Linux Hardware Matrix for HP Workstations

HP Z840 Workstation
Certified with RHEL 6.5 and RHEL 7.0. Certified with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (BIOS 1.25 required).
Certified with SLED 11 SP3 and SLED 12 (NVIDIA graphics). Other certifications pending.

This page is not complete without the General Notes (first page of the matrix).

Product Items/Features SLED11 SP3 or later SLED12 or later RHEL 6.5 or later RHEL 7.0 or later Ubuntu 14.04 LTS or Ubuntu 16.04 LTS or
(Blank box or unlisted -> component is NOT functional w/ as-is OS) (x86_64) (x86_64) (x86_64) (x86_64) later (x86_64) later (x86_64)
HP Workstation Base System
Base system includes: Chassis, System Board, Power Supply, etc. • • • • • •
HP Localization Kit 1 1 1 1 1 1
All Supported Processors
All supported v3 (Haswell) & v4 (Broadwell) E5-26xx Xeon® processors (see footnote 12)
Graphics Card (Video Card) (see footnote 13)
No Graphics Card • • • • • •
AMD FirePro W2100 • • • • • •
AMD FirePro W4300 • • • • • •
AMD FirePro W5100 • • • • • •
AMD FirePro W7100 • • • • • •
AMD Radeon Pro WX 4100 11 11 11 11 11 11
AMD Radeon Pro WX 7100 11 11 11 11 11 11
NVIDIA NVS 310 512MB and 1GB • • • • • •
NVIDIA NVS 315 1GB • • • • • •
NVIDIA NVS 510 2GB • • • • • •
NVS Quadro K420 1GB and 2GB • • • • • •
NVIDIA Quadro K620 2GB • • • • • •
NVIDIA Quadro K1200 • • • • • •
NVIDIA Quadro K2200 4GB • • • • • •
NVIDIA Quadro K4200 4GB • • • • • •
NVIDIA Quadro K5200 8GB • • • • • •
NVIDIA Quadro K6000 12GB • • • • • •
NVIDIA Quadro M2000 4GB 9 9 9 9 9 9
NVIDIA Quadro M4000 8GB 9 9 9 9 9 9
NVIDIA Quadro M5000 8GB 9 9 9 9 9 9
NVIDIA Quadro M6000 12GB and 24GB 9 9 9 9 9 9
NVIDIA Quadro P2000 9 9 9 9 9 9
NVIDIA Quadro P4000 9 9 9 9 9 9
NVIDIA Quadro P5000 9 9 9 9 9 9
NVIDIA Quadro P6000 9 9 9 9 9 9
NVIDIA Quadro GP100 9 9 9 9 9 9
High Performance GPU Computing
NVIDIA Tesla K40 8 8 8 8 8 8
System RAM
Minimum (GB) 4GB 4GB 4GB 4GB 4GB 4GB
Maximum (GB) (see footnote 14) 1024GB 1024GB 1024GB 1024GB 1024GB 1024GB
Hard Disks
All Supported SAS Disk Drives 2 2 2 2 2 2
All Supported Solid State Drives • • • • • •
All Supported SATA Disk Drives less than 3TB • • • • • •
Supported SATA Disk Drives 3TB and larger 3 3 3 3 3 3
All Supported USB Drive Keys • • • • • •
HP Z Turbo Drive and Z Turbo QuadPro PCIe-attached storage 4 4 4 4 4 4
Intel 750 Series PCIe Storage 4 4 4 4 4 4
Network Cards (no modem support)
Intel Ethernet I210-T1 PCIe NIC • • • • • •
I350-T4 Quad-Port 1GbE NIC • • • • • •
Intel 361T 1GbE dual port PCI NIC • • • • • •
Intel Ethernet X520 10GbE dual port PCIe NIC • • • • • •
Intel X540 10GBase-T Dual Port Adapter (RJ45 -Copper) • • • • • •
Intel 7260 802.11a/b/g/n PCIe WLAN NIC • • • • • •
Intel 8260 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac & Bluetooth PCIe 10 10 10 10 10 10
Onboard Components
Integrated Intel SATA sSATA Controller 2 2 2 2 2 2
Integrated LSI 2308 SAS Controller with RAID 2 2 2 2 2 2
Wired LAN - Intel i210 Gigabit Ethernet • • • • • •
Wired LAN - Intel i218LM Gigabit Ethernet 7 7 • • • •
Onboard Audio (Realtek ALC221 codec) • • • • • •
Onboard SATA RAID 2 2 2 2 2 2
Add Ons
LSI 9270-8i 8-port SAS 6Gb/s ROC RAID Controller & iBBU9 battery backup
2 2 2 2 2 2
unit
ThunderboltTM PCIe card (see footnote 15)
1394b Firewire PCIe card • • • • • •
Removable CD/DVD Media
HP DVD-ROM Drive • • • • • •
HP DVD RW Supermulti Drive 5 5 5 5 5 5
HP BD-RE (Blu-Ray writer) 5 5 5 5 5 5
Input/Output Devices (no spaceball support)
HP Scroll Mouse, USB • • • • • •
HP Standard Keyboard, USB • • • • • •
HP Keyboard and Mouse, PS/2 • • • • • •
TPM Module/ Smart Card (see footnote 16)
HP Media Card Reader • • • • • •
HP Printers 6 6 6 6 6 6
All Supported Monitors • • • • • •

