PowerEdge C6420

PowerEdge C6420
Network Server
IBM

15 May 2019
148030

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 11

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:	A00
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 2.1.8 (04/30/2019)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8276 Processor 2.20 GHz
RAM:	Host Platform: 2 TB, 64-bit VM Guests: 594 GB, Single Max VM 64-bit Guest Tested Memory: 1633 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 USB Ports PCI Express X16 2 PCI Express X8 2 PCI Express X4
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eW
Host Bus Adapter:	Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H730P Mini , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® ST2000NX0433 2TB 2.5 inch 12Gb/s SAS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.2.0-15.5

Config Notes

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, system also has one built-in USB port.
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard disk configuration: HDD - single SATA drive, M.2 boot drive - two SSD configured as a RAID 1. The "Device model" selected for the SLES guest virtual network adapter during testing was e1000, instead of the default virtio.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 15 guest. One of the Intel Integrated Ethernet Connection X722 for 10GbE SFP+ adapters was used in this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eW
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 105288
	Checksum: 1eae76e8c5bf871e23a8cf646aaf1ed6

Intel Embedded Ethernet Server Adapter I350 (Single Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 489024
	Checksum: d5232654a1debc91e634dcdcdf5d1fc8
	Driver Version: 5.4.0-k

Intel Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T2 (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 489024
	Checksum: d5232654a1debc91e634dcdcdf5d1fc8
	Driver Version: 5.4.0-k

	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igbvf.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 91176
	Checksum: 0e086f13fa88839bfea7aef53fc5a5e5
	Driver Version: 2.4.0-k

Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H730P Mini
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 288872
	Checksum: 05a11c19ea5020998382f29c3ae31971
	Driver Version: 07.704.04.00-rc1

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

589718

PowerEdge C6420 - Yes Bulletin 148030 | SUSE