PowerEdge R540

PowerEdge R540
Network Server
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

26 Jun 2019
148312

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64

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:	A04
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 2.2.9 (05/08/2019)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Gold 6230 Processor 2.10 GHz
RAM:	Host Platform: 1024 GB, 64-bit VM Guests: 256 GB, Single Max VM 64-bit Guest Tested Memory: 960 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports PCI Express X16 2 PCI Express X4 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eW3
Host Bus Adapter:	Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H330 , Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel C621 Chipset , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	Toshiba MG Series, 2 TB, SAS (MG04SCA20EN) , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	Philips and Lite-On Digital Storage Corporation DU-8A5LH DVD +/-RW , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.2.0-15.5

Config Notes

Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 0.
Install: System installed using the internal DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where one of the network adapters, Broadcom® Integrated BCM5709C Dual-Port 10/100/1000BASE-T, was given to the SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. In addition, interrupt remapping support was enabled via "echo 1 > /sys/module/kvm/parameters/allow_unsafe_assigned_interrupts"
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 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe), and the virtio network drivers were used during testing.

Referenced Bulletins
139869

Adapters and Drivers


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

Intel Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T4 (Quad 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 H330
	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

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

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:

Sun Microsystems, Inc.
4150 Network Circle
Santa Clara , CA 95054

559984

PowerEdge R540 - Yes Bulletin 148312 | SUSE