HPE Apollo 35 System

HPE Apollo 35 System
Network Server
IBM

05 Apr 2019
147761

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Power 12 Service Pack 5 for SUSE® SLES 12

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

3 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SUSE SLES 12	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	1.01
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 1.1 (09/03/2018)
CPU:	2 AMD EPYC™ 7371 3.60 GHz
RAM:	Host Platform: 512 GB, 64-bit VM Guests: 128 GB, Single Max VM 64-bit Guest Tested Memory: 256 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2500
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic SAS3008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-3 , Serial SCSI (SAS) AMD EPYC™ 7371 Integrated FCH SATA Controller , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	HPE MK000480GWCEV SM863a 480GB SSD , Serial ATA (SATA) Seagate® ST9600204SS , Serial SCSI (SAS) HPE VR000480GWEPR 480GB SSD , Serial ATA (SATA) Supermicro Computer SATA DOM SSD-DM064-SMCMVN1 , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.2.0-15.5

Config Notes

Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were changed based on the content in the following knowledge-base article for ppc64le: https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=3374462
Power management: The System/Processor dynamic CPU frequency scaling functionality in SLES is not supported on POWER10 (PowerVM) as this functionality is provided by the POWER10 hardware itself.
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.
CPU: This system is a 2 node configuration with 4 sockets per node, totaling 8 CPU sockets. The POWER10 4.0 GHz CPUs tested each have 15 cores and SMT 8. Totaling for the system 120 cores and 960 threads.
Required configuration: SLES 12 SP5 will only run in POWER9 Compatibility mode. 'Compatibility mode' simply means that the POWER10 processor with SMT8 will act as though it were a POWER9 processor with SMT8.

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST2500
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 130632
	Checksum: 2b1d7c8b92a90ff3b3c5fce07dcc9ffe

Intel X550-T2 Dual Port 10GBase-T Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbe.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 720904
	Checksum: afb7d404d70b31b1245d3f7fe21727f6
	Driver Version: 5.1.0-k

	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbevf.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 135016
	Checksum: 03f49f1c60a6f0d4c936e1644e66c41c
	Driver Version: 4.1.0-k

LSI Logic SAS3008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-3
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mpt3sas.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 531136
	Checksum: 4f4e9e882c0d330c112a30d1b7906d4d
	Driver Version: 17.100.00.00

AMD EPYC™ 7371 Integrated FCH SATA Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 79168
	Checksum: 4f7c7f0d69f4ac743ca67d4e22b5c8ef
	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:

IBM
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