PRIMERGY® RX2520 M5

PRIMERGY® RX2520 M5
Network Server
HP Inc.

20 Aug 2019
148587

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 5 for SUSE® SLES 15

Other Products:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension

Product Description
The Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX2520 M5 is an efficient and scalable platform for essential business applications. Its dual sockets host Intel® Xeon® Scalable Family processors with up to 768 GB RAM. The PRIMERGY RX2520 delivers an especially well balanced price/performance ratio making it ideal for baseline datacenter workloads i.e., for collaboration platforms or storage-hungry applications. The system design offers room for future growth thanks to modular design approaches for variable base units, PSUs, controllers, LAN etc. iRMC S5 server management lowers operational costs additionally.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	D3386-B1
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: R1.11.0 (07/12/2019)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8268 Processor 2.90 GHz
RAM:	256 GB
Persistent Memory:	512 GB, 4 Intel® Optane™ DC 128GB Persistent Memory Modules
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports 3 PCI Express X8 2 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200e
Host Bus Adapter:	Fujitsu PRAID EP420i , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® ST600MP0064 - Enterprise Performance 15K HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.3.0-27.1

Config Notes

System certification testing was performed with a SLES 15 SP7 64-bit virtual machine installed on UEFI firmware with Secure Boot enabled and configured with up to 960 CPUs and 16384 GB of memory.
Broadcom recommends using the Open VM Tools redistributed by operating system vendors. For additional information, see knowledge base article 313456 at https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?articleNumber=313456.
Broadcom recommends using the paravirtual drivers contributed upstream and redistributed by operating system vendors . For additional information, see knowledge base article 306577 at https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?articleNumber=306577.
The VMware Memory Ballooning driver included in SLES 15 SP7 is auto loaded to improve the virtual machine memory performance.
VMware guest OS installation information can be found at: http://partnerweb.vmware.com/GOSIG/SLE_15.html.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200e
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 105288
	Checksum: 1eae76e8c5bf871e23a8cf646aaf1ed6

Intel Ethernet Controller I350-AM2 (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

Fujitsu PRAID EP420i
	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:

HP Inc.
Retail Solutions
Houston , TX 77070
Website: http://www.hp.com/go/pos

612060

PRIMERGY® RX2520 M5 - Yes Bulletin 148587 | SUSE