Ubuntu on Dell EMC PowerEdge R540
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The Dell EMC PowerEdge R540 server with the components described below has been awarded the status of certified for Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 64 Bit
Available from ubuntu.com
Testing details
This system was tested with 20.04 LTS, running the 5.4.0-47-generic kernel.
- BIOS
- Dell Inc.: 2.8.2
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 64 Bit
Available from ubuntu.com
Testing details
This system was tested with 18.04 LTS, running the 4.15.0-22-generic kernel.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64 Bit
Available from ubuntu.com
Testing details
This system was tested with 16.04 LTS, running the 4.13.0-32-generic kernel.
- BIOS
- Dell: 1.0.0 (UEFI)
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64 Bit
Available from ubuntu.com
Testing details
This system was tested with 16.04 LTS, running the 4.4.0-96-generic kernel.
Certification notes
- Dell iDRAC and MAAS
This system may not work out of the box in a MAAS environment because IPMI over LAN is disabled by default on Dell iDRAC controllers. Therefore, before you can fully use this system in a MAAS environment, you will need to ensure IPMI over LAN is enabled in the iDRAC settings on your hardware.
We are working with Dell to resolve this and expect it will be fixed in a future release or update to MAAS
- Option Support Statement
The following optional adapters for this server are not currently supported by 16.04 LTS via either the 4.4 or 4.10 kernels: Dell EMC PERC10 RAID Controllers – H740p, H840 Qlogic NIC’s – QL41264, QL41164, QL41262
Support for these optional adapters will be available in the 16.04.4 HWE kernel.
- Purley Platform Support - 16.04 LTS
Purley CPUs and Platforms are not fully supported the 4.4 kernel stream for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. If you are running workloads that require all the features of the Purley CPU instruction set, you will need to update to kernel version 4.10 or later, which is provided by the 'linux-generic-hwe-16.04' package or the 'xenial (hwe-16.04)' kernel option in MAAS.
- BIOS
- Dell: 1.0.0 (UEFI)
Hardware summary
This system was tested with these key components:
| Network |
QLogic Corp. FastLinQ QL41000 Series 10/25/40/50GbE Controller 25GE 2P QL41262HxCU-DE Adapter (1077:8070) Broadcom Corp. NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (14e4:165f) |
| Processor | |
| Video |
Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd. Integrated Matrox G200eW3 Graphics Controller (102b:0536) |