footnote 1 - Typical Linux distributions support many possible localizations. If you're installing the OS yourself, you can make selections for language and keyboard layout during that process. For a pre-loaded Linux OS, similar
choices can be made during the "firstboot" process. In some cases, extra font packages may be available.
footnote 2 - Hardware RAID is supported using the LSI 2308 SAS (RAID 0/1/1e SATA & SAS) and the LSI 9270-8i (RAID 0/1/5/6/10 SATA & SAS). SATA RAID is supported on sSATA ports(0/1/5/10 SATA only).
footnote 3 - In general, single drives or volumes larger than 2.2 TB can only be fully accessed using GPT formatting. OSes listed can format GPT for the boot drive or volume but may require installation of UEFI boot support, and can
access GPT-formatted data volumes.
footnote 4 - The Z Turbo Drive PCIe-attached storage device has its own controller and is supported by the standard ahci kernel module in supported OSes. Z Turbo Drive G2 is an NVME device and is supported by the kernel NVME
module. Z Turbo QuadPro is an enclosure for several NVME devices. Updates are needed for SLED11 SP4 and SLED12 SP1 to operate with these NVME devices. Other NVME storage devices have similar requirements.
footnote 5 - Linux growisofs supports DVD+RW and Blu-ray media on the listed OSes.
footnote 6 - For more info about Linux driver support for HP printers, go to http://www.hplip.net.
footnote 7 - SLED 11/SP3 requires an update kernel to operate this on-board network interface properly. Please check with SuSE support for the appropriate update.
footnote 8 - The NVIDIA K40 is a GPU-compute device without graphics. The base OS will more or less ignore it. To make use of this device, the proprietary driver must be installed. The minimum driver version for support of K40 is
319.72.
footnote 9 - HP recommends the following minimum NVIDIA driver versions for M6000 12GB (346.47); M6000 24GB (361.28); M4000 and M5000 (352.41); M2000 (361.45.11); P2000, P4000, and GP100 (375.39); and P5000 and
P6000 (367.57).
footnote 10 - As of this edition of the table, only a few enterprise distributions have support for the Intel 8260 WLAN/BT combo device. Look for updates from the distributors.
footnote 11 - AMD Radeon Pro graphics cards are supported by the newer amdgpu-pro vendor driver. OS streams are supported at specific release version levels, starting with these: SLED 12 SP2; RHEL 6.8; RHEL 7.3; Ubuntu
14.04.5; Ubuntu 16.04.1. There is no amdgpu-pro driver for SLED 11.
footnote 12 - Correct operation with the "Broadwell" family of processors may require a later release of OS stream than the "Haswell" family. The following OS releases are known to be capable: SLED11 SP4, SLED12 SP1, RHEL 6.8,
RHEL 7.2.
footnote 13 - Get the latest drivers: "HP Installer Kit for Linux - HP Driver CD (or DVD) for Linux-distribution-name" ISO images from http://www.hp.com/support/z840. Under Download options, select Get drivers, software &
firmware. HP Workstations can be ordered with a variety of localization options that may vary by platform. The default in-box graphics drivers (e.g., nouveau and radeon) may not always handle newer graphics cards correctly. In
some cases, even OS installation must be done using a "basic mode" or by specifying a frame-buffer driver (e.g., "xdriver=fbdev").
footnote 14 - Issues have been observed with several distributions during system boot with 1TB of RAM. Often these seem to be associated with the in-box mode-setting graphics drivers (nouveau and radeon). Mode-setting can be
prevented by adding nomodeset to the kernel boot parameters.
footnote 15 - For more info about Linux driver support for HP printers, go to http://www.hplip.net.
footnote 16 - As of this edition of the table, only a few enterprise distributions have support for the Intel 8260 WLAN/BT combo device. Look for updates from the distributors.

862609-008 Released October 2018