Advanced Server DS225

Advanced Server DS225
Network Server
IBM

11 Nov 2020
149993

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	31S5BMB0030
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: S5BH3B16.H00 (10/31/2019)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8260L Processor 2.40 GHz
RAM:	1.5 TB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X16 2 PCI Express X8 2 PCI Express X4
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2500
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel C624 Chipset , Serial ATA (SATA) Emulex Corporation LPe31002 FC (Dual-Port) , FibreChannel Intel Non-Volatile memory controller (NVMe) , NVMe
Hard Disk Drive:	Intel SSD D3-S4610, 1.92TB, SATA (SSDSC2KG019T8) , Serial ATA (SATA) Western Digital Ultrastar® DC HC320 SATA 6Gb/s 8 TB (HUS728T8TALE6L4) , Serial ATA (SATA)
Storage Area Network (SAN) Device:	Hitachi Data Systems Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.4.0-41.2

Config Notes

VMware Tools information can be found at: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/340 and http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1014294.
Installation of VMware Tools is recommended to enhance performance and improve management of virtual machines. VMware Tools for SUSE® Linux Enterprise are available as an ISO (TAR Format with perl installer) bundled with vSphere.
VMware guest OS installation information can be found at: http://partnerweb.vmware.com/GOSIG/SLES_11.html.
Virtual machine guest: System certification testing was performed with a virtual machine configured with up to 1011 GB of memory on a SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest.
Virtual machine guest: System certification testing was performed with a SLES 11 SP3 64-bit virtual machine configured with up to 64 CPUs.
The VMware Memory Ballooning driver included in SLES 11 SP3 is auto loaded to improve the virtual machine memory performance.

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST2500
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast.ko
	Driver Date: 09-Nov-2019	Driver Size: 131624
	Checksum: 4e9d1682c5fd55e5303cc52190127078

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast_drv.so
	Driver Date: 29-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 114288
	Checksum: b3f8daf7170ed565963992c55752fb17
	Driver Version: 1.1.5

Intel Ethernet Network Adapter XXV710-DA2 (Dual-Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: i40e.ko
	Driver Date: 09-Nov-2019	Driver Size: 785376
	Checksum: 25d46e9f773e656f68039107206284cc
	Driver Version: 2.8.20-k

Intel C624 Chipset
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Nov-2019	Driver Size: 81304
	Checksum: a9778a47d1b0920ec81c485d11320d39
	Driver Version: 3.0

Emulex Corporation LPe31002 FC (Dual-Port)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: lpfc.ko
	Driver Date: 09-Nov-2019	Driver Size: 1778688
	Checksum: b3558c840720cfa5877dd5c1eace2b42
	Driver Version: 0:12.4.0.0

Intel Non-Volatile memory controller (NVMe)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: nd_pmem.ko
	Driver Date: 09-Nov-2019	Driver Size: 31040
	Checksum: 4a22d43267cbc8a1785e2d4ae2291c58

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:
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