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| PowerEdge M640
Network Server
Hitachi, Ltd. | 26 Sep 2017
145987 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
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SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 |
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SP:
Service Pack 4 for SUSE SLES 11 |
Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
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SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 |
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SP:
Service Pack 2 for SUSE SLES 12 |
Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
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Windows Server 2012 R2 |
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Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
Product Description
The PowerEdge M640 is supported on both Dell PowerEdge VRTX and PowerEdge M1000e
Blade Chassis. The Dell Shared PERC 8 card is located between the storage array
and the power distribution board on the VRTX planar. The Dell Shared PERC H730P
slot routes SAS to the nearby planar miniSAS connectors, which are used to
internally cable SAS from the PERC to the SAS expander cards in the storage
array. Please visit www.dell.com/vrtx for VRTX detail information. Please visit
www.dell.com for more information.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Blade Module |
| Mother Board Revision: | A00 |
| BIOS/uEFI: | UEFI: 1.0.0 (08/10/2017) |
| CPU: | 2 Intel
Xeon® Platinum 8180 Processor 2.50 GHz |
| RAM: | Host Platform: 1024 GB, 64-bit VM Guests: 320 GB, Single Max VM 64-bit Guest Tested Memory: 852 GB |
| Ports and Bus Types: | 2 USB Ports
2 PCI Express X8
2 PCI Express X4 |
| Video Adapter: | Matrox®
G200eW3 |
| Host Bus Adapter: | Dell
PowerEdge RAID Controller H730P Mini
, Serial SCSI (SAS)
Intel
C621 Chipset
, Serial ATA (SATA) |
| Hard Disk Drive: | 2 Seagate®
Enterprise Performance 15K HDD (ST900MP0136) 900GB SAS
, Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| CD/DVD: | HLDS
GU60N
, Serial ATA (SATA) |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 7.6.0-53.1 |
Config Notes
- This is a SAN boot only system.
- Install: The SLES install was performed using a virtual DVD device.
- The driver "htc-hfcldd" used during testing is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver was installed from the driver update disk(DUD) "dud-htc-hfcldd-4.12.18.3146.iso" and the driver package htc-hfcldd-kmp-default-4.12.18.3146_3.12.28_4-1.sles12.x86_64.rpm. To obtain DUD and the driver package, access to http://www.hitachi.co.jp/products/bladesymphony/download/driver/12346613.html. DUD can be used to install SUSE Linux Enterprise Server(SLES) to the SAN storage, and driver package can be installed after the SLES installation.
- The driver "ixgbevf" used during testing is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver ixgbe is used with the Intel Ethernet Server Adapter X520-2 and the driver package name is "intel-ixgbevf-2.16.4-2.1.x86_64.rpm" and "intel-ixgbevf-kmp-default-2.16.4_k3.12.28_4-2.1.x86_64.rpm". This driver package can be downloaded and installed after the SLES12 install. To obtain the driver go to: http://www.hitachi.co.jp/products/bladesymphony/download/driver/12346835.html
- The maximum CPU cores or threads when hyper threading is enabled which can be allocated from LPAR is 240.
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Referenced Bulletins
144803
Adapters and Drivers
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| Matrox®
G200eW3 |
| | Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: mgag200.ko |
| | Driver Date: 25-Oct-2016 | Driver Size: 95983 |
| | Checksum: 47ef1d90155625b73d3d4281ce034251 |
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| Intel
Gigabit 4P I350 bNDC (Quad Port) |
| | Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: igb.ko |
| | Driver Date: 25-Oct-2016 | Driver Size: 351071 |
| | Checksum: b8dee794a1123732c7ba8475033703e3 |
| | Driver Version: 5.3.0-k |
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| Dell
PowerEdge RAID Controller H730P Mini |
| | Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko |
| | Driver Date: 25-Oct-2016 | Driver Size: 216703 |
| | Checksum: 43d97f95db88b476471065c1667d0589 |
| | Driver Version: 06.810.09.00-rc1 |
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| 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 |
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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:
Hitachi, Ltd.
1 Horiyamashita, Hadano-shi
Kanagawa-ken
259-1392
JAPAN
Voice: +81-463-88-8010
Fax: +81-463-87-7495
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