R2520G6U2XD

R2520G6U2XD
Network Server
Hewlett-Packard Company

09 Jul 2025
154211

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 10

Product Description
2U 2-Socket Intel® Xeon® 6 Birchstream HPC/VM Server. The product datasheet is located at https://download2.mitaccomputing.com/pub/datasheets/DataSheet_R2520G6_121924.pdf.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	411B06600260
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: V1.04 (05/14/2025)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® 6780E Processor 2.20 GHz
RAM:	2048 GB
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2600
Host Bus Adapter:	3 KIOXIA Non-Volatile memory controller (NVMe) for KIOXIA devices
Hard Disk Drive:	KIOXIA XG8 Series (M.2), 2 TB, PCIe 4.0, NVMe 1.4 (KXG80ZNV2T04) 2 KIOXIA CD8-R Series (2.5-inch), 7.68 TB, PCIe 4.0, NVMe 1.4 (KCD81RUG7T68)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 9.2.0-150600.117.4

Config Notes

Headless configuration - no graphics adapter. System configured using IBM remote Hardware Management Console (HMC) for graphics, keyboard and mouse
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were changed based on the content in the following knowledge-base article: https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=3374462
Install: The SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server install was performed using a network install method
Power management: The System/Processor dynamic CPU frequency scaling functionality in SLES is not supported on POWER8 (PowerVM) as this functionality is provided by the POWER8 hardware itself.
Maintenance updates: the SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Power 12 SP1 system requires the following two maintenance updates, 1) kernel-default-3.12.57-60.35.1.ppc64le.rpm. The system can be updated after the initial install. This update can be downloaded from: https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=qd0PaT_bWqU~ and 2) kexec-tools 1056 update available at: https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=8uWJi0YOv-o~.

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST2600
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: swrast_dri.so
	Driver Date: 15-Mar-2024	Driver Size: 32593992
	Checksum: 0cc917841cdf8fcd1de2c965dce600dc

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 12-Jun-2024	Driver Size: 45011
	Checksum: 171697309d0ce79d20252d08962ee209

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: modesetting_drv.so
	Driver Date: 09-May-2024	Driver Size: 119400
	Checksum: 733a6535aaed84a3d4701c39dd750c8d

Intel Ethernet Network Adapter X710-T4L for OCP 3.0 (Quad Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: i40e.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 12-Jun-2024	Driver Size: 376825
	Checksum: 48916b1feb83a52652f775309d883411

3 KIOXIA Non-Volatile memory controller (NVMe) for KIOXIA devices
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: nvme.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 12-Jun-2024	Driver Size: 43741
	Checksum: 1247b1054101dde0910e09fe6dbfa39d
	Driver Version: 1.0

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:

Hewlett-Packard Company
Industry Standard Server Division
20555 SH249
Houston , TX 77070
Website: http://www.hp.com

577597

R2520G6U2XD - Yes Bulletin 154211 | SUSE