PowerEdge FC640

PowerEdge FC640
Network Server
IBM

26 Jun 2019
148300

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 3 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:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	A00
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 2.2.9 (05/08/2019)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8276 Processor 2.20 GHz
RAM:	Host Platform: 2048 GB, 64-bit VM Guests: 576 GB, Single Max VM 64-bit Guest Tested Memory: 1792 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	USB Ports 2 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eW
Host Bus Adapter:	Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H730P Mini , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Seagate® ST2000NX0453 SAS 2TB , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.2.0-15.5

Config Notes

Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8588 and kernel update 8827 (x86-64) are required and were installed during certification testing.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter in the elilo.conf file was changed from 128 to 256 (crashkernel=512M-:256M) for kdump to function correctly.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=10G dom0_max_vcpus=10.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where one of the host network adapters was given to one of the SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guests. One adapter in the embedded I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE was used during 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 Gigabit 4P I350 bNDC (Quad Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igbvf.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 91176
	Checksum: 0e086f13fa88839bfea7aef53fc5a5e5
	Driver Version: 2.4.0-k

	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 489024
	Checksum: d5232654a1debc91e634dcdcdf5d1fc8
	Driver Version: 5.4.0-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

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PowerEdge FC640 - Yes Bulletin 148300 | SUSE