NF5468M6

NF5468M6
Network Server
KAYTUS SYSTEMS PTE.LTD.

24 Oct 2023
152833

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 5 for SUSE® SLES 15

Other Products:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	1.0
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 04.12.00 (03/04/2021)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8380 Processor 2.30 GHz
RAM:	32 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 PCI Express X16 2 PCI Express X8 4 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2500
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS-3 3108 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Toshiba AL13SEB300 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.5.0-29.4

Config Notes

Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
VM Driver Pack: All 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), and the virtio drivers was used.
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 one SLES 11 SP3 i586 guest and one SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. Two adapters (ports) from the Intel® I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapter was 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


ASPEED AST2500
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast.ko
	Driver Date: 06-Jun-2020	Driver Size: 115632
	Checksum: f1fc1a718c1def157bd5b84ad0d9dbae

Intel Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X710-DA2 (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: i40e.ko
	Driver Date: 07-Jun-2020	Driver Size: 828248
	Checksum: fca60438f013636335cdf07c894451f0
	Driver Version: 2.8.20-k

LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS-3 3108
	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:

KAYTUS SYSTEMS PTE.LTD.
22 SIN MING LANE, #06-76
Midview City 573969
SINGAPORE
Voice: 06569023601
Website: www.kaytus.com

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NF5468M6 - Yes Bulletin 152833 | SUSE