ProLiant XL230k Gen10 (Apollo K6000) 2.10 GHz Twenty-Eight Core

ProLiant XL230k Gen10 (Apollo K6000) 2.10 GHz Twenty-Eight Core
Network Server
Lenovo

13 Jul 2017
145733

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 12

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

2 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 2 for SUSE SLES 12	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
Windows Server 2012 R2
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	Gen10
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 1.0 (06/02/2017)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8176 Processor 2.10 GHz
RAM:	128 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	3 USB Ports Serial 2 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eH
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel C621 Chipset , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	HP MM1000GBKAL , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.6.0-53.1

Config Notes

Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=223M,high crashkernel=142M,low" using YaST.
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 1. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=16G dom0_max_vcpus=8.
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 http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.3.exe).
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 12 FV guest. One of the Emulex VFA5 ML2 Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ adapters was used in this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200eH
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: modesetting_drv.so
	Driver Date: 15-Oct-2016	Driver Size: 73936
	Checksum: 9543c0db503bf1f52b6304492e605509
	Driver Version: 1.18.3

HPE Ethernet 10Gb 2-port 568i Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: i40e.ko
	Driver Date: 26-Oct-2016	Driver Size: 471479
	Checksum: 355fc516cb68a42c0d41e284123a55b3
	Driver Version: 1.4.25-k

Intel C621 Chipset
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 25-Oct-2016	Driver Size: 72895
	Checksum: f0ad0f11072e317bc80570a7483343e9
	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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