UCSC-C480-M5

UCSC-C480-M5
Network Server
IBM

30 May 2019
148144

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
Cisco UCS C480 M5 with Intel Platinum 8280M CPU with Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory Module options - 128G/256G/512G, 2666MHz

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	73-17994-04
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: C480M5.4.0.4c.0.0506190735 (05/06/2019)
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8280M Processor 2.70 GHz
RAM:	1920 GB
Persistent Memory:	1024GB, 4 Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory 256GB Modules
Ports and Bus Types:	USB Ports 2 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
Host Bus Adapter:	Cisco 12G SAS Modular Raid Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Seagate® Exos™ 7E8, 4TB, SAS (ST4000NM0025) , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.2.0-15.5

Config Notes

Install: System installed using PXE network install; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Disk configuration: HDD single disk configured as RAID 0 and M.2 boot device with two SSDs configured as a RAID 0 device. The "Device model" selected for the SLES guest virtual network adapter during testing was e1000, instead of the default virtio.
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-2.5.exe), the virtio network drivers were used during testing.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to one of the SLES 15 guests. One of the Intel Ethernet Connection X722 for 10GbE SFP+ adapters was used in this testing.
Serial/USB/VGA port(s): provided through a KVM connector console breakout cable which supplies one RS232 serial port, one VGA port and two USB ports. As noted in the Tested Configuration above, the system also has one internal USB port.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 31-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 106720
	Checksum: 69845dd9d9465dfc3d37d29b27d4ad5a

Supermicro Computer AOC-MTG-i4T, 10GbE (Quad Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbe.ko
	Driver Date: 31-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 723688
	Checksum: 709366b0e6e67c8c7f223491998f15f8
	Driver Version: 5.1.0-k

Cisco 12G SAS Modular Raid Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 31-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 293840
	Checksum: 635faadb60d3bceab0350cc9d3794166
	Driver Version: 07.704.04.00-rc1

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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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