ProLiant XL170r Gen9 2.20 GHz Twenty-Two Core

ProLiant XL170r Gen9 2.20 GHz Twenty-Two Core
Network Server
Lenovo

04 Apr 2016
144357

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 12

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: 2.0 (12/27/2015)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2699 v4 2.20 GHz
RAM:	1024 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports Serial 2 PCI Express X16 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eH
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel X99 Chipset (DHX99 PCH) , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	HP 1TB 6G SATA 7.2K 3.5 , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.5.0-20.4

Config Notes

Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=264M,high crashkernel=172M,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).
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 12 SP3 FV guest. One of the integrated I350-T4 ML2 GbE adapters was used in this testing.
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Tested as a 1-node scalable partition with 4 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 1. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with and requires the following additional load parameters: dom0_mem=16G dom0_max_vcpus=16 (parameters are required, the specific values can be changed).

Referenced Bulletins
146126

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 Ethernet 1Gb 2-port 361i
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 334639
	Checksum: 9d13a78672ff61d57ef1b462ada1ae55
	Driver Version: 5.2.15-k

Intel X99 Chipset (DHX99 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:

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

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