Express5800/R120h-2E

Express5800/R120h-2E
Network Server
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

30 Jan 2018
146548

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 10

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SUSE SLES 11	Arch: 32pae	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SUSE SLES 11	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
Windows Server 2012 R2
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
For more information please visit https://www.nec.com/

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	Gen10
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 1.20 (08/18/2017)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8164 Processor 2.00 GHz
RAM:	Host: 128 GB, Max VM: 104 GB, Multiple SLES VMs: 4 GB each
Ports and Bus Types:	PCI Express X16 4 USB Ports Serial 3 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eH
Host Bus Adapter:	HPE Smart Array P408i-a SR Gen10 Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel C622 Chipset , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	HPE 2TB SAS 12G Midline 7.2K SFF HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	HP 9.5mm SATA DVD-RW JackBlack G9 Optical Drive , 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. Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: separate RAID 0. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=12G dom0_max_vcpus=8.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=210M,high crashkernel=162M,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 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 Intel X540 ML2 Dual Port 10GbaseT adapters was used in this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200eH
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: libfb.so
	Driver Date: 26-May-2015	Driver Size: 138752
	Checksum: ed7cf2d9c60c06fca06019e821c4b4eb
	Driver Version: 1.0.0

HPE Ethernet 1Gb 2-port 368i Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: i40e.ko
	Driver Date: 19-May-2017	Driver Size: 6506753
	Checksum: 80eb9b69a4019ce7356ef677495499f3
	Driver Version: 2.0.23

HPE Smart Array P408i-a SR Gen10 Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: aacraid.ko
	Driver Date: 31-Mar-2017	Driver Size: 161199
	Checksum: 3447bb74d92dc937a06026e0757c5917
	Driver Version: 1.2-0[30300]-ms

	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: smartpqi.ko
	Driver Date: 19-May-2017	Driver Size: 121862
	Checksum: 614654f5ac3914f81cf5e5b368c94adb
	Driver Version: 1.0.4-100

Intel C622 Chipset
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 31-Mar-2017	Driver Size: 60375
	Checksum: 3faa30ce4daa49f046f234be98d5b1e4
	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:

Sun Microsystems, Inc.
4150 Network Circle
Santa Clara , CA 95054

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