PowerEdge M640

PowerEdge M640
Network Server
Hewlett-Packard Company

14 Apr 2021
150187

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLED 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

Windows Server 2012 R2
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
2 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 2 for SUSE SLES 15	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
The PowerEdge M640 is supported on both Dell PowerEdge VRTX and PowerEdge M1000e Blade Chassis. The Dell Shared PERC 8 card is located between the storage array and the power distribution board on the VRTX planar. The Dell Shared PERC H730P slot routes SAS to the nearby planar miniSAS connectors, which are used to internally cable SAS from the PERC to the SAS expander cards in the storage array. Please visit www.dell.com/vrtx for VRTX detail information. Please visit www.dell.com for more information.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	A00
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 2.10.2 (02/25/2021)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8276 Processor 2.20 GHz
RAM:	Host: 2 TB, 64-bit VM Guests: 610 GB, Single Max VM 64-bit Guest Tested Memory: 1800 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X8 2 PCI Express X4
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eW
Host Bus Adapter:	Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H730P Mini , Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel C621 Chipset , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Seagate® ST2000NX0453 SAS 2TB , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	HLDS GU60N , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.5.0-29.4

Config Notes

Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter in the elilo.conf file was changed from 128 to 256 (crashkernel=512M-:256M) for kdump to function correctly.
SUSE Driver Kit: The ibm_x6-sle11sp3-x86_64 driver kit is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver kit was installed during the SLES install process as an initial bootable iso image. This driver must be downloaded and installed before the SLES install. To obtain the driver go to: http://drivers.suse.com/ibm/IBM-X6/sle11-sp3/install-readme.html.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=20G dom0_max_vcpus=20.
Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8973 and kernel update 9105 (x86-64) are required and were installed during certification testing.
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 R2 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 one of the host network adapters was given to the FV SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. One of the Intel® I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapters was used during this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eW
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 06-Jun-2020	Driver Size: 82584
	Checksum: f4565df412097c9a985a175aae408518

Intel Gigabit 4P I350 bNDC (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 PowerEdge RAID Controller H730P Mini
	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

Intel C621 Chipset
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 06-Jun-2020	Driver Size: 81200
	Checksum: 6c62cb81fb973cf2e6ed7d35c964be09
	Driver Version: 3.0

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:

Hewlett-Packard Company
Workstation Global Business Unit
Fort Collins , CO 80528
Website: http://www.hp.com

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