ProLiant XL450 Gen10 (Apollo 4500) 2.1GHz Twenty-Four Core

ProLiant XL450 Gen10 (Apollo 4500) 2.1GHz Twenty-Four Core
Network Server
IBM

26 Apr 2019
147950

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Power 12

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

2 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:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	Gen10
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: U40 (02/02/2019)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Gold 6252 Processor 2.10 GHz
RAM:	Host Platform: 128 GB, 64-bit VM Guests: 32 GB, Single Max VM 64-bit Guest Tested Memory: 101 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 USB Ports 3 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eH
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel C621 Chipset , Serial ATA (SATA) HPE Smart Array P408i-p SR Gen10 Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Intel SSD DC S3520 Series 1.6TB, SATA (SSDSC2BB016T701) , Serial ATA (SATA) HPE 600GB SAS 12G Enterprise 15K SFF , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.2.0-15.5

Config Notes

Latest maintenance kernel 4.4.114-94.14-default.ppc64le is installed for basic POWER9 support from https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=MiaxOdQDFSA~
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.
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.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200eH
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 105288
	Checksum: 1eae76e8c5bf871e23a8cf646aaf1ed6

HPE Ethernet 1Gb 2-port 332i Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 330656
	Checksum: 9fb046a84cd57de0907f4284c31c8623
	Driver Version: 3.137

HPE Ethernet 10Gb 2-port 562T 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

Intel C621 Chipset
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 79168
	Checksum: 4f7c7f0d69f4ac743ca67d4e22b5c8ef
	Driver Version: 3.0

HPE Smart Array P408i-p SR Gen10 Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: smartpqi.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 152696
	Checksum: e3a32815d4f57fd19823c66f05b803d9
	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:
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