Express5800/T120h

Express5800/T120h
Network Server
IBM

11 Dec 2018
147318

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

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

PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where the network adapter was given to the SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. An added network adapter, Intel PRO/1000 PT Server Adapter (82572EI GB Ethernet Controller), was used in this testing - this adapter was using the standard SP3 e1000e driver.
Install: System installed using the internal DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 5.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe), and the virtio network drivers were used during testing.
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=5G dom0_max_vcpus=4.

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
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Express5800/T120h - Yes Bulletin 147318 | SUSE