ProLiant XL250a Gen9 (Apollo 6000) 2.20 GHz Twenty-Two Core

ProLiant XL250a Gen9 (Apollo 6000) 2.20 GHz Twenty-Two Core
Network Server
Lenovo

14 Jun 2016
144680

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64

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: U13 12/27/2015
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2699 v4 2.20 GHz
RAM:	2048 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 USB Ports Serial 3 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eH
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel C612 Chipset (DH82029 PCH) , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	HP MM1000FBFVR 1TB SAS 2.5'' , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.5.0-20.4

Config Notes

Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
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), and the virtio drivers was used.
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 to one SLES 11 SP3 i586 guest and one SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. Two adapters (ports) from the Intel® I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapter was used during 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
141557

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200eH
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 97711
	Checksum: 0aa1fb610e038786b32b41ad30a9aa41

HP 1Gb Ethernet 4-port 331FLR Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 255327
	Checksum: e18cc27309231e8a0bb40c95f18a30f2
	Driver Version: 3.136

Intel C612 Chipset (DH82029 PCH)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 62335
	Checksum: 8992c5358b677d4a7df780cf01807613
	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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