Proliant DL785 G6
Network Server
Hewlett Packard Company
17 Aug 2010
133377

YES CERTIFIED with the following products:
Operating Systems:
  SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64® & Intel® EM64T® with XEN     Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
  Windows 2003 Server R2
  Support Pack:  Service Pack 2 for Windows 2003     Arch:  32     Mode:  Fully Virtualized
  SLES 11 for x86
  Support Pack:  Service Pack 1 for SLES 11     Arch:  32     Mode:  Paravirtualized
  SLES 11 for AMD64 & EM64T
  Support Pack:  Service Pack 1 for SLES 11     Arch:  64     Mode:  Fully Virtualized

Product Description
Powered by latest AMD Opteron 6 Core Processors, the HP ProLiant DL785G6 is the next generation server of the award winning HP ProLiant DL785G5. HP ProLiant DL785G6 is an 8 socket x86 server, supporting up to eight Six-Core AMD Opteron Processors, 512GB of memory, 11 PCI-e I/O slots or an optional I/O backplane with 7 PCI-e & 2 HTx I/O slots. With this highly expandable feature set, the DL785G6 is an ideal choice for the growing enterprise class database, consolidation and virtualization environments seeking to improve server utilization and reduce server and virtualization sprawl, while continuing to leverage all the familiar and easy to use ProLiant management tools and options.

Tested Configuration:
Computer Type:Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:G6
BIOS:A15
CPU:8 AMD  Six-Core AMD Opteron™ 8439SE 2.80 GHz
RAM:512 GB
Bus Type:3 PCI Express X16
3 PCI Express X8
5 PCI Express X4
Video Adapter:ATI®  ES1000
Host Bus Adapter:Broadcom®  BCM5785 SATA , Serial ATA (SATA)
HP  Smart Array P400i Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:2 HP  DG072A8B54 72 GB SFF SAS 10K , Serial SCSI (SAS)
6 HP  DG036A8B53, 36 GB, SAS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:Sony  Optiarc DVD RW AD-7581A , IDE
Test Kit:System Certification Kit 6.6.0-34.1


Config Notes


Adapters and Drivers
2 HP  NC371i PCI-X Multifunction Gigabit
Driver Type: LAN DriverFile Name: bnx2.ko
File Date: 20-May-2010File Size: 119648
Checksum: 26ac1b061a7c06cf31fe4505bc66c932

Broadcom®  BCM5785 SATA
Driver Type: HBA DriverFile Name: pata_serverworks.ko
File Date: 20-May-2010File Size: 17016
Checksum: dd753c68b0f8d6c4a3432533f52eeb6b

HP  Smart Array P400i Controller
Driver Type: HBA DriverFile Name: cciss.ko
File Date: 20-May-2010File Size: 152408
Checksum: afa135b70f22e95144f90c6c24b45ccd

ATI®  ES1000
Driver Type: Video DriverFile Name: radeon_drv.so
File Date: 29-Mar-2010File Size: 720064
Checksum: 392237aeb0878c4fe6de3c5728a9c319


The term YES CERTIFIED applies only to the exact configuration documented in this bulletin. Components including LAN adapters, host bus adapters and other individually YES CERTIFIED components may be exchanged for other YES CERTIFIED components. For more information on swapping YES CERTIFIED components, please access the following web page:

http://developer.novell.com/devres/system/policy/exchange.htm

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