HP Z8 Tower G4 Workstation

HP Z8 Tower G4 Workstation
Workstation
IBM

22 Jun 2023
152258

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
For more information on the HP Z8 G4 Workstation, please visit www.hp.com

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Desktop
Mother Board Revision:	MVB 0C
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: P60 v02.46 (01/27/2020)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Gold 6238 Processor 2.10 GHz
RAM:	64 GB
Video Adapter:	AMD Radeon™ Pro WX 3200
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel C622 Chipset , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	HPI ST1000DM003-1SB1 , Serial ATA (SATA)
CD/DVD:	HPE DVDRW GUD1N , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.8.0-150400.77.1

Config Notes

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).
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.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where two of the host network adapters were given to the FV SLES 11 SP3 i586 and SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guests. The Intel® I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapters were used during this testing.
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.

Adapters and Drivers


AMD Radeon™ Pro WX 3200
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: amdgpu.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 11-May-2023	Driver Size: 3980006
	Checksum: 30a258c9e4215c02364290f8ef664ae5

Intel Integrated Ethernet Connection X722 1GbE
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: i40e.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 11-May-2023	Driver Size: 301256
	Checksum: a754a97f2a86be8798c52ea0b2725622

Intel Ethernet Connection I219-LM
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: e1000e.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 11-May-2023	Driver Size: 159132
	Checksum: 0fac0eaac974d616483543600e4c6691

Intel C622 Chipset
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 11-May-2023	Driver Size: 35345
	Checksum: d53fc504c10543caacf60aab984717b8
	Driver Version: 3.0

The term SUSE "YES" Enterprise 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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HP Z8 Tower G4 Workstation - Yes Bulletin 152258 | SUSE