PowerEdge R6525

PowerEdge R6525
Network Server
Hitachi, Ltd.

18 Mar 2021
150145

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

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

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

3 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 2 for SUSE SLES 15	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	A08
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 2.0.3 (01/15/2021)
CPU:	AMD EPYC™ 7763 2.45 GHz
RAM:	Host: 4096 GB, 64-bit VM Guests: 1024 GB, Single Max VM 64-bit Guest Tested Memory: 3072 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	3 USB Ports 3 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eW3
Host Bus Adapter:	Dell PERC H745 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	3 Seagate® EXOS Enterprise 15E900 900GB SAS (ST900MP0026) , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.5.0-29.4

Config Notes

The configuration has four E57A2 Blades connected with a 4-Blade SMP Connector.
Intel Ethernet Server Adapter X520-2(Dual Port) driver "ixgbe.ko" used during testing is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver package name is "intel-ixgbe-4.3.13-2.1.x86_64.rpm" and "intel-ixgbe-kmp-default-4.3.13_3.0.101_63-2.1.x86_64.rpm" and was installed after the SLES11SP4 install. To obtain the driver, access https://drivers.suse.com/driver-process/pub/update/Intel/sle11sp4/common/x86_64
Kernel update: SLES11 SP4 kernel update 12480 (3.0.101-71.1.x86-64) is required and was installed during certification testing. This updated kernel includes the lpfc.ko and igb.ko drivers that were used during testing.
This is a SAN boot only system.

Referenced Bulletins
144917

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200eW3
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 06-Jun-2020	Driver Size: 82584
	Checksum: f4565df412097c9a985a175aae408518

Broadcom® BCM5720 dual-port PCI Express® GbE Network Interface Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 06-Jun-2020	Driver Size: 327944
	Checksum: 66da90edfc8f437ccc9dd3572911dc80
	Driver Version: 3.137

Intel Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T4 (Quad Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 06-Jun-2020	Driver Size: 496728
	Checksum: bbf398d0be838fc838a89ffa888d4513
	Driver Version: 5.6.0-k

	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igbvf.ko
	Driver Date: 06-Jun-2020	Driver Size: 91648
	Checksum: c3f471c2f7dbd65b4c98d5280e152139
	Driver Version: 2.4.0-k

Dell PERC H745
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 07-Jun-2020	Driver Size: 307352
	Checksum: 6a8ab28719545a1f0f5b94fb61320d48
	Driver Version: 07.713.01.00-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:

Hitachi, Ltd.
1 Horiyamashita, Hadano-shi
Kanagawa-ken 259-1392
JAPAN
Voice: +81-463-88-8010
Fax: +81-463-87-7495

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