Ultrastar Serv60+8

Ultrastar Serv60+8
Network Server
IBM

04 Oct 2020
149816

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

Product Description
The Ultrastar Serv60+8 Hybrid Storage Server has dual high-performance Intel Xeon scalable processor-based CPUs to manage the demanding workloads in Software Defined Storage (SDS) environments. With choice of CPUs, memory, and drives, it balances performance with cost.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	J17012-501
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: SE5C620.86B.02.01.0011.032620200659 (03/26/2020)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Gold 5218 Processor 2.30 GHz
RAM:	256 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	3 USB Ports 3 PCI Express X8 3 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST1300
Host Bus Adapter:	2 Broadcom® 9400-16i Tri-Mode Storage Adapter , Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel C624 Chipset , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	60 Western Digital Ultrastar® DC HC530 3.5-inch 14TB 7.2K SAS 12Gbps (WUH721414AL4204) , Serial SCSI (SAS) 5 Western Digital Ultrastar® DC SS530 2.5-inch 400GB SAS 12Gbps SSD (WUSTM3240ASS204) , Serial SCSI (SAS) 2 Western Digital Ultrastar® DC SS530 2.5-inch 400GB SAS 12Gbps SSD (WUSTM3240ASS200) , Serial SCSI (SAS) Western Digital Ultrastar® DC SS530 2.5-inch 400GB SAS 12Gbps SSD (WUSTM3240ASS201) , Serial SCSI (SAS) Western Digital Ultrastar® DC SA210 M.2 120GB SATA 6Gbps (HBS3A1912A4M4B1) , Serial ATA (SATA) Western Digital Ultrastar® DC SA210 M.2 960GB SATA 6Gbps (HBS3A1996A4M4B1) , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.5.0-29.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed using external USB connected DVD drive; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
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).
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where the network adapter was given to the SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. One of the embedded Intel® Ethernet Controller I350-AM4 adapters was used in this testing.
Integrated network: only two of the four ethernet adapters/ports on the I350-AM4 quad-port network controller are enabled on this system.

Referenced Bulletins
139172

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST1300
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast.ko
	Driver Date: 15-May-2019	Driver Size: 130840
	Checksum: 91f3d373f3311797e9becd7cb5292262

Intel Integrated Ethernet Connection X722 (Dual-Port) for 10GBASE-T
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: i40e.ko
	Driver Date: 14-May-2019	Driver Size: 760616
	Checksum: 7266d27d397e793c77e347c30a4fe464
	Driver Version: 2.7.6-k

2 Broadcom® 9400-16i Tri-Mode Storage Adapter
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mpt3sas.ko
	Driver Date: 15-May-2019	Driver Size: 520360
	Checksum: 43f480889ce71916f0a0caae93682cdb
	Driver Version: 27.101.00.00

Intel C624 Chipset
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 15-May-2019	Driver Size: 81288
	Checksum: cda6f840da0973af652a5672382ed473
	Driver Version: 3.0

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