PowerEdge R640

PowerEdge R640
Network Server
IBM

13 Dec 2017
146390

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86 with XEN Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 10

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SUSE SLES 11	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
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
Please visit www.dell.com for detail information.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	A00
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 1.2.11 (10/19/2017)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8180M Processor 2.50 GHz
RAM:	Host Platform: 3072 GB, 64-bit VM Guests: 991 GB, Single Max VM 64-bit Guest Tested Memory: 2942 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports 3 PCI Express X16 8 PCI Express X4
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eW3
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel C621 Chipset , Serial ATA (SATA) Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H730P Mini , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	HGST HUH728080AL5204 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	LG GU90N , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.7.0-25.2

Config Notes

The configuration has four E57A2 Blades connected with a 4-Blade SMP Connector.
Intel Ethernet Server Adapter X520-2(Dual Port) driver "ixgbe.ko" used during testing is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver package name is "intel-ixgbe-4.3.13-2.1.x86_64.rpm" and "intel-ixgbe-kmp-default-4.3.13_3.0.101_63-2.1.x86_64.rpm" and was installed after the SLES11SP4 install. To obtain the driver, access https://drivers.suse.com/driver-process/pub/update/Intel/sle11sp4/common/x86_64
Kernel update: SLES11 SP4 kernel update 12480 (3.0.101-71.1.x86-64) is required and was installed during certification testing. This updated kernel includes the lpfc.ko and igb.ko drivers that were used during testing.
This is a SAN boot only system.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200eW3
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 25-Oct-2016	Driver Size: 95983
	Checksum: 47ef1d90155625b73d3d4281ce034251

Intel I350c rNDC GbE 4 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

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

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

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:
www.ibm.com

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PowerEdge R640 - Yes Bulletin 146390 | SUSE