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 | Compute Scale-up Server 3250
Network Server
Dell Incorporated | 15 Dec 2025
154908 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 6 for SUSE® SLES 15 |
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
| 3
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 |
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SP:
Service Pack 7 for SUSE SLES 15 |
Product Description
The HPE Compute Scale-up Server 3250 is the newest model in the HPE Compute Scale-up family of servers. This highly reliable, scalable and secure server starts at 4 and scales up to 16 powerful 6th generation Intel(R) Xeon(R) Scalable Processors, in 4 socket increments. Its modular architecture scales cost-efficiently to meet your data growth needs. To support growth of in-memory databases and data-intensive workloads, HPE Compute Scale-up Server 3250 offers large, shared memory capacity ranging from 256 GB to 64 TB. It utilizes ultra-fast DDR5 DIMMs with 16 DIMM slots per processor, delivering twice the memory bandwidth compared to prior generations. Its flexible I/O subsystem, based on PCIe5.0, delivers 4x I/O bandwidth compared to prior models Extreme RAS including advanced memory resiliency, "firmware first", analysis engine, and auto self-healing ensures the highest reliability for mission critical apps. Superior security, including HPE Silicon Root of Trust and TPM modules, protects your workloads and data against firmware attacks and malware.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Super Server |
| Mother Board Revision: | S4S70A |
| BIOS/uEFI: | UEFI: Bundle:0.0.274-20251121_083141 SFW:010.000.135.000.2511180241 (11/18/2025) |
| CPU: | 16 Intel
Xeon® 6788P Processor |
| RAM: | 32 TB |
| Video Adapter: | Matrox®
G200eH5 |
| Host Bus Adapter: | HPE
SN1700E 64Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter |
| Storage Area Network (SAN) Device: | HPE
MSA 2060 FC Storage |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 10.0.0-150700.128.11 |
Config Notes
- Install: System install required the following boot parameters: "maxcpus=1 mem=1024M". These boot parameters should be removed from the system boot options after the system installation is completed.
- Install: PXE Boot, OS Installed via Network.
- System was configured as 2-node EXA scalable partition with 2 MAX5 memory drawers.
- KVM Guest: The SLE10SP4 guest was configured with a virtual e1000 NIC.
- Current kernel maintenance updates were installed on the SLE11SP1 KVM guests in order to provide updated virtio drivers.
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Adapters and Drivers
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| Matrox®
G200eH5 |
| | Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: mgag200.ko.zst |
| | Driver Date: 08-Sep-2025 | Driver Size: 37329 |
| | Checksum: 27fdfd9cf5176f0fa2196b9630060c24 |
| | Driver Version: 19F3FD4C78E2311F4BA5526 |
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| HPE
SN1700E 64Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter |
| | Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: qla2xxx.ko.zst |
| | Driver Date: 08-Sep-2025 | Driver Size: 635427 |
| | Checksum: cad472c011d4a19662803901817877ae |
| | Driver Version: 10.02.09.400-k |
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| Broadcom®
BCM5719 Ethernet 1Gb 4-port BASE-T Adapter |
| | Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: bnxt_en.ko.zst |
| | Driver Date: 08-Sep-2025 | Driver Size: 282737 |
| | Checksum: 458e71398fe90a61560d551315c673d9 |
| | Driver Version: CDD6C52247107F9A75D1556 |
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| Mellanox®
MCX631102AS-ADAT Ethernet 10/25Gb 2-port SFP28 Adapter |
| | Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: mlx5_core.ko.zst |
| | Driver Date: 08-Sep-2025 | Driver Size: 1274850 |
| | Checksum: d9328a32975a2a19a7c850ca36cd3a9d |
| | Driver Version: 76E9CA88FFA779ED10053D0 |
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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:
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