PowerEdge T640

PowerEdge T640
Network Server
IBM

26 Jun 2019
148296

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Tower
Mother Board Revision:	A00
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 2.2.9 (05/08/2019)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8280L Processor 2.70 GHz
RAM:	3 TB
Ports and Bus Types:	8 USB Ports 4 PCI Express X16 4 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eW3
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel C621 Chipset , Serial ATA (SATA) Dell PERC H740P Mini , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® ST1000NX0453 2.5 inch, 1TB, 12Gb/s, SAS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	LG GU90N , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.2.0-15.5

Config Notes

This is a SAN boot only system.
Install: The SLES install was performed using a virtual DVD device.
The driver "hfcldd.ko" used during testing is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver was installed from the driver update disk (DUD) "dud-htc-hfcldd-4.12.22.4346.iso" and the driver package "htc-hfcldd-kmp-default-4.12.22.4346_4.12.14_120-1.sles12sp5.x86_64.rpm". To obtain DUD and the driver package, go to http://www.hitachi.co.jp/products/bladesymphony/download/driver/12347937.html. DUD can be used to install SUSE Linux Enterprise Server(SLES) to the SAN storage, and driver package can be installed after the SLES installation.
The driver "ixgbe.ko" used during testing is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver ixgbe used for Intel(R) 10GbE PCI Express Family of Server Adapters is named "ixgbe-kmp-default-5.6.5_k4.12.14_120-h1b.x86_64.rpm". This driver package can be downloaded and installed after the SLES12 SP5 install. To obtain the driver go to http://www.hitachi.co.jp/products/bladesymphony/download/driver/12347936.html.
The maximum CPU cores or threads when hyper threading is enabled which can be allocated from LPAR is 240.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200eW3
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 105288
	Checksum: 1eae76e8c5bf871e23a8cf646aaf1ed6

Broadcom® BCM957416A4160C (Dual-Port) 10GBASE-T
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnxt_en.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 344152
	Checksum: 5ad93a791c298c8a4120f282b7295a2a
	Driver Version: 1.8.0

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

Dell PERC H740P 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:
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PowerEdge T640 - Yes Bulletin 148296 | SUSE