ProLiant DL380 Gen9 2.4 GHz Twenty-Two Core

ProLiant DL380 Gen9 2.4 GHz Twenty-Two Core
Network Server
IBM

07 Jul 2017
145672

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server for z Systems 15 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 15

Product Description
https://www.hpe.com/us/en/product-catalog/servers/proliant-servers.hits-12.html

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	Gen9
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 2.40 (02/17/2017)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2699A v4 2.40 GHz
RAM:	3072 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	6 USB Ports Serial 4 PCI Express X8 2 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eH
Host Bus Adapter:	HP Smart Array P440ar Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	HPE 1.2TB SAS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	HP 9.5mm SATA DVD-RW JackBlack G9 Optical Drive 726537-B21 , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.6.0-53.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard Drive Configuration: RAID 5 w/hot swap drive. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=10G dom0_max_vcpus=4.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=119M,high crashkernel=122M,low" using YaST.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from https://download.suse.com/ (VMDP-WIN-2.3.exe).
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where one of the host network adapters was given to the one of the SLES 12 guests. The IBM x3750 M4 Dual port 10 GB SFP+ Ethernet adapter was used for this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200eH
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 25-Oct-2016	Driver Size: 95983
	Checksum: 47ef1d90155625b73d3d4281ce034251

HP 1Gb Ethernet 4-port 331i Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 25-Oct-2016	Driver Size: 249959
	Checksum: 1f949a3ea6e1f0146eed254abd2eda5c
	Driver Version: 3.137

HP Smart Array P440ar Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: hpsa.ko
	Driver Date: 26-Oct-2016	Driver Size: 172863
	Checksum: 2b0b44a8aeebb720e73e59d93df6deaa
	Driver Version: 3.4.16-0

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
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
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