Superdome Flex 280

Superdome Flex 280
Network Server
Lenovo

06 Oct 2020
149832

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
HPE Superdome Flex is the mission critical platform flexible and powerful enough to handle the massive and growing amount of data moving through your business. Its in memory design and unparalled scale give you the ability to analyze data from the digital core to the intelligent edge in real time, keeping you a step ahead. And because the infrastructure is modular and cloud ready. It's the right fit for any business of any size. Keep pace with your evolving in memory computing demands through a unique modular design. Start small and grow as needed, flexibility scaling up or out. With superior RAS and end to end security, HPE Superdome Flex safeguards your vital workloads. Our broad services portfolio and partner ecosystem, and mission-critical expertise help turn data into insight, so you can turn insight into action, and action into success with peace of mind that your businessss will be always on.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Super Server
Mother Board Revision:	R4R03A
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: Bundle:0.3.2 SFW:008.000.083.000.2005070500 (05/07/2020)
CPU:	Intel Xeon® Platinum 8380HL Processor 2.90 GHz
RAM:	6 TB
Ports and Bus Types:	PCI Express X4 10 PCI Express X16 16 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
Host Bus Adapter:	Adaptec SmartRAID 3154-8i8e , Serial SCSI (SAS) Adaptec SmartRAID3154-24i , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	12 HPE 3.2TB SAS 12G MU SFF , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.4.0-41.2

Config Notes

Serial/USB/VGA port(s): provided through KVM connector console breakout cable which supplies one RS232 serial port, one VGA port and two USB ports. The system also has one internal USB port. Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 0.
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to one of the SLES 12 x86_64 guests. One of the embedded IBM Dual-Port 10GB Virtual Fabric Ethernet LOM adapters was used in this testing.
Host network bridging was disabled during certification testing.

Referenced Bulletins
141976

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Nov-2019	Driver Size: 103832
	Checksum: 0a84338d028c855ca7c2eae94404eae4

Intel Gigabit ET Dual Port Server Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Nov-2019	Driver Size: 501448
	Checksum: f89f71f9f1bb0535e16c00d825b1223c
	Driver Version: 5.6.0-k

Adaptec SmartRAID 3154-8i8e
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: smartpqi.ko
	Driver Date: 09-Nov-2019	Driver Size: 170904
	Checksum: e2c3205abf4de15d9a588408d62d7bef
	Driver Version: 1.2.6-015

Adaptec SmartRAID3154-24i
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: smartpqi.ko
	Driver Date: 09-Nov-2019	Driver Size: 170904
	Checksum: e2c3205abf4de15d9a588408d62d7bef
	Driver Version: 1.2.6-015

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:

Lenovo
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
support.lenovo.com

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Superdome Flex 280 - Yes Bulletin 149832 | SUSE