20.4

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 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 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_drv.so
	Driver Date: 18-May-2015	Driver Size: 190720
	Checksum: eeec94d7ef85cad092007144321a8b30
	Driver Version: 1.4.11

HP FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 536FLB FlexibleLOM
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2x.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 1035919
	Checksum: 9fb169e658f862c29c7b6ba13948d3e5
	Driver Version: 1.710.51-0

HPE Smart Array P244br Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: hpsa.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 142991
	Checksum: 626a33262cf0d3ab06dbb1d68ee086b6
	Driver Version: 3.4.8-1

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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