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| VMware ESX 9.0
Network Server
Broadcom Inc. | 17 Jun 2025
153965 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
| 4
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 |
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SP:
Service Pack 5 for SUSE SLES 12 |
Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
Product Description
VMware ESX is a complete, scalable and robust virtualization platform. Designed to reduce capital and operation costs. Maximize IT efficiency while giving you agility through automation and the freedom to choose applications, SUSE® Linux Enterprise OS and hardware.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Virtual Machine |
| Mother Board Revision: | Intel 440 BX Desktop Reference Platform / Motherboard Rev B0 |
| BIOS/uEFI: | UEFI: VMW201.00V.24519234.B64.2501240220 (01/24/2025) |
| CPU: | 8 Intel
Xeon® Platinum 8490H Processor 1.90 GHz |
| RAM: | Host: 16 TB, 64-bit VM Guests: 4096 GB, Single Max VM 64-bit Guest: 16384 GB |
| Video Adapter: | VMware®
VMware SVGA II |
| Host Bus Adapter: | VMware®
Paravirtual SCSI (PVSCSI) adapter
, SCSI
VMware®
VMware SATA AHCI Controller
, Serial ATA (SATA)
VMware®
Virtual IDE Device for SUSE Linux
, IDE |
| Hard Disk Drive: | VMware®
Virtual disk rev:1.0 (IDE)
, IDE
VMware®
Virtual Hard Disk rev:1.0 (SCSI)
, SCSI |
| CD/DVD: | VMware®
VMware SATA CD00
, Serial ATA (SATA) |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 9.0.0-150500.103.1 |
Config Notes
- System certification testing was performed with a SLES 12 SP5 64-bit virtual machine installed on UEFI firmware with Secure Boot enabled and configured with up to 960 CPUs and 16384 GB of memory.
- The VMware Memory Ballooning driver included in SLES 12 SP5 is autoloaded to improve the virtual machine memory performance.
- Broadcom recommends using the Open VM Tools redistributed by operating system vendors. For additional information, see knowledge base article 313456 at https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?articleNumber=313456.
- Broadcom recommends using the paravirtual drivers contributed upstream and redistributed by operating system vendors. For additional information, see knowledge base article 306577 at https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?articleNumber=306577
- VMware guest OS installation information can be found at http://partnerweb.vmware.com/GOSIG/SLE_12.html.
- System support: Please note that for full support on the listed OS release a special SUSE support contract is necessary.
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Adapters and Drivers
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| VMware®
VMware SVGA II |
| | Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: vmwgfx.ko |
| | Driver Date: 08-Nov-2019 | Driver Size: 631408 |
| | Checksum: 11817b6b32e95ef1de657476b3591f26 |
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| VMware®
VMXNET3 Ethernet Adapter |
| | Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: vmxnet3.ko |
| | Driver Date: 08-Nov-2019 | Driver Size: 112680 |
| | Checksum: 3d6e3e20aaba2daabeee85bd4d9e95c8 |
| | Driver Version: 1.4.16.0-k |
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| VMware®
Paravirtual SCSI (PVSCSI) adapter |
| | Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: vmw_pvscsi.ko |
| | Driver Date: 08-Nov-2019 | Driver Size: 49824 |
| | Checksum: a37f6821b94893299972b6780b6f61a7 |
| | Driver Version: 1.0.7.0-k |
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| VMware®
VMware SATA AHCI Controller |
| | Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: ahci.ko |
| | Driver Date: 08-Nov-2019 | Driver Size: 81304 |
| | Checksum: a9778a47d1b0920ec81c485d11320d39 |
| | Driver Version: 3.0 |
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| VMware®
Virtual IDE Device for SUSE Linux |
| | Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: ata_piix.ko |
| | Driver Date: 08-Nov-2019 | Driver Size: 58072 |
| | Checksum: 3623e657977084199608d3ef34450028 |
| | Driver Version: 2.13 |
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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:
Broadcom Inc.
190 Mathilda Place
Sunnyvale
, CA
94086
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