HP Z8 G4 Workstation

HP Z8 G4 Workstation
Network Server
Lenovo

23 Apr 2019
147900

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 12

Product Description
For more information about the HP Z8 G4, please visit www.hp.com

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Desktop
Mother Board Revision:	MVB 0C
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: P60 v01.28 (02/01/2018)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Silver 4114 Processor 2.20 GHz
RAM:	30 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	7 USB Ports 3 PCI Express X8 4 PCI Express X16 2 PCI Express X4
Video Adapter:	NVIDIA® Quadro P400
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel C600/X79 series chipset SATA RAID Controller , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	HPI ST1000DM003-1SB1 , Serial ATA (SATA)
CD/DVD:	HPI G3 8/6/4 SFF DVD Writer , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.2.0-15.5

Config Notes

System was scaled up to 4-socket by joining two x880 X6 with 4S scalability connector. Serial/USB/VGA port(s): provided through KVM connector console breakout cable which supplies one RS232 serial port, one VGA port and two USB ports.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter was changed to crashkernel=251M,high crashkernel=172M,low for kdump to function correctly.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to one of the SLES 12 FV guests. One of the integrated Lenovo Embedded Four-Port 10GB Virtual Fabric Ethernet LOM adapters was used in this testing.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows Server 2016 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.4.exe), the virtio network drivers were used during testing.
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard Disk Configuration: JBOD.

Referenced Bulletins
145171

Adapters and Drivers


NVIDIA® Quadro P400
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: fbdev_drv.so
	Driver Date: 25-Oct-2016	Driver Size: 471479

	Driver Version: 0xa1

Intel Integrated Ethernet Connection X722 1GbE
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: i40e.ko
	Driver Date: 26-Oct-2016	Driver Size: 471479
	Checksum: 355fc516cb68a42c0d41e284123a55b3
	Driver Version: 1.4.25-k

Intel Ethernet Connection I219-LM
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: e1000e.ko
	Driver Date: 25-Oct-2016	Driver Size: 407911
	Checksum: 795b336d4b26bf72f90e92a802328410
	Driver Version: 3.2.6-k

Intel C600/X79 series chipset SATA RAID Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 25-Oct-2016	Driver Size: 72895
	Checksum: f0ad0f11072e317bc80570a7483343e9
	Driver Version: 3.0

The term SUSE "YES" Enterprise 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:

Lenovo
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
support.lenovo.com

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HP Z8 G4 Workstation - Yes Bulletin 147900 | SUSE