ProLiant ML350 Gen10 2.5 GHz Twenty-Eight Core

ProLiant ML350 Gen10 2.5 GHz Twenty-Eight Core
Network Server
IBM

16 Jul 2018
146765

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Power 12

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
Windows Server 2012 R2
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Tower
Mother Board Revision:	Gen10
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: U41 (02/14/2018)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8180M Processor 2.50 GHz
RAM:	HOST: 128 GB, MAX VM: 104 GB, Multiple VM's: 32 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	6 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X4 4 PCI Express X16 2 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox Graphics Inc. G200eH3
Host Bus Adapter:	HPE Smart Array P408i-a SR Gen10 Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	4 HPE 2.4TB SAS 12G Enterprise 10K SFF , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.1.0-77.1

Config Notes

Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were changed based on the content in the following knowledge-base article: http://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=3374462.
Power management: The System/Processor dynamic CPU frequency scaling functionality in SLES is not supported on POWER9 with PowerVM as this functionality is provided by the POWER9 with PowerVM hardware its-self.
Headless configuration - no graphics adapter. System configured using IBM remote Hardware Management Console (HMC) for graphics, keyboard and mouse.
Install: The SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server install was performed using a network install method.
Latest maintenance kernel 4.4.114-94.14-default.ppc64le is installed for basic POWER9 support from https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=MiaxOdQDFSA~

Referenced Bulletins
146645

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox Graphics Inc. G200eH3
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 02-May-2018	Driver Size: 105288
	Checksum: 33744b54c1e2edb1c64d9a288005bdc8

HPE Ethernet 1Gb 4-port 369i Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: i40e.ko
	Driver Date: 02-May-2018	Driver Size: 672856
	Checksum: 9f09384fe299da52ed29d20586beb109
	Driver Version: 2.1.14-k

HPE Ethernet 10Gb 2-port 530T Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2x.ko
	Driver Date: 03-May-2018	Driver Size: 1345896
	Checksum: 70ff6cca7691da85ae250757064c511d
	Driver Version: 1.712.30-0

HPE Smart Array P408i-a SR Gen10 Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: smartpqi.ko
	Driver Date: 03-May-2018	Driver Size: 152696
	Checksum: 6c0645d27f694d928e01e6f88733792d
	Driver Version: 1.1.2-126

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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